Evening Star Newspaper, September 10, 1936, Page 22

QUINTUPLETSDRAW GOLD T0 ONTARIO Dionne Children Bring Mil- lions of Tourist Dollars to Province. A visit to Quintland, where the Dionne babies have changed the ways of life of the Ontario country- side, is described here in the first of a series of seven dispatches that will give a close-up view of the Callander scene and the chief ac- tors in it. BY IRA WOLFERT. Special Dispatch to The Star. ALLANDER, Ontario, Septem- ber 10 (N.AN.A)—A thou- sand miles away from where, innocent and unaware and frolicksome as cream-fed kittens, they bang tin cups against each other's heads, dump each other into the grass and battle each other for toys, the name of the Dionne quintuplets starts growing into samething more than a printed legend on a bus station window. The large, pale man in frock coat and striped pants, cold and pompous behind his pince-nez, leans forward in the club car of the northbound Pullman and says: “I'm a medical man by vocation, en iconoclast by avocation. I've passed Niagara Falls a hundred times. Never saw it once. Heard it, mever saw it. I passed right by the Grand Canyon. Never looked at it. Passed Callander maybe 50 times. Never saw the quints. Why should I stop and see them? A litter of kids. Is that any reason for me to stand on my head?” Some of the faces that stare back at him are shocked, some indignant. He laughs with sudden, surprising shyness. “I guess I'm too much of an iconoclast for you,” he says. “My friends call me the Bernard Shaw of Canada.” “I guess that's right” says the bright young lady with the sparkling eyes, “Take away Shaw's wit and that's what you would have left.” Third Visit to Quints. A tension is growing in the air and & weather-beaten, tough-muscled, gray-haired man takes the pipe out of his mouth for another sip of his Bcotch and soda and begins talking easily. “This,” he says, “will be my third look at the quints. I go up to that country for 6-pound bass and 10- pound muskies and pike that can blister a callous. But I wouldn't miss & peek at those kids. My wife would raise billyhell with me if I didn't tell her about them, and then I like to look at them myself. They've got something. “You take a look at one of them ©ff by herself and you say, ‘Now that’s & pretty little kid’ But when you see five of them all looking alike, all dressed alike, all doing the same thing—well, it's like nothing on this earth. It's fantastic. It gives you the idea that maybe you are living in & dream world after all. thing that gives you that idea is a pleasure I wouldn't deny myself.” This last with a sly look at the large reality that bulks behind the pince Zez across the aisle. The “Bernard Shaw of Canada” leans forward for some more icono- clasting and a third member of the group interrupts hastily with a story. He had been up in the lake country swimming and, near shore, had picked up a stone that he thought might be gold ore. Hastening back to his hotel, he met an acquaintance who insisted on introducing his wife. “Her husband is quite well off and she herself is an eminently sensible woman who will take a drink with you when she has to and will stand | up and trade smart cracks with the best of them. When she shook my hand, she transferred a rock from her right hand to her left. I thought ‘maybe she had picked up some ore, too, and I was plenty eager to get a look at it. But I saw that her dress had been stained where she had been holding the rock against it and when And any- | I finally got & mok-tth-thlu.x saw it was just a plain rock—one of those stones off the Dionne farm that 1s supposed to help you get children.” Declares Charm Worked. “Supposed?” said & woman, and launched esgerly into & circumstan- tial account of a friend who actually and incontrovertibly had been helped into twins by one of