Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-15


IVA ESNlN y best are the pro-
ka MMYN fessional oarsmen
MN ELS who one season are
N Ir6lt heroes wherever
1871 they 60 and make
TS ," money hand over
fist, and another are scarcely recognized
outside of aquatic circles and earn only
enough cash to keep body and soul together.
At present it is in high feather All over
the country boat clubs and college navies
are practicing, competing and exhibiting,
and In every case draw great crowds and
elicit any amount of enthusiasm. The
interest is on the increase on ac-
count of the fierce rivalry be-
tween our leading universities. Col
A NIGHT WITHOUT PAINT.
"Idon't think I'll paint my face at all for
to-night's performance" she said to the
stage manager. ''It will be a novelty to
show sunburned face, aad it will remind
the audience that I have been off for the
summer"
She was permitted to make the expert
1
oddty in the collection of powdered and
rouged faces, but it was not deemed sue
cess. The actress looked like nothing else
so much as a negress, the glaring light of
the stage, and the comparison with pink and
white compilations, in effect deepening the
TAM For that evening she artifcially colored
her arms and neck to make them match her
| fono hn
reversed that process, and painted her face
to make it harmonic with the rest of her
visible anatomy.
| ONE OF TALMAGE'S wHIMs.
The Rev. DIR. Talmage is one of the mauy
men who believe that they can read the
character of woman in her face. He goes
still further, and declares his ability to
discern the general sort of experience you
| have had. Every crows foot or dimple,
| hollow or protuberance means that you
| have had joys or sorrows of some particular
nature. The Tabernacle had its first
| autumn reception this week, and among the
| guests were the Rice twin sisters, whose exact
resemblance to each other is a standing
marvel at Westboro, Mass. They are in
! deed wondrous counterparts, and many are
the anecdotes in which confusion of their
an hour without discovering the faintest
| difference. One is still Miss Rice, while
the other. became Mrs. Kelley by marriage
about ten years ago. Well, they were pre-
sented to Talma2e, and he conversed awhile
with them interestedly. for they are ladies
of literary attainment and more than the
average of attractive sociability. An hour
later, a mischevious member of Tslmage's
flock asked him how he had liked the
twins. He didn't recall their names, but
he had been very favorably impressed by
them.
FACT TO ACCOUNT FOR.
You were telling me the other day." the
plotting sister continued, THAT every i'm
portant experience of lite left its impression
visible upon the sensitive face OF woman.
Now, how do you account for the fact that
these ladies have remained so precisely
alike, down to the minutest detail of their
faces?"
Easily enough" the preacher confidently
replied. They were reared together, they
have lived always under the same family
conditions, their emotions have been alike
and SO they remain as you see them-as
perfect likenesses as they were when they
lay together in a CRADLE
And you are sure that any difference in
their manner of living would have pro-
duced more or less difference in their faces?"
81 am sure of it,
"Well, 1 only wanted to let you commit
yourself fully to your theory, because the
facts as to these twins knocks it completely
out. One has been a wife for ten years,
while the other remains unmarried, and
what becomes of your theory of physiognomy
as applied to these facts?"
At that point Talmage found that polite
ness required him to pay attention to an
other group of parishioners.
QUEER POSSIBLE BIGAMY.
In the way of twins, you have probably
seen the so-called two-headed girl, Millie
Christine, consisting of two negresses Joined
together by nature much more compactly
than were the famous Siamese twins. Millie
and Christine have been shown by Barnum
and other exhibitors for many years, and
are now aged about 40. The Siamese broth
ers married two wives as you will remem-
Der, and lived in South Carolina, after re-
tIring from the museums until the death of
one from disease was Immediately followed
by that of the other from fright. A post
mortem examination proved that physicians
had been right in saying that a surgical
separation would have been fatal. In the
case of Millie and Christine, even the sug-
gestion Of parting them cannot be consid-
cred, because they are Joined from their hips
nearly up to their shoulders. But it was
not question of freakish anatomy which
led me to write Of these women. Ex-Judge
Dittenhoefer is New York lawyer to whom
show people go with many of their knotty
legal questions.
"But no case was ever presented to me
that was easier to decide, and yet more
curiously novel, " the lawyer recently said
to me, "than that of Millie-Christine. The
death of Dick Fitzgerald. through whose
show agency much OF the business of the
museums was done, recalls this matter,
which came to me about year ago, but has
never been published. Fitzgerald called at
nv Office with letter from Millie- Christine.
requesting him to find out whether, if they
were to marry
ONE AND THE SAME MAN,
it would constitute bigamy in the eye Of the |
law. 1t was evident enough, although they |
did not say so explicitly, that an offer of
Joint marriage had been made to them, and |
that they contemplated an acceptance, in J
case the tripartite union would be lawful. |
They urged that they had always been ad- |
yertised as "a two-headed girl, the claim |
being made on their behalf that they were |
one individual with two heads, four arms |
and four legs. If that view of them could |
be accepted in law, then a single husband |
would be quite proper. But they were pious |
Methodists, and had no notion OF doing any
thing wrong, legally or religiously. Fitz-
gerald wished my professional opinion for
the guidance of the twins. Of course, the
theory that they were one person was en-
tirely untenable. and 1 had no difficulty in
forming an opinion that their JOINT mar
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