The Russellville Democrat., 1881-08-25
DOUBLE WOMAN.
Good Natured, Intelligent and Perplexing
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 | in an Extraordinary Degree. | N@ New York Sun. Miss Millie Christine, the two headed nightengale, 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. l 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 herseives 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 similar 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 unaccommo- dating shape of chairs and of natural desire for nearer sociabllitv, has tended to make her face her self as much as possible, and she sits commonly shoulder 10 shoulder, Ut an angle of about forty five degrees, in very convenient posi- tion for tete-a-tete conversations. She is black, and the features fher faces are those natural to colored persons, but very pleasant and intelligent.
 Manager Starr of the Broadway Museum, having introduced her, and she having doubly shaken hands as said, she seated herself with graceful unani- mity ill a chair, and entered naturally and aQreeably into conversation. She wore two open-work polonaises of brown color over 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 beautifully shod, and peeped very pretuly from their conceilment.
 She spoke, besides English, German, Italian, and Spanish in voice that was low and musical. Sometimes in answer to questions she would speak both to- Qether in the same words, but she was also capable of carrying on two indepen- dent conversations with the utmost facility. She called herself"I 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 travelling, and ordered dinner only for one, which corresponded to her nat ural appetite.
 Wont you dance for us, Millie9" said Mr. Smith, her hersonal manager.
 In response she at once arose, and her four little feet twinkled charmingly as she trod number of difficult measures. Subsequently sine 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 while she would exchange 6 word with herself, but no, often. Neither did she seem to be fretted at all from being compelled to sit in the same char with herself, notwithstanding that the chair was somewhat narrow. Manager Starr said that one of the two consuming ans bitions of her life had been gratifed, and that the other WAS about to be. She had been given an audience by Queen Vic toria, and the time WAS now at hand when she was to be presented to Capt. Goshen, the humorous and perfectly symmetrical giant from Palestine.
 The nightingale is two women joined together, back to back, in the manner of the Siamese twins.