CURIOSITIES ABOUT TWINS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 57, 4 September 1937, Page 27

CURIOSITIES ABOUT TWINS

i'Afc KossaJl, England, in 1.9Q6, there were four brothers in fee game class it! school, Tjrjio hacl'aH Wen born in the same ye«r~twd jn January and c two in De<?e?nber> says a writer, in the "Cape Times," Twenty-seven-yea^old Mrs., H. E. Bennett, wife of a hotelkeeper, pea* Obncaster, also gave birth to two gair s Pf twin! jn one year, once two i^Ms and ■one* a boy and a gjrl. On si<teo,f the family, within the last six g*neraitlon?, Js there any pre. Vious reQOf<J pf twjns.

"A farm^r'n'wife, Mrs, William Shook, 4f} Ann Artec*.(Michigan, V.S-A-), has four pairs o| twins, jn addition to four oilier children, Her eldest son, aged § recently . became the father of ns. .*,-.', . ....

.Only.thir.ty out of a hundred twins reiemble each, qther in Jqoks, ability, afld behaviour. , . . , ' r- Twins were recently born within three months of each other on a farm near Worcester (Spilth Africa). On February, 20 a coloured, woman gaye birth to a daughter, who lived only a idvf hours. On M.3# 10 » normal boy was born. Doctors, explained that the two children wetet twins, the eldei' of which was born prematurely.1

Several, cases have: been reported, of parents unable to distinguish be^ tween their own. twins,

Twins have often been attacked at exactly the same time by the ?ame illness even when grown up and living fat from one another. Francis Galton has recorded the case of twins aged 23, who suffered from toothache. Each had 'to have exactly the same tooth extracted. Of Other twins be has related that one suffered from dysentery in London and that the other, several hundred miles s»way, developed the same symptoms 24 hours later. In another case two twin brothers, living apart, always had attacks of'rheumatism at the same time and knew of the other's, indisposition before they could com* municate with each other.

In another report by Francis Galton, he mentions the frequent similarity of twins' ideas and describes the case of brother A, who, while travelling in Scotland, saw a set of champagne glasses which he bought as a surprise for his brother B. At the same time brother B was travelling in England and he bought another set of exactly the same pattern to surprise brother A on his return home,