WOMEN’S WORLD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 156, 3 June 1937, Page 13

WOMEN’S WORLD

Mrs TV. Thomson,' of Palmerston North, is in Auckland. Mr and Mrs B. Keillor, of Palmerston North, have staying with them Mrs J. Landels, of Hastings. Mrs B. F. Barlow ha.s her niece, Miss TV. Bowden, of Ashburton, staying with her. Miss Edith Huddleston, who has been staying with her mother, Mrs Huddleston, of Timaru, lias returned to Palmerston North. Mr and Mrs A. M. Brodie and Mies Jean Brodie, of Tomoana Bead,~Huntings, are visiting Palmerston North. Miss A. M. Kearns, Plunket nurse, has returned to Palmerston North to take up her duties, after having been in Dunedin for the past eleven months. Mrs W. Wilson, “Whitburn,” Feeding, has as her guests for the BaylissVVUson wedding Mr and Mrs J. Wort, of the South Island, and Miss N. Bagnail, Wellington. Miss Lexie McDonald has returned to Palmerston North after having fulfilled an engagement in presenting a group of ballads from scation 2VA, Wellington. Miss McDonald is gifted with a tine singing voice, and many congratulations were accorded her on the success of her performance last week. Miss Joan Patou, the. clever young Palmerston North ’cellist, has also 'received an engagement to play over the air, and will be heard this evening from 21'A in four solos.

Three years ago last Friday five baby girls were born to the wife of a poor French-Canadian farmer of (Jallandar, Ontario. Mr and Mrs Dionne already had five children before the arrivai of the quintuplets but this event did not increase their domestic difficulties as the children have been made wards of the State, and a special hospital has been erected for them near their home. The quintuplets have twice been seen in motion pictures, and have earned a great deal of money from this source. Since their birth the children have been in the care of Dr. A. R. Dafoe, and although the smallest of the babies weighed only 21b. 4oz. at birth, and the largest only lib. more, the qtlin: triplets to-day are little smaller than normal children of their own age. It has been estimated that quintuplets occur only once in 07,000,000 births, and of the 33 cases recorded in medical history during the past 500 years the Dionnes are the first to survive. More recently sextuplets were born to a Harijan woman living in the Punjab, and five of these- have survived.

(By “Nanette.”)