Evening star., 1936-09-11
BY IRA WOLFERT.

the Calldnder scene and the chief
actors in it.
BY IRA WOLFERT.
CALLANDER, Ontario, September
lo.-The huge crowds rutting the
broad new road across forest land
to the Dafoe nursery 3 miles from
here, frightening bear into deeper
eeclusion, stampeding moose into
crashing, blundefing fight through
brush, shaking crows loose from grain
nelds so successfully that scarecrows
here are practically extinct, offer
curious study.
They start coming at dawn and at
midnight stragglers still 60 humping
along the hills to scout out the land
for the morrow's daytime inspection
of the contents of a play yard. One
hundred more than 1000 one sunny
day, So more than 1000 the next. Ten
fewer than 5000 one gray and wind
whipped day, more than 5000 the
next. Twice as many this year as
last and more coming every day. One
hundred forty-five thousand in July.
Two hundred thousand in August.
From Montana and Louisiana, from
Vermont, New York, Arizona, Mexico,
Hawaii, Alaska, from Charleston
plantations and Chattanooga slums.
from Oklahoma oil towns and Oregon
farms, from all the thronged areas
Of the Continent, they come to this
lonely, bleak spot for a one-minute
look at five children whose single
claim to riches-$500 900 worth at
present-and such worldwide fame
IS few have ever possessed, Is that
they we're born at the same time and
therefore are Of interest to science.
Manner Is Changed.
On the way in, this huge crowd
Is such a one as stands before the
ticket box of any side show. Some
are skeptical, some eager, some mock
ing and some look as If they had
been dragged by the ears to keep
their wives and children company.
On the way out the skeptical, the
knocking and the unwilling have van
4shed. You see yellow, sick-looking
old men, whose eyes shine and from
whose mouths pour tumultuously the
happy syllables of excitement. There
are women whose lips works, whose
cheeks are wet with tears and chill
dren whose faces are vibrant with a
shouted eagerness. And there are, as
IN every gathering at what has become
. shrine, the neurotics-those who
roll in the dust and shrek, who fall
to their knees and pray out loud and
IN public.
None-not the most normal and
phlegmatic-is unmoved. After a
searching, eager, hungry, literally
momentary look at the quintuplets,
most seem merely satisfied, as on full
filling an ambition or acquiring q new
topic for dinner table conversation
But some are shaken profoundly.
Many Write Letters.
"And some-the Lord knows how
many-are changed permanently"
says DR.. Allan Roy Dafoe, the little
country doctor who puf1s his pipe for
hours every day over the letters they
write back to him.
Item: Letter from a woman in
Cleveland who had never wanted chill
dren until she had seen the quin-
tuplets. IT can't tell you how differ
ent my life has become now, how
much more full and happy 1t Is and
promises to remain forever"
Item: Letter from woman in Mil
Vaukee: MY husband and I agreed
our marriage was going to be differ
ent, that we were not going to I'LL
our house and lives with a litter of
sticky brats. But for all our plans,
our marriage started to 60 GRUMPY
around the edges and looked as If it
was going to be no different from
all the others that have ended up
miserably in Reno. We were up in
the North country for some outdoor
life and we stopped of to see why
such a fuss was being made over the
quintuplets. My husband
and I, we both thank God for them
now and for you who have made
them what they are today"
Birth of New Force.
It would seem, said the doctor, that
che birth was not only of quintuplets
but Of new, potent force in the
world
I'VE knew from the start that child
less women all over the world would
turn hungry eyes on the Dionne ba-
bies and that, If they could see what
they should see, the effect would be
good, wholesome and inspiring. It
gave us an unparalleled opportunity
to improve the lot of children every
where by demonstrating in the worlds
newspapers what scientific care could
do.
I'VE took five children whose start
In life was bad as it could well be.
They were only somewhere between
six and one-half and seven months
old when they were born. Six days
later, they weighed all together some
thing less than 10 pounds. We nursed
them, fed them, cared for them,
trained them, to give mothers an
idea Of what it's possible to do. Now
they are plump, happy kids who don't
cry when they fall or whine when
they are bumped, who cry and laugh
with the huge. ripe. bursting noises
OF children in sound health.
THE first proof we had Of what