Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-12-15
NOTHING BUT THEORY.
Amateur Psychologist Gives Utter
ance to Some Singular and
Startling Views.

| "On October % I shall be 49," said
the amateur psychologist, as he signed
the note which was intended to take
up an earlier note, relates the Chicago
Inter Ocean. II mention 1t in no
boastful spirit, my advent and contin-
uance being facts for which can claim
no special credit; but in the course of
the ~ years I have accumulated three
children, and, singularly enough, two
Of their playmates have sort of pro-
prietary interest in that birthday OF
mine.
"Half a dozen houses from me, on
the opposite side of the street, lives a
little girl who was born October %,
1890, and who on my birthday will
celebrate her fourteenth. Directly op-
| posite my house, on the next street,
lives larger girl who was born Octo-
Der %, 1883, and who, therefore, will
be sweet 16' on the day become-ah,
to be sure, and thank you-sweet-
ened AZ.
Nov this coincidence is Of itself
rather remarkable. Here within a
stones throw of each other are three
unrelated persons whose birthdays fall
on the same day. A mathematician
will tell you that the chances against
such duplication are as many as 1000
to 1. But the more remarkable thing
is that we three seem to have many
characteristics in common.
"True, the younger girl is at the age
when TO the casual or unfriendly eye
a child of either sex is mostly legs.
She has hardly got her bearings yet.
I gamble with myself, when I come
home at night, as to whether I shall
see her doing embroidery at the win
dow or standing on her head on the
fence post.
"Nor has the older girl quite de-
cided whether to go on the stage or
merely to take charge Of her own fam
| lily. She is not even clear as to wheth-
er it is strictly ladylike to mind ones
mother, but she is sufficiently mature
| SO that tendencies which in the H.
year-old are perceptible are in the
| other conspicuous.
"And unquestionably both Of these
girls resemble me. Friends of mine,
who are strangers to my family, have
met the girls in my neighborhood,
greeted them as my children, and re-
fused to be persuaded to the contrary.
AS a matter of fact, the birthday shar-
ers look more like me than my own
children do.
I'm temperament. too, we three are
akin. My two daughters and my son
are quiet and practical, like their
| mother. The girls who we're born on
my birthday are imaginative, high
strung, easily exalted or depressed, and
much given to chasing rainbows.
Very likely the treadmill of life will
restrain and soler them, but in the
meantime, say for ten years, 1t viii!
be an even chance. day by day, wheth-
er Laura POUNDS a new religion and
Gladys poisons her mother-in-law, or
vice versa.
Nov, why should these girls take
after me in appearance and DISPOSE
tion? begin to answer that question
by admitting, as every one must, that
a strong personality, or even a note
worthy event, has persisting influ-
ence.
"Then," went on the amateur psy-
chologist, lowering his voice mys-
teriously, II add the assumption that
that influence is projected with great
ly increased strength on the anniver-
saries Of the occurrence which set the
psychic waves in motion-and there
you are! It follows that every year
on October q the motive fofces Of the
| uni. erse address themselves to the
congenial task of reproducing me-"