Show r C T I I II Asa ks u w e h ut i e 3 Pretty Hilton Sisters t tv s r v Joined Yeta a h Yeth Together and Yet of oft h R tt Ch n 5 t C Cn 2 r R Managing To Be j jR Very e l l Satisfied r r i N Nl l A Their Lot r fe With r 1 y n t a at t 1 t 4 a d dy 2 I I 4 I rt k z V i iz k d z 4 y I J t a y e er r 1 2 e r pp SPINE W s seve eve l e t e x L d dS S s l iw t a fa etc Ste f Ah T y 44 L 1410 b r I 1 1 N Nc 1 1111 rs rsc 3 c pd s J s S Son I ye 4 I Iy y s 1 r The parted never twins at work worl in the kitchen one attending to food a to 0 on the gas range while the other peels the potatoes y x c 5 a a t ty ears eara ago to in Brighton SIXTEEN S England the fond to father-to bo be of ot the famous Hilton Siamese h wins anxiously up and do down don n outside the bedchamber of his wife He was waiting to hear announced a acry cry sery cry happy event Finally the door opened and the doctor doctorin In craIgo craige appealed He lIe seemed flus flus- flustered flustered puzzled embarrassed alarmed the matter asked the father Is something wrong rong wIth th my mys Ife s Hasn't the little one ar arrived safey alls all's All alls all's right with Mrs Milton the physician All aPs All als al's right with with- with he broke off oft then fin fin- finI fm I rapidly Its a girl Well said Papa Milton pleased and proud this is goodnews good news indeed I Ike girls nm am amery ery sery fond of them in fact I could not be the boorish kind of father who ho goe goes around pouting because its it's not nota nota nota a boy But lt you But But but sou ou see sec you ou see ice tho Iho doc dec doctor doctor tor faltered I meant to say say to to say say say- that THEY TIlEY arc are a gIrl erl Pa Ia Papa a Hilton puckered his Ills eyebrows c s The tte They t e he repeated Doctor do you ou men mea mean to say t y that Im I'm the daddy d cf s fine pair of twin girls Thi is better and aid better I always alays adored tins and besides it was as natural to expect There hale ha been Leen a dozen doun pans pails sit III my Ife family amlY and she the l I is a t tam twin 10 her her-elt lier elf Im I'm delighted The more the menler 1 The doctor dodor held up his 1115 hand Walt Wait Wait wait till you hale ha heard heald all ull he said sl a bit Int huskily Y You ou dont don't under under- understand stand land Mrs Hilton has just JURt become be ome the tho mother of girl and twins twins and they nie ai m e JOined together These Thel e arc are two of them and yet et or orly Iy one I This was the little drama which at- at at attended tended the th arrival arn al of the this most notable pair of Siamese twins ever born into the world At once the youngsters grand grand- grandmother mother gland mother and father and good Aunt clustered round their pretty lacy bassi bassinet net for a family consultation Ise Il l e heard of Eng and Chang the Chinese twins tWillS but I ne nc cr er thought such things happened in respectable English famIlies said laid gravely r troubled Poor little doomed guts gills doomed to go eo ugh Jugh life inseparably in bound to each Poor things and and such uch pretty darlings dai tool I sighed papa Then kindly sensible Aunt Edith camo c m hotly to their rescue raid said she the These precious preciou darlings dont don't need any crocodile pity pty They are arc beautifully formed straight of back bach and delicately curved in their eo weI limbs They're such uch health healthy little ras ras- rasI rascals cals Gals I i Just Jilt count up their blessings and ond you'll see there are thouSAnds of more unfortunate un- un unfortunate unfortunate fortunate girls born into tho world orld e eCI e cn CI y r r da day dai These darlings will never know what hat it is to be lonesome Each will al hale ha a deal dear sIster lister close by to keep up her spirits Of course there will be tome SOniC unusual But well we'll meet these as no we e w reach them In the meantime e should thank God that these babies arrn armed ed hero both shire alle all e Often t twins tinS inS dont don't you ou to In that moment good Aunt r Edith adopted these babies for her own ow-n fort always A little later latel when hen w hen their mother died the complete care of them became beame bc hers And when hen their father died ir in m the tho War Aunt Edith was as made their legal guardian In the very beginning the he ohe studied her hert t 0 little nieces They were ere she found joined by more than eight inches of n mixture of flesh and muscle and bony material which grew rew out of f their thur th lr backbones Aunt Edith took then them to a noted German specialist to ta see SeO if he could not separate the sisters titters These two to little gills gals art are two t separate individuals III in one body Lody he sOld end aid after long Ions study of the case cae I e hale studied other deviations flom the th normal such os as t e Only eight pairs of called so-called so Siamese tWinS twine have grown crown