Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-08-25
THE DOUBLE WOMAN IN TOWN.
Good-Natured, Intelligent and Pc
picking in an Extraordinary Degree

Good -Natured, intelligent and Per-
picking in an Extraordinary Degree.
Miss Millie Christine, the two-headed
nightingale, arrived in town yesterday
and received the reporter in the parlor
OF her clearinghouse, 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 heI
birth, which happened in North Caro-.
lima thirty years ago. She is Shorthand
at the same height. Her outlines and
her general appearances are very simi.
lar to each other. She has very square
shoulders, rounded arms, and shapely
hands. She would sit naturally back
to back, but habit bred of the unacco n.
modating shape of chairs and of a nat
ural desire for nearer sociability, has
tended to make her face herself as
much rs possible, and she sits common.
ly shoulder to shoulder, at an angle OF
about 40 deg, in very convenient po
sition for a tete-a tete conversation
She is black, and the features of hel
faces are those natural to colored
pc sons, 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 graceful unan.
unity in a chair and entered gracr lis
into conversation. She wore two \
work pOlOnaises of a brown color O
a wide skirt of some dark mater.
One of her right arms and one of he
LETT arms were encircled by gold brace
lets. Her four feet were small and
beautifully shod, and peeped very pret.
tlly from their concealment.
She spoke, besides English, German,
Italian and Spanish, in voice that was
low and musical. Sometimes in an.
swer to questions she would speak
both together in the same words, but
she was also capable of carving 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 only in tray
ing, and ordered dinner only for one
which corresponded to her mutual ap-
petite.
won't you dance for us, Miliie p
SAID Mr.. Smith, her personal manager
In response she at once arose, and
her four little feet twinkled charming
ly as she tried Il number of difficult
measures. Subsequently she held III
two of her feet and walked with the
other two with perfect ease.
She has a great deal of quiet humol
and a fund Of pleasant anecdotes
Once in q while she wOJld exchange q
word with herself, but not often
Neither did she seem TO &c fretted al
all from being compelled to sit in The
same chAir with herGelf, notwith.
standing tb t the chair was somewhat
narrow. Manager Smith said that she
was never out of temper, and never out
of health. Manager Starr said that
one of tie two consuming ambitions OF
her life had been grItjfed, and that
the Other was about to be. She had
been given an audience by Queen Vic
toria, and the time was now at hant
when she was TO be presented ID Capt
Goshen, the humorous and perfectly
symmetrical giant from Palestine.
The nightingale is two womei
joined together, back to back, in tn,
manner of the Siamese twins.