MORE QUINTUPLETS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 64, 27 December 1935, Page 5

MORE QUINTUPLETS.

BIRTH IN NICARAGUA. (United Press Association—Copyright.) MANAGUA (Nicaragua), Dec. 25. The birth of quintuplets is reported at Matagalpa. They are three boys and two girls, and with their mother, Timotea Laines, are in good health. THE SIONNE BABIES. DIRECTING THE TRAFFIC. Telling of the eagerness of crowds to see the Dionne quintuplets, a writer in the “Spectator,” who has been visiting Canada says:—• Some 30 miles from Callender, in pleasant, undulating country, we came uponthe first sign of the famille Dionne—an advertisement of a Dionne garage. A few miles later there was a direction-sign to “the Dionne babies.” At Callender an information bureau was crowned with five identically-dressed babies cut out in wood. . . The road ran for a mile through new Forest-like country, and suddenly opened out into a huge parking place. Two or three men with red flags were directing the traffic. North of the road stood the house of the Dionnes. . The hospital lay in a hollow to the south. There was no suggestion of a shrine about this prettilypainted L-shaped building. Indeed, one began to think of a prison camp, since the hospital enclosure was surrounded by a high wire fence, with three strands of barbed-wire running along the top. The hospital and its courtyard were shot off inside the enclosure by another wire fence. There were five perambulators in the shade of the balcony. Outside the gates to the lower half of the enclosure a crowd was already gathering, although the children would not he on view for a full half-hour. At l p.m.—zero hour —there were about 500 people and 100 cars. As the moments went by, more spectatois poured out of a large wooden shanty. This place carried two Union Jacks and a sign: “Madame 'Legros and Madame Lebel, niidwives at the biitli of tho Dionne quintuplets, invite you to a full-course French-Canadian dinner, including pork and beans, I rencli Shanty style, an old-fashioned French meat pie, and a green apple pie.”