to maturity In the entire hl history tory of medicine All AIl have hwe been rather below par mentally But these children show es Cry e cry indication of developing into mentally keen heen physIcally sally cally beautiful little ladles ladies Now my dear Mr Mn Mrs Meters Meyers IS positive in sit such suh u h as ai I 1 have to perform upon them When an attempt was las made to serer sc tho the famous Cuban Siamese hun twins the life Ilfe of one had to be sacrificed I sery cry much fear that If I used the knife on them one little HIlton sister would have to gue gise e her life Info litand and the other go on living alone I mut decline to do this I operation operation I not care to undertake the risk Aunt Edith made mode no further effort to call in 10 the aid of surgery From that moment she he set herself to the task of ordering life Ide in double portions for the tho gIrls who ho were ere inexorably joined to- to together together to together gether of all she had to settle the tho problem pI m of dress When DaIsy Dany the hand right twin and VIOlet the left dressed themselves in the morning of course they put on four sep sep- sep separate orate arate stock stockings lOgs But when it came to little chemises uses and other undergarments un del garments different arrangements had to be made Thero was that connecting eight inches of muscle and bone to cover from the tho and curious eyes C es Sj Su Aunt Edith decided that all the tho bod bodily II clothing of hel hei nieces should be b joined in the region of the backbone with witha ltha a co enne which resembled in rn shape hape the tho connection beh between een the tho gabs Ai As A the gress gre of course the tho f bulled ted U to ordinary little girls girl I r M ft jj JB III I I II Jf fI l i fj t I t r r Daisy and Violet Hilton the English Siamese twins who get as I s x much joy out of life in most ways as normal g gills gals ls but who are I r A determined never to marry even though their devoted aunt aunts s b 1 J n thinks it quite allright all right that they should biJ 1 Diagrammatic view of the anatomy of the Blazek twins slowing sl-owina how their bodies were joined in sucha such tuch a away way that they could not be separated without sacrificing one life Me When one twin died two years ago the theother theother theother other insisted on death too although an operation could have have saved hern her n t tn I iM i'M S hardly would d do n ACSa with Ith comfort for them By then Aunt Edith had moved to San Antonio Texas where here her husband Myer s had bought boucht a ranch There she had put Into c e ery room of that rambling ranch house a special sized double-sized chair Next she h had built a double sire bath bathtub bathtub bathtub tub In this the twins t early discovered Cred one great advantage of has hO ing been born together the ordinary person has tc te stretch and squirm to get every inch of ot the back bach properly scrubbed Daisy and Violet h Hilton ilton just took tool each others other's is ash ash cloth and washed each others other's bad back In perfect ease and comfort As At tho the girls grew they began to want to d dl do things like other tills gills In n San An- An AntOniO Antonio An Antonio tonio Uncle Myer rigged them up a lawn n tennis outfit where they spent long hippy hours in the sunshine un hine Violet playing first fint and then turning to give DaiS Daisy her chance Of course Aunt Edith intended that her girls iris should play the piano like all nice young ladies ladles Ad AJ Daisy is the right twin Daisy's en enforced forced place at th the piano made it necessary necessary sary for her always alwa's to play the treble ports parts Violet always the deep deep bass ac accompaniments ac- ac accompaniments But Dut the th modern spirit IS the spirit of the Hilton twins and it hIt Violet with emphasIs when hen she heard her saxophone concert I want ant to learn to play the saxo saxophone phone I I want to learn learnt I Iwon I won want to learn I I Bah Bahl said Sister Dal Daisy Dany the horrid screechy things The twins t twin canto came cam as near quarreling as ever they had in their h lives ves little Sister Daisy Dany gave cave in All right she said learn to play the old saxophone If it you ou want to So a teacher was Mas as sent tent foi fOl and VIolet began Daisy tells of her ex- ex ady h hi he hN e N k ks q i s it would almost z seem a as if one arts ticket tic k ke e t should the them m it They ne De er tI try y B a c to be sharp tharp with z f i the t h he e railroads and always a s buy two tickets bu but t F q al a an n they do enJoy enjoy 1 a d 4 p having a little littia F 8 t i fun with Ith the Y t i conductor Sot SoA So t A they first offer offery y shim nm only one onex on x ticket But he says tays for v a two t 0 young loung oung ladies ladles we s Ii h o 0 u I 1 d have two t tOt t tickets D Dr r We Wc are one DaIsy Daisye e r tells him solemnly s J 