those stones sfter 13 childless years. Whereupon tne Bernard Shaw of Canada snorted a splash off the top of his yum col- lins and announced loudly that he was ready to go to bed. The train roared through a routine night—dark, shuttered houses, gloomy towns, baggage men idling sieepily on depot platforms—and then, as day climbed into the sky, the world out- side the car windows blinked awake and started northward. Cars with trailers, chauffeur-driven limousines, lizzies whose fenders hung like trem- | bling lips, a huge, darting army roll- ing swiftly into high and pointing their snouts northward. The train was passing through popular tourist country, but not since 1929 has it been so laden with both honey and bees. In Niagara Falls you hear the year has been the best since the boom- ingest of boom times. A taxi-driver seems to hit the reason neatly: *“I guess they got the depression licked somewhere in the country. But there’s an awful lot of people stop- ping on their way north io see the the quints.” Montrea! and Quebec are doing fine. Quiet, stately Ottawa has become practically a rubber-neck center. These are the cities along the route Eastern Seaboard travelers take to Callander. Windsor has an excite- ment in the blood after seven years of moribund placidity. Middle West- erners on their way to quintland pass through Windsor. And Sault Ste. Marie, entry point for tourists from the Far West, is right up there with the leaders. Business booming, people beaming, Muskokie’s $150-a-week rooms jam- med to the chandeliers, country con- stables wrestling with strange, new traffic problems, the waters around Callander fished out for 30 miles, prices of unimproved scrubland in bleak forest country kiting skyward, general store customers enduring long waits to buy groceries from harassed clerks, cracker barrel philosophers | driven home. These are some of the evidences of the Midas touch that seems to lie in the chubby hands of SWIM for HEALTH ADULTS, 40c CHILDREN, 25¢ Includes Towel and Locker INSTRUCTION 6 Lessons, $5.00 Individual Instruction LILLIAN CANNON English Channel Swimmer AHIASSADOR svnmmma [ LINcOLN AUTOMOBILES Current Models These cars are brand-new! Startling Reduction in Price for Immediate Sale. Your car will be accepted in trade on a very liberal basis. i—Limousine 1—17-Pass. Sedan 1—5-Pass. Sedan 1—2-Pass. Coupe Warfield Motor Co. 1727 Conn. Ave. Decatur 4300 Sy £ £ g g g H § g 5 DURING THE DON'T MISS THE OPPORTUNITY TO BUY BIGGS HANDMADE AUTHENTIC REPRODUCTIONS AT A 20% SAVINGS PRESENT SALE Chippendale Stretcher Base Wing Chair from a period about 1750. The finger-print legs and stretcher base of solid mahogany are typical of the period, with Biggs unusual upholstery construction of curled hair quilted into oil-tempered springs. Your selection of cover. Sale Price Regular price, $85.00. Buy Now for Future Delivery and Take Advantage of the Savings Offered in the Sale. « « o TERMS IF DESIRED . . . 1217 CONNECTICUT AVENUE BIGGS ANTIQUE CgM PANY THE EVENING STAR, five 2-year-old girls known clear around the world as Marie, Annette, Cecile, Bmilie and Yvonne Dionne. Jubilant, perhaps over-enthusiastic residents put it this way: Timber lifted us out of one depression, gold out of another, the railroads out of & third; and just when it seemed there was nothing left, along came the quints. Last year we thought the qrint boom was temporary. This year i¢ has doubled and looks permanent. What do the quintuplets mean ia mouey to the provinc2 of Ontario? John Hambleton, director of the gov- ernment’s Travel and Publicity Bu- reau in Toronto, has the golden fig- ures engraved in his memory. “In 1934,” he says, “the year the quints were born, tourists brough $51,- 000,000 into the province. In 1935, the year the quints took hold of the earth’s imagination, tourists spent $84,000,000 