PARTED BY ROMANCE

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 201, 30 June 1939, Page 4

PARTED BY ROMANCE

DOCTOR TWIN SISTERS LEIEIDS, May 10.—Joan and J<Zi leeii Bateson doctor twins, have partedl for thq first time. Since they were babies their lives have run in parallel—until yesterday, when Eileen married. They are slim, attractive- daughters' of William Bateson, a Leeds solicitor. As children they played with the same sort of toys, liked the same lessons at school, sat. side by .side for mati'icu* Jation. ' ' ' ' ' - J. Together attended medical school and took'their doctors’ degrees/'together. '• " ...... ■; , , But yesterday Dr., Eileen,, darkhaired to her twin’s rather, .morechestnut colouring, was the bride of Mi-. Peter Littiewood Hainsworth, of Ears ley, near Leeds, and her sister was tlie bridesmaid. '; ,“Though parted,;we are both happy” Dr. Joan Bateson, now house surgeon at Leeds M'aternity Hospital.. . said. “\V£| kiiew- that each has to find the way to'complete happiness. . , “My sister lias chosen marriage 'as her career. I am happy doing my. medical work. You see’’—and- Dr.; Bateson smiled mischievously- “although 1. think that my new brother-? in-law is very nice, my sfsier and" I. have lioft;- quite the same ideas .about our ideal man.”