4 Yes Ter one in m body and spirit Violet f V w soberly echoes r i My lily land Jand if It Isn't the famous Hil- Hil Hila Hil a a ten t twins ms he says y 4 r very often Well Veil k 3 r s k T this beats me Theres There's R f nothing to cover tins this a i r rin In my book of o rules to toAs y yr t r s sAs As he walks alks away k the sisters listers call him himy back and gl e him y r the exit a ticket They ate ale nearly f seventeen now New NeV The twins arc aree aregood l problems continually good musicians confront them and ands and here they are guardian their guardIan shown entertaining their friends friend One of the themos with witha a little jazz on the tho saxo saxo- phone l luteri uteri mot mos t puzzling phone and piano was as the th auto- auto automobile mobile peTIe nee while Violet was learning L I couldn't 1 read lead ead though I always got my most exciting de- de detective detective de detective story to tI by y to et the 11 r awful a ful racket while Violet Violot was pi ae At last I made up my mindI mind mindI I would just ju t dal damn dain n stockings to VIs VI's horrible But nut after music a while Violet developed developed I form on the saxophone And now dies hes liesa a mar cl at it So Im I'm awfully glad glud I Ibor bore bora those t terrible hours houn of discord Now ow we e have pleasant duets Vi Vs playing the tho saxophone and I tho the piano Of course everybody must mutt wonder jut just ho how these young ladies ladles manage when hen they travel As A they are ara joined together it i Each rach tWIn was as anxious to toi i i to dose e ail c Ai but Daisy was as the tho theone If Violet on one who ho most since Sister drove poor the left is t m tw in k If out of the door oar Daisy would be l and dangling on the th running running- boas bOal d dEven turning over matter Even such a as os problems The In bed serious nt at re ordinary person tosses and turns lurna pleas re often without along But Buthen when hen Sister Daisy D isy want wants wanti to turn tuna Oer O'er o she bhe has to waken Violet before the she can have bave her hl desire They hale base to get out of bed and get set In agaIn at nt the foot to achieve the new and restful position So it often happens that one twin will III lie he awake ake for r f not wishing to b her hei sister till she t too wishes lohes to turn When one ono of the Hilton twins InS gets a i cold her sister invariably comes down lown I Ithone Ith one twelve hours later Yet YetI I DaIsy has had shocking toothaches with face swollen and ncr e in m angul anguish h whilo all Violet suffered was wa losing lomg concern for her dear little sister T Two 0 things are of the gravest importance importance tance to the and woman oman woman II j many ing and As Aa A the tho twins grow t i told old enough to be the tho heroines of courtship court court- courtship I ship it is natural for good Aunt Edith I to foci feel n In this matter the she he has I reached what she sho thinks a wise decision Well We'll not urge anything nor sil iU we MOld avid the normal and highest experience of woman oman she says say I have brought JI our youngsters up in wholesome holesome knowl knowl- knowledge knowledge edge and respect for the sanctity of all the great experiences of womankind and If 10 lose c e comes and a sincere oun man meets either cither of my nieces andIan's and wants Ians wan sto to marry her I believe that the IOUS ob I dIfficultIes sell w ill III be somehow arranged to I But the tl twins shake their heads so- so soberly soberly so soberly berly when hen a hen they hear auntie talk tall like thus We Ve could meter nc ne er mirry they say We We know the Blazek Siamese twins felt differently One of them and had a son The baby was equally dear I to the married sister and the spinster But natural delicacy would forbid either I II I of us man maTi ling Ing We want w nt no love lov ot of that man that wasn t intended to be our por por- portion i toO lion tion We arc content in ill Iho tho love of each othel It has been the tile case with all nil tile the other sets of Siamese h twins hinS inS who grew v to ma- ma maturity ma that one died Cry ery shortly after t the other When the Blarek sisters died two t ago it was as possible to save sav the th well Hll sister by an But she refund to be severed flom her ife life corn com companion panion Violet and I 1 have base alnas aha aina s been to- to toI together together to together I 1 gether in life the Hilton Hillen t twins 1113 say Ir I Veve eve shared our joys and trIUmphs Ind ambitions We love Jove each other so dear ly Iy that life lire fOI toi one c without the would be too sad to endure No we w want allt to go both together l But the little Hiltons at sixteen face facea facen a long and busy bu bus life IlEe and they hey ate ale ie full of the JO joy of south louth by soi low toi-low Ol 10 which be no conecin ot of healthy poisons well ell I 1 he |