The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-05
D|ONNE CUNTS GET BRAND NEW
 BABY BROTHER
Born at 8:l5 Last Night in Farmhouse Where Sis=
 terS Came Into World

Calender, Ont, April 5-(UP)- The Dionne quintuplits have new baby brother.
 He weighs seven and a half pounds and has brown eyes. He was born at 8:15 last night in the same farmhouse where, on the night of May 28, 1884, Mrs. Oliva Dionne, 24-year-old farmwife and mother of five, gave birth to the world famous girls, Yvonne, Annette, Cecile, Em- ilie and Marie.
 doing nicely" today. Mrs. Dionne was attended by Dr. I. loyal of North Bay. He said that it was 8 breech delivery but that the mother survived it in good condition.
 Dionne was present, holding Oliva, Jr., 21-monthS-old, on his knee. Dr. loyal also attended the birth of Ol- iva, Jr., the first baby born to Mrs. Dionne after the quintuplets,'
 The quintuplets were in bed in the Dafoe nursery across the road from the farmholse and were not advised of the arrival until today.
 Two nurses, Jacqueline Noel, who has been helping care for the quin- tuplets for two years, and Claire Trembly, assisted Dr. loyal.
 The doctor said that Dionne re- mained "very quiet" durin the birth and made no comment on it.
 The new baby was the Dionnes' 18th, although only twelve are living. The quintuplets have been divorced from the rest of the family as wards of the Ontario gov- ernment and they live in the nur- sery, named for Dr. Ray Alan Da- foe, who arrived at the farmhouse during their birth and cared for them afterwards.
 The household was equipped ef1- ciently for last nights birth, in contrast with the night in 1884 when Dionne hurried home with the doc- tor belatedly just as the fourth of the quintuplets, Emile, was being born, and a midwife, Mime. Ben Lebel, and Mrs. Dionne's aunt, Mime. Alex Legros, were struggling to att tend the mother and at the same time save the three girls already born.
 The village priest, Father Daniel Routhier, who went to the Dionne cabin the next day to give extreme unction to Mrs. Dionne, the aunt having already baptised the five babies by sprinkling water on them from the kitchen dipper, said then that Mrs. Dionne, besides being in critical condition was despaired of life because q can't take care of so many"
 The mother was later to learn of the fame and riches that the quintuplets would bring. The quin- tuplets' income was estimated few weeks ago by Judge J. A. Valin, one of the three guardians, at $17,- 900 a year in addition to large sums from royalties and testimonials. The parents, while not sharing in that income, have made siZeable sums by selling souvnirs to persons who came from all parts of the world to see the five girls.
 The farmhouse has been equipped with modern convenienceS since the quintuplets' birth, when the family was almost destitute, and Dionne barely was able to eke out an exis- tence from the 60 tillable acres of his 30O-acre farm, most of which is covered with rock and pine.
 Dionne is six years older than his wife, who is now 28. They were married on Sept, 15, 1925, when Mrs. Dionne was 16, and have had 13 children one of whom, a boy, died at birth. The others are Ern- est,11, Rose, 10, Theresa, g, Daniel, 6 and Pauline, 5.