TWINS WHO THINK ALIKE

Evening Star, Issue 18145, 8 December 1922, Page 9

TWINS WHO THINK ALIKE

SAME MARKS AT SCHOOL. Absolute similarity of brain, far more remarkable than the comparatively common similarity of feature, is the distinguishing mark of Willie and Frankie Allen, the 85-year-old Windsor twins, who have completely baffled their form master at the county school. At .the end of their first fortnight they bad received exactly the same number of marks (166), and were bracketed thirteenth in a form of twenty-eight. These marks were secured for eight different subjects, in none of which was there a difference of more than three points; while in history, arts, physics, arithmetic, and geography they secured the same total.

I am assured by their father, who owns The Crisper’s Inn, Grove road, Windsor, that they never work together, says a writer in a London paper. They were both wearing the red and green school tie when I called, and each was clad in grey stockings, shorts, and a little dark grey jacket. At first they were equally tongue-tied!, They both found speech at the same moment, however. How do you spell “ acknowledged ”? I asked them. They chanted the correct r eply in chorus. _ And how do you spell “ accommodation”? They responded simultaneously from the opposite ends of the room. Each ought to be able to know what the other is thinking, but both denied awkwardly that they could.

At games Willie prefers cricket, and Frankie’s first choice is Rugby football. This was the sole distinction 1 could draw after twenty minutes’ questioning. Both seem to be confirmed woman-haters.

‘Tiger Tim’ is their mutual first choice in literature. Neither disapproves of any known form of food, though Willie'is said to be able to eat more.

“ What do you propose to be when you frow up?” I asked Willie. “I don’t now," came the reply, after much thought. Frankie, after a similar period of deliberation, was equally at a loss to know how he would spend manhood’s days.