Show AV AW aris 16 41 W 0 s va 6 by ELMO SCOTT WATSON As F YOU want to get in the news pictures be a twin 24 many schools have won temporary fanie fame because a picture has hn gone out bearing this familiar caption ei sets of twins in 01 4 1 one school puzzle teachers 4 and the number which k is inserted in that blank r space varies front from five to seventeen A few years ago stephens college at columbia mo ho already famous its as the vassar assar of the west won even more 14 re engan no n from the fact that it had in its enrollment no less than 18 pairs of wins twins and that they had formed a unique organization named the plex club in st louis a year or so ago tile press iress agent for a pair of siamese wins twins ha who were appearing at a local theater heater had the happy inspiration to give ive a twin party to ahl which h all twins were fere invited sixty five pairs rang ov ing in age from two months to forty five years were on land hand with the result of an interesting group photograph and much good publicity tor for the siamese twins in new york city twin daughters of a lawyer attended the fordham law school together were graduated together passed the state e examinations together were admitted to the bar toge together Lher and the news photographers rushed to picture them tog together etherl among the most publicized candidates for admission to west point in recent years were the seventeen bear s earold ear old twin sons of a pennsylvania soldier killed hilled near Cli chateau atenta thierry during the world war when president hoover nominated them for admission to the united states military academy news stoles and a news picture of course recorded the tact fact that their appointment ment Is believed to be the first designation of twins ever so made but are enins such a rarity after nil all science ches an answer which you cf interpret its as you wish it says that of eiery 1000 babies horn born there are ten pairs of twins 2 per cent if you want to base your calculations on some of the much pub twins in schools you will find the percentage somewhat higher A california school a year or so ago broadcast the tact fact that it had nice sets ets of twins in an enrollment of 6 per cent similarly logan town iowa reported 12 pairs of twins in an enrollment of a little over 8 per cent but whether you consider these figures as evidence that twins are or are not such rarities the fact remains that the study of twins has challenged the ai af of scientists for many years and some definite results to explain them have been accomplished although the scientists are not entirely in accord in all conclusions two linda of twins are generally recognized the fraternal and the identical fraternal twins are children born at almost the same time but the prod net of two life cells they may be the same or opposite sexes and frequently bear no more resemblance to one another than any brother and sister bister ahey are simply a biological coincidence but in the case of identical twins it is a far different matter tor for they are produced by the splitting of a single life cell they are invariably of the same sex and furthermore resemble each other amazingly not only facially fac lally in fit coloring and other physical details but in mental processes emotional reactions and in III other subtle ways they are literally two halves of 0 a single personality instances of 0 remarkable resemblances blat ices between twins usually refer to tile the identical type although it Is generally conceded that there was no safe criterion tor for distinguishing between tile identical and the fraternal until a japanese scientist taku kontal komal of the imperial university at kyoto japan announced his discovery of a method of lt it he says in the course of study on my collection of fingerprints and hand and sole prints of some twins I 1 have come to realize that generally speaking enking sp tue the same me hands or teet feet of the identical was resemble ren emble each other more close clohe I 1 to this thi council bluffs iowa family goes the distinction of being americas ica a F F T finest family of twins they are mr and mrs mr an drew kroger and their ten children five sets of twins the twins are clyde and claude born in 1912 addle e and abbie born in 1914 floyd and lloyd born in 1919 jean and jeannette born in 1923 and the babies donald dean and norma jean born in 1930 2 leo arid and theo bogana of corvallis ore have a double ro no pun intended distinction not only are they twins but they are leap year twins having been born february 29 1916 although they are fifteen years old they have been able to celebrate their bi birthday rt th only three times they are shown above holding the cup which they won at a recent twins roundup round up held at albany ore in which sets of twits twins took part ly in their patterns than the two hands ban or feet of the same indi individual tills holds good in principle also for se several eral identical twins studied by others while such a condition can never be found in twins 0 of f different sexes nor in twins of the same sex bearing evidence tor for their being fraternal