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so MUCH ALIKE THEIR MOTHER CONFUSES THEM 



Figure 12. Twins have their disadvantages. One mother writes that she is getting 

 tired of rushing to the other end of the town to help the school superintendent decide which 

 twin he should spank, and in some cases which one he has already spanked. The mother of 

 these two young ladies would be able to offer small assistance, as she has difficulty in telling 

 her own daughters apart. 



seems to have kept us apart nearly all 

 our lives. We were not raised together 

 and have not seen very much of each other, 

 but for all that we have always been very 

 fond of one another and are as alike as 

 two peas in a pod. We look alike, act 

 alike, talk alike, and talk is the main thing 

 we do when together. We seem to catch 

 each other's ideas perfectly and often both 

 start to say the same thing at the same 

 time. 



My sister married quite young, several 

 years before I did. We were raised under 

 entirely different environments. Our mother 

 and father separated when we were four 

 years of age, and my sister was raised by 

 a friend of my mother's people, who has 

 no children of her own. Consequently, she 

 was raised as an only child, while I was 

 one of a large family of children, my 

 mother having married again. 



We had only seen each other once before 



my twin sister came to live with us for a 

 year, at the age of fifteen, and we were 

 surprised to see how much alike we were, 

 our tastes being all but the same, in dress 

 and manners, so that even our mother 

 would often mistake us. 



Let US contra.st this letter from the 

 Prenschoff sisters who were born alike 

 and remained alike in spite of all 

 changes of environment, with the fol- 

 lowing- from Mrs. X and her twin, 

 who were born unlike and remained 

 unlike, despite all the efforts of similar 

 environment to mold them into a com- 

 mon pattern. 



As for our appearance, as a child I was 

 fat, blonde and healthy. My sister was 

 thin, blonde and much weaker. She is still 

 thin and has to watch her health. Since 



