The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-08
BY BRUCE CAPTION

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 Toronto, Ont, Nov 8--tn case you have ever wondered, Miss Yvonne Dionne is the brightest of the five fa nous quintupletS, according to tests made by psychologists.
 An elaborate study of the Quin. tuplets' mental development has been made by scientists from the University of Toronto, One of the series of studies aimed at finding out all the pertinent facts about the quintS, It's conclusions are sum marked In Q paper written by Dr. W, E. Blat2, director of St. Georges school for child study, in Toronto and his assistant, Miss Dorothy MilltchHmp,
 Dr. Blatz and Miss Milllohamp have studied the quintuplets over q period of two years, applying the tests devised by Dr. Arnold 0esell, famous Yale University psychologist, along with other tests,
 Their report to repeat, Is that al- though the sisters are almost iden- tical, physically, they arc very far from being identical, mentally.
 The way In which the scientists set out to determine the quints' rat- ing In the world of childhood makes an interesting story,
 When you set out to measure the mental stature and progress of baby whose chief concern in life Is getting It's big toe Into It's mouth, you can't adopt the same tactics you would use with a school age, Even when the child reaches the age of two or three, the job of finding out how much of mind 1t has and what 1t Is doing with 1t, is Q bit difficult. Examinations of the ordi- nary kind are out,
 | A Fine New Game pr, Blat2 and Miss Milliehamp, who started to work on the quints shortly before those engaging young ladies had passed their first birth days, took along as equipment Q few reams of paper, Q set of unused sheets of charting paper, and whole suitcase full of toys. The quints decided that this was going to be q flne new game, and entered Into the spirit of the thing with zeSt,
 First of al the psychologist wanted to test the quints' motor development -- their control over their muscles. By getting tho ans wers to a lot of questions that sound unimportant to the layman, they would learn whether the girls equipment of nerves and muscles were functioning In the proper team- work.
 So, from time to time, they sought to find out things like these:
 Could a l5-month-old quintuplet walk backward, If properly coaxed
 Could a quint at tho age of two pile six blocks up in a reasonably straight tower? (The quints could, did, and hated to quit0
 At 30 months, could e quint stand on one foot?
 At regular intervals over a period of two years the psychologists per- formed such tests, tabulating their findings and reducing the answers to a series of graphs,
 Next came the matter of adaptive behavior, which the quints accepted as something special in the way Of a lark. For 1t was here that Miss Millichamp unstrapped her suitcase of toys,
 Just Like Games
 Miss Millichamp would unstrap it. that is, if the quints didn't get hold of 1t first, For the five maids from Callander quickly learned that talk ing these tests was just like playing games with delightful toys, and as soon as she showed up with her suit case they would cluster around her impatient to get the thing away from her and open 1t up.
 Scientific Dignity Upset All of this was just little trying to her professional dignity. A psy. chologist is suppoed to be a cold. blooded and hard-boiled seeker after truth, capable of administering ever the most bizarre of tests with ( straight face. But when she got 2 quint at the table and began thu tests she could maintain her pro. fcssional alloofness no more thar any one else.
 Look at that picture" says Dr Blatz, indicating photo of Mis! Millichamp putting small Dionnt through her paces. You're supposed to be objective and international And what are you doing? You're