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Title: Illuminated Fish Bowl
Description: Victoria Daily Times (Victoria, B.C.), 10 February 1936, p. 2, within the unsigned news report "New Park at Dionne Home (Continued from Page 1)". Press summary, dated New York, Feb. 10, of Alfred Adler's article on the Dionne quintuplets in Cosmopolitan (March 1936).
Author: Alfred Adler
URL: https://adler.school/archivo/adler/entrevistas/original/1936-02-10%20Illuminated%20Fish%20Bowl
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<!-- Victoria Daily Times, Monday, February 10, 1936, p. 2, col. 3-4. Sección final de la noticia compuesta «NEW PARK AT DIONNE HOME (Continued from Page 1)», sin firma (despachos de agencia). Se omiten las secciones anteriores de la noticia, que no tratan de Adler: plan del gobierno de Ontario de crear un parque público y alojamientos para turistas junto al hospital de las quintillizas en Callander, visita del ministro Dave Croll, protesta de Oliva Dionne por la expropiación de sus tierras. La primera parte, en la p. 1, no está en el material. -->

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### "ILLUMINATED FISH BOWL"

New York, Feb. 10.—The Dionne quintuplets should exchange "their illuminated fish bowl at Callander" for the obscurity of separate homes and schools, says Dr. Alfred Adler, noted Viennese psychologist, if they are to develop into useful members of human society.

Treating the five little sisters of northern Ontario alike in every respect, he writes in The Cosmopolitan Magazine today, is not conducive to the development of the individual.

He suggests they should be dressed in different colors, given different toys and even different food.

"They should find playmates outside," he added. "They should have frequent contacts with their brothers and elder sisters, and as little fuss as possible should be made about the fact they are quintuplets. Every manifestation of their nascent individuality should be encouraged. The future requires more drastic changes."

Psychologically, Dr. Adler writes, the separation from their family is not an asset. He recalls the parents may visit the quintuplets every day, but contends their influence and their privileges are restricted.

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*Fuente:* transcripción a partir de la imagen de la página (Old Fulton NY Post Cards, fultonhistory.com, «Victoria BC Daily Times 1936 02-10_0001»): *Victoria Daily Times*, Victoria (Columbia Británica), 10 de febrero de 1936, p. 2, sección «"Illuminated Fish Bowl"» de la noticia «New Park at Dionne Home». Se corrigió el OCR de la plataforma cotejándolo con la imagen. El artículo de Adler resumido aquí, «Should the Quins Be Separated?», *Cosmopolitan*, marzo de 1936, no está en el material.