River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-09-01
THE DOUBLE WOMAN IN TOWN.
Go0d-natured. intelligent. and Per-
picking in an Extraordinary De-
gree.

New York Sun.
Miss Mile Christine, the two headed
nightingale, arrived in town yesterday
and received the reporter in the parlor
Of her boarding house in Ninth street.
She tripped in lightly, but sideways,
and extended one of her right hands
and one of her left in greeting. She is
very puzzling, being two pretty distinct
women Joined by nature in one. There
is no doubt that she has never been
alone by one of herselves since her
birth which happened in North Caro-
lima thirty years ago. She is short and
of the same height Her outlines and
her general appearances are very SINH
lar to each o.her. She has very square
shoulders, rounded arms, and shapely
hands. She would sit naturally back to
back, but habit, bred of the unaccom-
modating shape of chairs and of
natural desire for nearer sociability,
much as possible, and she sits COM
monty shoulder to shoulder, at an angle
of forty-tive degrees, in very convent
ent position for a tete-a-tete converse
ton. She is black, and the features of
her faces are those natural to colored
persons, but very pleasant and intelli-
gent.
Manager Starr of the Broadway mu-
scum, having introduced her, and
she having doubly shaken hands
as said. she seated herself with grace
full unanimity in chair, and entered
naturally and agreeably into converse
ton. She wore two open-work polo
naises of brown color over a wide
skirt of some dark material. One of
her right arms and one of her left
arms were encircled by gold bracelets.
Her four feet were small and beauti-
fully shod, and peeped very PRETTY
from their concealment.
She spoke, besides, English, German,
Italian, and Spanish in a voice that
was low and musical. Sometimes in
answer to questions she would speak
both together, in the same words, but
she was also capable of carrying on
two independent conversations with
the utmost facility. She called her
self 81, !" and said laughingly that she
never spoke of "both of me-" Her
| two heads, she said were independent
of each other, but her tastes were
similar and her requirements were
just the same. She paid one fare in
travelling, and ordered dinner only for
one, which corresponded to her mutual
appetite.
wont you dance for us, Miller
sad Mr.. Smith, her personal mana
ger.
In response she at once arose, and
her four little feet twinkled charmingly
as she trod number of difficult meas
ures. Subsequently, she held up two
of her feet and walked with the other
two with perfect ease.
She has great deal of quiet humor
and fund of pleasant anecdotes.
Once in a while she woHld exchange a
word with herself, but not often.
Neither did she seem to be fretted at
all from being compelled to sit in the
same chair with herself, notwithstand-
ing that the chair was somewhat mar
row. Manager Smith said that she
was never out of temper and never ont
of health. Manager Starr said that
one of the two consuming ambitions of
her life had been gratitied, and that
the other was about to be. She had
been given an audience by Queen
Victoria, and the time was now at hand
when she was to be presented to Cap
tain Goshen, the humorous and per-
fectly symmetrical giant from Pales-
tine.
The nightingale is two women joined
together, back to back, in the manner
of the Siamese twins.