TWINS' SECRET BOND.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9173, 24 August 1908, Page 3

TWINS' SECRET BOND.

STRANGE INSTANCE OF SECOND SIGHT. A correspondent writes as follows J|Q'jjW»fc' < Daily Express" (London) de- * scribing a curious instance of a psychological bond between twins:— Can you tell me whether the strange #ift of second sight described below as usual between twins? A man and his wife and one daughter in a house in the West r.nd happened to have a new parhJurmaid—a girl from the country, b&e waited at dinner on the night of her arrival, and the next morning said to th-j mistress of the house: — "Please, m'm, isn't Miss Elsie a twin?" "Yes,'she was," replied tne lady; "but she lost her brother sixteen years ago when she was a ' ,baby. How did you know?'.' "I'm a twin myself, m'm, and I always have a feeling, which I can't ■explain, when I'm in the room with anyone who is a twin." The mistress thought this sufficiently curious to warrant her maKing an experiment, so ten days later she gave ■a little dinner, to which she invited a man who had a twin brother. The uftn came, and the maid duly waited 'on him. Next morning she sa ; d: - "I know Mr Smith was a twin, too. I felt it in my bones. I can't tell •w lat makes me fed it, but I always -dj."