twins thus we seem to be justified by saying such twins are are identical twins tins in which the same hands or feet of different individuals are more alike than the different hands bands or feet of the same but this statement must not be taken as involving the notion also that it if the former resemblance Is less than the latter hitter resemblance the given twins are fraternal since there are some soine twins bleh are apparently identical and yet do not show the condition mentioned above e anyway this will if probably serve as a criterion tor for idon iden some identical twins some writers on twins and twinning seem to hold the view that the identical twins are comparable w with I 1 th the right and left halves of the body of one person the view could not be quite correct should it imply hint the resemblance between the identical twins Is in principle to the re between the right and loft left halves of one person As a matter of fact speaking generally tile resemblance between the identical twins Is more than that between the halves of 0 one person aside from the fact that the viscera shows allows a marked asymmetry even among identical twins there are hearal cases known where such twins have the same defect 0 or r abnormality on the same side hide of tie I 1 body moreover ng fig mentioned abo above v e the hands or feet of tile hie same side of different twins show rinser resemblance than the two hands or feet of the same individual hut but liow flow does science account for twins anyway no one lins has ventured a positive answer but it Is 13 generally believed that the process which takes place to produce twins Is as folio follows the 0 utu am a single cell Is fertilized and thereupon begins to divide always by twos into many cells gradually these are differentiated into three types and form themselves into layers in the form of a sphere the middle of 0 which Is hollow called tb ov T up to this point t hl I 1 process 1 1 I manual for some reasel not hn cwi however the next belliot to split it Is thought thou glit that tills this V I 1 ps possibly sibly due to the tart fact that the cl als s on the inner layer expand much more rapidly thin those on the outer ind naturally the outer layer bursts as does a football bladder when it Is blown up too tightly lightly when the split spilt Is complete tile the sides of the hie two split portions are joined together and we liae hae two distinct blast opheres wl w ilch i ich proceed to form identical indjid lindh id als ala since the divi di siou is always by twos and it Is the opinion of 0 dean horatio II if newman of the of chicago author of the physiology of twinning slid and the P 1 16 y of twins which are regarded is standard ref refer er ence works on tile the su Bilt that it Is this obvious that tripi triples tIt can never he be identical two tn o f tile lie may ie be duplicates an aul me he lurd werely ie rely a fraternal type the et i tile the llyn tion of a second it Is possible however for bolets to be two sets of Iden identical Lical twins dotor doctor newman holds in in such inseal instances aps cps the two tact that resulted from from the split in their turn d divided v tied the famous german case cabe partly lg ipg andary tin biml partly substantiated by records of the time of tile woman who gave birth to eight children at one time Is also alho recalled in tills this instance so rare that tha t it Is mantlo mentioned ed in III nil all reference works on oil biological anomalies the four agai chided to form eight an ali extremely vital cell may surviving two divisions and four cliff dren result some of the most important evl eat dence us as to the lie nature mode ff sell sei determination and much additional light on the age old dispute oer th ati relative importance of ber heredity edIty and environment comes coines front from a study of identical twins who have been all adopted opted in III infancy by different families according to dean newman wito who lias has had bad charge of a study made by tile university of chicago of orphans adopted into private homes among the studied were 30 sen seli of twins of tills number the cases of two were particularly Inte crol that of eleanor and Georg georginna laina kelly eleanor had biad been adopted when she sha was two years old Geor georgiana glana at al eighteen months both had grown up in environments in many respects entirely different and yet they are as nearly alike as they could he be not only in appearance but in the matter of cental drives and impulses as well in contrast to the kelly twins there Is tile hie case of alice and olive redman fredm in also Ident identical leal twins studied and ob sered by doctor newman and ills his us as stants si alice and ollie hom born in london were separated rated flora each other through adoption for more than ton tell years not long ngo ago they were revolted reunited in near toronto canada the file redman girls received about the same game amount and kind hind of education they are remarkably kably alike physically and they apparently have the same interests and tastes but there Is a vast difference in tile the mi antal 44 t of the girls |