The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-22
The ADVENT OF TWINS.
How Their Cominsis Regarded in Diff
fereat Countries
From a Londo1l Stanfnrd.


Few things are more mysterious than the
undefnabie sympathy which often exists
betA cen two beings who came into the
world together. There can be no doubt
tnat t1i5 5 ympathy is real, and not the effect
u the imaE inatiOn, as soma have supposed.
So far as IS known it does not always de-
velop itself, a ID when it is present its cause
Is not by any mea IS u iderstOol. A very
real affection ge orally exists between
TWAS, AID often seems TO show itself in the
earliest days Of macy. 1t is no uncom-
mon tn & for a In who has lost his or
her counter yar. to pi % away, d Oyping
gradually into the clutches of the destr we
Ill taxi 6 way toe Otuer, mas de-
prive1 fife OF ali its But though ID
teas fond less Is no doubt to a gre It extent
the cause OF suc sad occurrence, the sym
pat which twins have for one another
SLOWS Itself here.
VITA ma ~ savage races twins are hurried
out of the world Immediately ey nave g l.
tered 1t; others allow tue N t. live, but only
uuder certain Conditions. In Wes.ern
| Africa htuls below the equator, between
| IL degrees ahd II d. rees east longitude.
live large tribe caled the Ish,g They
| have many peculiar c4stoms. out no ne more
so than their treatment of twins and of the
motnsr VINO Is 50 unfortunate as 10 bear
the Al. An ldeI see as to exist with them
that no woman ought to produce more than
'l1gle enid ut a time, and they seek to
rectfy tue error by giving tn ir drites
ever cnanc5 OF killing one Of the children
before they have arrived at the age at
which they are Jn,ldered able 70 take care
OF themselves TulS Is held to be at about
6years old; ice ia 1T aga has been passed,
IL Is Thought by these psople that propet.
alanc5 bet "een life and death has again
beel rIck, u 4 they do not deem any fur
| t1er precautions necessary. Immediately
the birth of twins tax S place, the hat in
WHICH the event happened is marked in
aome manner which viii render 1t readily
dlstiug Ilshable from all others in the vii
lage.
Those who have read accounts Of African
ira ell Will JrobIOly rene 4nbsr the Il ali.
nous testlmJIy which explo ers of the
DARK milne IL bear to the tx lraordinary
Ioquacity Of its itiyes. Africans talk as
they breathe-unceasi igly-and yet the
d'ortu late mot ler of twins is forbidden
to exchange single word vita any but
the lmmedlate m0m Jers of her family. She
may go to tue TO est for frewood, and
perform the uou g oil work necessary for
exlsJence OF herself and her children, but it
must be all done in strict silence, unless she
finds herself near oue of her cl ,se relatives.
Inc Consequence of this peculiar custom
Is tnat the LsnoSo woman breads the advent
OF twins more t4an anything, except, per-
uaps, being Childless; and nothing irrita es
newly married woman more than to tell
her that she is sure to become the mother of
two children at Il birth.
When the six years of probation have
dragged out their weary length, a grand
ceremony Is held to celebrate the release of
the three captlves, and their admission t.
the society Of their fellows. At day break
all the village is aroused by proclanatio
made IN the principal street, ald the mother
and frle1d take up their stand on either
side of the door of the hut, having previous
ly whltened their leg and faces. The rest
OF the inhabitants OF tne place congregate
round about d at given nal the W iCe-
leg Sed women march away from the hut.
folio we'd by the twins, the mother clasping
| her hands and caperng about, the friend
beati 6 lusty tat 90 up a drum and
singing a song appropriate to the occa-
sion.
After this procession has gone the
round of the village there is a general da 1ca.
Tnen every ie sits down to a great feas
q id eating, drinking aid dancing are car
RED on for the rest of the day
and all through the night. As
tions upon the mother and her offsp ing are
ned to be removed. This cerem my is
known as IN paZa, word which signifies
| both the twins aud t le rite By virtue of
which tley and their mother are admitted
TO the companship of tuelr kind.
Cases IN which one of a pair of twins has
| felt disturbing iufluelcs at work within
| him when evil was detailing his other self
| are humorous AS with all matters of the
| KIM, the instances related are apt to Dor
| der upon the land of fiction, but there are
many which are perfectly we'll authenti-
Gated. Though twins are usually alike in
! form aud feature, tnls is not invariably the
case, The writer Knows twil brothers who
can scarcely be sad to bear even a family
likeness co one another, and whose complex
| ions go to the very ex yremes OF DARKNESS and
fairness. But though ullike bodily, they
resemble oIe another mentally to such an
exUeut that they pas led from the bottom TO
the top of one of our gre It public schools
side by side.