Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-04-09 | Page 11 | Have You Met Him?

1 0 I Have You Yau Met l Him 0 I IHA HA HAVE AVE VE you ever met your double Somewhere Some Some- J j where walking the earth at tit this very veryln moment ln ment is a person who is such an exact d of you that brought together few t ld tell you apart Occasionally your att at- at t t is called to the law of duplicates when rs discover and nd print pictures of the doubles of famous politicians movie stars and You of course have had the experience ofa of-a stranger mistaking you for some one living living living liv liv- ing at a distance Sometimes the resemblance Is Is so striking that the stranger thinks y yOu u ire joshing when you inform him that he is mis mis- istak is- is tak taken n. n The real reat you you that that mysterious and indefinable inner something That includes though thought and character sand and nd emotion emotion Is Is never duplicated exactly th though ugh occasionally each of us meets a person whose hose viewpoint is so strikingly similar to ours that it bewilders us An extraordinary case of mistaken identity w was was' s. s exposed the other day in England Arthur Arthur Arthur Ar Ar- thur Collins arrested by Scotland Yard detective detectives detectives detec detec- tives tive on the charge of being an army deserter was vas found to tie be e the double of the man man wanted He even ven had the same name lived on the same street followed the same trade In civilian life and joined the army on the same day Their fingerprints differ The Thelong Thelong long arm of coincidence in this case ase operated oper oper- ted t to an extent never equaled in fiction W We not only have living Jiving duplicates duplicate but bilt we weare weare are Ire duplicates of people who live in the past Old settlers have often observed ed this this how how a aboy aboy aboy boy or girl is almost an exact double of some ancestor of a fe few generations since Photography is a comparatively recent Invention invention invention tion so few fe of us can check back and find our ur double of long ago In families where oil oi paintings have been preserved for several generations the recurrence of looks is almost almost al- al most universally recognized It would be great sport to turn the clock back a few centuries and come face to fae face With With the man or woman whose features build and mannerisms have cropped out in m us Even more more fascinating would ie be to turn the clock t the e eother other way the persons of the di distant dis di tant future who wilt will be doubles of us who are Jre living today This recurrence of doubles generation after genera generation o probably is what the started tar ed the oriental in n reincarnation