Only Chance

Last week Ontario's Provincial Secretary Harry C. Nixon wrote a letter to Oliva Dionne, father of Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie, Yvonne and several other less famous children, inviting him to bring the quintuplets to Toronto on May 22 to see the King and Queen. The letter offered the use of two private railroad cars, seats at a royal luncheon and official reception, use of Premier Hepburn's private office "when the girls are not in the private car on the tracks"; and ended with a reminder that "this will probably be the only opportunity your daughters would ever have to see Their Majesties."

Papa Dionne didn't see why the mountain should have to go to Mohammed. He was for holding up his decision. "You never can tell what may happen," he said. Said Allan Roy Dafoe, the country doctor who brought the girls into the world: "Anything may happen." The girls practiced curtsying for a cameraman. This week Papa Dionne finally said yes to his daughters' first personal appearance outside Callander, Ont.

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