here. This year 10,000,000 tourists will spend at least $100,000,~ 000, which will make 1936 the equal of the best previous year in the province’s history. “Not all of that, of course, is quint money. As nearly as we can judge, about 20 per cent of it is. North Bay, the nearest town to Callander, which is not really s town, but a sort of township seat, is the gateway to the North country and always has been a railroad and tourist .center. But right up amongst them.” But that, according to Dr. Roy Allan Dafoe, “boss” of the babies and the Long Distence MOVING 2 by MAYFLOWER VANS GOAS? 10 COAST =Y SMITH'S TRANSFER AND STORAGE CO. 1313 You St. N.W. Nerth 3343 ODDS and ENDS From Our Rummage Sale Just @ few remaining pieces ot further reductions to assure their disposal All Sales Final. No Exchanges Nor Returns. Dresses second Floor 75 Reg. $2.98 to $5.95 Dresses 5 Cottons, eyelets, Bwiss, print batiste. 17 Dresses, light and dark; fagotting and smocking. $16.95 to $29.75 . 20 Reg. $25 Coats, 38 Lightweight fleece swag- gers, all colors. reg. $49.75 $19.95 and $25 __ 60 Reg. $5.98 to $7.98 Dresses % reg. $5.95 to 56 Fall Dresses, $3-29 ‘Tunics, princess and shirtwaist styles with cire braid, 14 to 44. 15 Dinner Dresses, chiffons and crepes, reg. --$5 Coats and Suits Third Floor 38 Reg. $19.75, $22.75 : and $25 Coats, 39 Lightweight, furred and plain, silk lined. 4 Sports Coats, light weight, with Wolf collars, 19 4 Coats, light weight, silk lined; reg. $19.95__$5 8 Suits, light weight, navy and block, reg. WASHINGTON’ D. ©, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1936. Put on Lincéln-Douglas Act. GREENSBURG, Pa,, September 10 candidate for President, said last nl[hth"ouldllkllomellllwfll dential candidates in debate. Ho told & meeting in Jeannette, near this Western Pennsylvania town: “We all would do s lot better if we would put on a Lincoln-Douglss act— if candidates for office would meet their opponents and debate the issues involved.” 4 originals at prices you'd expect to pay for inferior domestic_reproductions. A deposit holds your pur- chase. Memhm MAHALS LILIHANS SAROUKS KIRMANSHAHS KESHANS KESHAN SULTANABAD KIRMANSHAH A FEW EXAMPLES 9x12 9x12 9x12 9x12 9x12 10x20 15x25 11x17 $145 $169 $195 $215 $215 $535 $950 $635 All Other Rugs in Collection at Similar Reductions Take advantage of these low prices made possible by low foreign exchange rates. Prices are going up. These values cannot be duplicated. Manoukian Bros., Inc. Y in two distinct versions . . . word crown . . . 1332 CONNECTICUT AVE. THE hat that gives the fashion cue to the Avenue where it is created, suggests that smortness this Fall is first @ matter of individuality. There- fore, we present the world-famed “Fifth Avenue” (1) has the pointed, for- (2) @ new slont on the classic felt. Both man-tailored of superb Felt by Knox. Variety of new Fall colors . . . and every headsize $7-50 Other Knox Hats, $5 to $15 ® CHARGE ACCOUNTS INVITED @ Parking Service at Our Curb , . . Private Chaufleurs 15 Sports Coats, light weight ree gers; reg. $22.75 and $25 __ 2 Winter Coats, were $69.75_ 2 Winter Coats, were $69.75_ 47 reg. $25 to 8{9.75 27 reg. $59.75 to $§9A75 Coats and Suits Coats and Suits $15 $27 Lightweight. furred d Choi f the h 'i“l ‘Diain. silk lined. ‘Galvas and Pox trims, Fur Coats r1hid Ficor Size 16 Brown Coney Windbreaker, Corduroy lmed reg. $49.50 $27 Size 14 Brown Coney Jacket, reg. $29.50_ Size 16 Black Coney Trotteur, reg. $59.50 Size 14 Leopard Cat Swagger, reg. $139 Size 16 Muskrat Fitted Coat, reg. $110 Size 14 Ermine-Dyed Lapin Strollcr reg. $89.50, $47 Size 16 Kaffe Broadtail-Processed Lamb with Fox, reg. $159.50 $65 Size 20 A:umbled Jor Mink, reg. $129_ Size 14 Brown Caracul Swagger, reg. $99.50 Sizes 14 to 16 Beaver-Dyed Coney Stroll $89.50 Size 16 Raccoon Swagger, reg. $129___ Size 18 Black Caracul, Genuine Silver Fox Colé«;r, Street Floor Clearance 1,000 Prs. Reg. 89c & $1.25 Silk Hosiery Knee-Hi and full length, discon- 5 9C tinued styles of & famous brand. Sheer chiffons, semi-chiffens and service weight. 