TWINS AGAIN 



Albert Edward Wiggam 

 Ncz^ York Citv 



IDENTICAL AND UNLIKE TWINS 



FicuKE 6 Leopold Klein and his twin brother, eighty-seven years old, have been dis- 

 similar throughout their lives, although reared and still living under very similar conditions 

 'fhe Fairbanks twins,' Broadway stars, are seated between the Klem brothers. Their mental 

 similarity is so great that they were constantly accused of copying each other s work when 

 nchool. The Austin twins (lower left) are very close duplicates, patches of freckle 

 below their eves being almost indistinguishable in pattern. The other girls are also identical 

 twins, but their pose does not show their similarity so well. 



TWINS ai'e of perennial interest, 

 both popular and scientific. The 

 writer recently sent out a re- 

 quest for twins through one of the 

 popular magazines, and received por- 

 traits of more than one hundred pairs, 

 with numerous interesting details 

 about many of them. While the data 

 by themselves would not enable us to 

 arrive at any definite conclusion, yet 



they are entirely in harmony with all 

 previous studies and emphasize the 

 fact that the nearer we approach in' 

 identity of physical organization, the 

 nearer we seem to approach in mental 

 traits. For instance, the writer and 

 his wife found that by first inspecting 

 the photographs sent in and estimating 

 the relative resemblances in physical 

 appearance, we could make a pretty 



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