Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-20 | Page 9 | Can You Solve the Twins Mystery?

15 LNraE. T ; ims MYSTY? I Columbia mo appeals to the . world to help It solve the. great ' wins rnj ster'- 'hy has Columbia more turn- In Pn .portion to Its population than any . 'H' In America ? The census reveals that Columbia. ' with a total resident and student population pop-ulation of 16,272, has pairs oC I .v Ins. Thai's one pair of twins t.. pvery 177 persons llvlnir In the Missouri college col-lege town. "Am 1 seeing double?" usA the ; strancer in Columbia after nieetmn j pair after pair of twiriS. And Columbia asks the visitor a , dozen questions in reply Why is Columbia the record twin ' (own ? "Jy are some vf the twins Identic eal ? I "Why are some of the twins different dif-ferent ? ' Why do some of the twins even : think alike? "Wh do some of them think total, i ly unlike'." 1 And then come another pair aloii "Say, can you tell which Is which "' Colombia is the seat of the University Univer-sity of Missouri and Christian -col-lofie and Steph-ns college. 1'rofessors at the colleges physl- i'lane ami psychologists are poncier-Ing poncier-Ing these gues'ioris. Most of Columbia's twins are Identical Identi-cal twins that Is twins the same in appearance 'ami general churac-i churac-i eristics. i 6 A ."Sir - The minority are what scientists call, fraternal twins born together but no so alike, sometimes being of different sr. xes Ordinarily six pairs of fraternal I twins are burn to ofie pair of identical I twins so th reverse situation In I Columbia leads the scientists to be-J lleve local conditions have much to do with tt The psychologists are more baffled than the physicians. For example, a pair of twins In Stephens college handed In wrilt-u v..rk that was much al,k' A teacher teach-er suspected "cribbing." She sat the twins down at opposite sides of the classroom and gave th. in m ..ri.n.-l test, They wrote down answers almost al-most Identical In phrasing, spelling even punctuation. "W.-'ve twin minds and twin souls, as well as twin bodies," laughed the twins at the dumbfounded teacher; "just like Dumas' Corslcan brothers." The twins at Stephens college rank about the same respectively In their classes. They have organized a Duplex Du-plex club with 18 charter members, Mlxups of the twins arc frequent, Recently Floy and Ray Burgess ptr H corted N'elnia and SBelma Bishop to JpH a college party When they got home IPpH they found out they were guilty of JPPJ mistaken Identity and each boy had JpJH accompanied the other's partner homi i Sloane and Ieake McCaule. then. JJPJ selves don't know which Is which. Af- JPH ter they were 'named, their mother lppH distinguished them by tying a white' ppJH t b (Oil "ii one. a pink i ibbon on Cue - I But the ribbons came off when the PPhH both were in the bath tub one dav PPPJ and the myslerv of Which is which " ppp can never, no, never be solved! PPPJ KKT TO TWINS PIZ7.LH You'll be surprised to find the PPPJ "Triplets" among the twins, but an - I way, here they are, alonr with the PPH rest of the twins whose pictures art PPH j printed above PPBflBBj 1 Jewett Tripleit PPPJ I 2 Zola Younken ppH S Velma Bishop I 4 Emily McGulre . ppB I J Florence Russell PPPJ I I Beatrice Kehr pjppj 7 Uuclle Suter PJpH h Margaret Nowell llipH H Jewell Trlplett pppj Zona Younken PPP E Selma Bishop PPH G Frances McOuire PPH D (Jarland Russeil PPH I B Bertha Kehr PJpH I C Gertrude Suter PJpH A Louise Nowell. ppH