600 Prs. Reg. $1 & §1.50 300 Reg. $1 & $1.19 Gloves, 59¢| | Blouses, 33c¢ it Crisp organdies. Mlua and TARE and chatoiset ine i 250 Cotton Dresses and Pajomas, guaranteed fast colors, reg. $1 and $1.19 49¢ ond Ends, Gloves, Bags, Beach Caps, etc., reg. 50c to $1 10c 30 Slnps, Panne satin and crepe, dark and post;lls 12 Comn lloms reg. $2 and $3 60 Crinkle Crepe chm, reg. $2. 100 Pairs Anklets, all colors, reg. 59¢ o 79¢c__-19¢ 15 Girdles and Corseles, reg. $3.95 and $5 $2.90 nd $3 .90 33 Brassieres, reg. 59¢c_ ... RALEIGH HABERDASHER THE WOMEN'S SHOP, 1310 F STREET TOMORROW...9:15A.M.to 6 P.M. FRIDAY CLEARANCE in the Raleigh Haberdasher Women’s Shop © Al Seles Finol. Quantities Limited, Subject to Prior Sale ® 1 HARRIS TWEED COAT; hand-tailored; blue her- ringbone; size 14. Originally $39.75, now. 9.7 1 MISSES’ PRINTED CHIFFON DRES! Was $10.95, now. 1 SUMMER EVENING GOWN; size 16. Was $16.95, “‘l 3 KNITTED SUITS; 2-piece; green, dusty rose, aqua; sizes 18 and 20. Were $12.95, now. 3 SAMPLE COATS; trimmed with Persian Red Fox, Cross Fox; black and brown; sizes 14 to 16. Were $70.75 to $89.75. oo - $68.00 3 SKIRTS of Shetland yarn; navy, aqus, gray; sises 14, 16 and 20. Originally $4.95. -- $195 2 SPORT JACKETS of Shetland wool 12 and 18. Originally $7.95 and $10.95, now. 9 RIDING VESTS of cotton gabardine and printed linen; white, yellow, green; sizes 14 to 18, inally $3.95 to $5 now. 4 COTTON RIDING SHIRTS; sizes 34 to et R R SRR SR $1.38 5 PAIRS COTTON GABARDINE BREECHES AND JODHPURS; white; sizes 12, 14, 18, Were $3.95.. $1.95 4 MISSES’ BLACK SATINS and sheer jacket dresses; sizes 12, 16 and 18. Were $16.95, now._.._$12.95 2 ALLIGATOR BAGS; brown and black. Were $10. $5.95 1 IMPORTED BRITISH TOPCOAT; black and ‘white, size 16. Originally $49.75, now. @ CHARGE ACCOUNTS INVITED © Parking Service at Our Curd . . . Privete Chaufours RALEIGH HABBRDASHBR 5 THE WOMEN'S SHOP, 1310 F STREET Y Ends Saturday at 6 P.M. ADVANCE SALE PERSIAN LAMB . block ond gray fa- vorite of foshion . . lends its magical power to the collor and pockets of this chic 1937 mode. The graceful silhouette owes its trim lines and gentle flore to the softly flowing wool fobric. Sizes 12 to 20. % FUR-TRIMMED COATS ‘WO short days ond it's over . . . this extraordinary Advance Coot Sale that gives you enormous savings on the loveliest coats you'll see this season. They ore from the world’s foremost designers . . . individual in fashion . . refreshingly new n sleeve and shoulder treatments, Their furs are regal . . . rich, full, luxurious. Their beouty and quality con be op- preciated only by seeing them. Such coats will be duplicated after this sale ot $10 to $20 more Buy now . . . SAVE! TO $195 . SILVER FOX « + . the most coveted ot fors . . . is effectively fosh- ioned a lovely collar that can be worn in sev- eral striking ways. The fox head is ottached for en added touch of sumptuous- ness. The fabric is befit- ting on associate of Silver ‘ 4 WAYS TO PAY FOR YOUR COAT 1. Extended Payment: No Down Payment. Four Months to Pay. No Interest or Carrying Charges. First Payment Due September 15. f 2. Loy-Away Plan: A $5 deposit will hold any $58 coat os long os November 1. You may make intermediate payments between now and Novem- ber 1. 3. Six - Months Plan: On coats ot $79.75 or over, ar- rangements may be made (with o small service charge) to _spread payments over a pefiod of six months. 4. Reguler Monthly Ac- count: Bill rendered Novem- ber 1, poyable in November. ©® CHARGE ACCOUNTS INVITED o "Perking Service ot Our Curd , . , Privals Cheugenrs RALEIGH HABERDASHER THE WOMEN'S SHOP, 1310 F STREET