Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-06
BY United Press Leased Wire

hOLLlS, OkIa.- aug. o.-NeaflE
one quarter of million persons
Journey yearly to little one-street
out here III oklahoma for the pur
pose OF seeing the only four quad
rupIet daughters in the world.
They are Roberta, Mona, Mary
and Leoia keyes, quadruplet daugh-
tefs OF Il family VINO gracefully per-
mt the crowd to come ana STARE,
uut VINO nave firmly refused any
SORT OF expectation Ior tnelr glrle
IUr tong yeais.
Uniy :. uttIc while ago the Reyes
turueu uown Il o-,oVo u year vaU-
ueVAle otter.
- have to stop living the lazy
life II nay glrls wenC on the stage,
SAYS their mother, Mrs. Jane heycs,
eAplaInIug that. the entire manTge-
lnent OF tne home is budgeted &aehg
tue Iour daughters. wnIic she herseI
sits ana rochs and reads and bosses
ana Inanks Il kind providence which
sent her the only four quadrupiet
daughters III the world.
f1ad t'our Birthday Cakea
The ncyes girls had their twelfth
birthday party not very long ago
Il party with four cakes frosted III
pink and blue and, green and yell
low, four blazing candles atop each
cake, and four girls as alike as the
proverbial peas in "a pod, blowing
out the candies with one mighty
puff.
Twelve years ago when a startled
father first beheid his four daugh-
tiers and frantically attempted to
figure out a way to tell them apart
he decided that they must always
pe put to bed or seated at table III
the same order, Roberta on the out
side, then Mona, then Mary, and
then Leola.
Time has changed many thing III
the Reyes household, but never that
sitting and standing and sleeping
arrangement.
When the quadruplets 90 to
school or church or to the movies,
it 5 Roberta outside, then Mona,
Mary and Leola.
=. it 5 worked, - says Dad Reyes,
Il We almost got 'em learned by
now"
At table, in an auto, at the NOV
les, at a party, or, awaiting turns
to be spanked, it S Roberta, Mona,
Mary Leola.
Even fun-loving girls that they
are, the quadruplets have never
dared try kidding Dad and Nom
by forming in reverse or hlggledy-
piggledy. That has been made the
arch crime, and unforgivable SIN,
of the family.
Twelve years ago Ma Reyes
WINGED a little at the job OF rear
ing four all,of-a-size daughters. She
was in the market for sympathy.
Today, surveying four healthy
happy, sweeping and busting and
baking and washing daughters
She tells other mothers that II they
want an easy life, the thing to a.
is acquire quadruplet daughters.
Two Are Exactly Alike
Although all four girls look SO
much alike that even their parents
can not tell one from the othei
of them, Mona and Roberta, look Sc
much alike that they can't tel
themselves apart.
Once upon time in a "palac'
of mirrors at an amusement park
Roberta walked smack into a mir
ror, thinking she was meeting
Mona.
Health for their daughters haI
! been the main concern of the girls
parents, and education, with specia
: attention TO music and dancing
/ came next.
! They have high marks in school
! love TO dance and cook and swim
! and play with dolls, and, in short
! are just as normal as any girls wht
! have no doubles and don't have t
walk first or second from the righ
in order to keep from being mlxel
up.
There's hot Of difference be