New Britain herald., 1928-03-20

New York, March o0--F'iftecn years ago 9 pink frockod little gir! with cheery smile and big. wide open blue eyes, came out and confi- dently spoke a long piece at a Sun day school Easter service.
 4 few minutes later a pink -froCk- ed little girl with the same big. wide-open blue eyes. but without <" smile. came out and, not so ConCi- dently, recited some poetry.
 They're the McAllistnr twins" an old lady explained to q visitor. But I just can't tell you whether it was i Margaret or Frances who was lit tie bit shy, they're so much alike.' Two in Che.
 As a matter of fact, both of them were Frances. GOT maybe they were Margaret) At least both were the same twin. For at the last minute one of them succumbed to stage fright and, since they always learned each others pieces in addition to their own, the twin who had spoken once returned to pinch hit for her sister.
 Now, after "A years of inseperable comradeship, it looks as if Margaret and Frances McAllister mean to pinch hit for each other for life. For they are taking law together. They are to graduate from the Ford ham University law school this June and as soon as possible they mean to hang out twin shingles.
 Don't you think. We should have a double chance at success?' one of them laughingiy asked. Maybe ii was Frances and maybe it was Mar garet.
 | Always Nip and Tuck.
 Side by side the girls went through grade and high schools, both won scholarships at Cornell. i both finished their last two years of undergraduate work at Barnard and they were always nip and tuck with each other in grades, ever lik- ! ing the same subjects.
 When they were little they were so devoted they used to take punish ment for each other" their mother testified. "Often We have recited for | each other" they confessed. And once," said Margaret, with a roug- ish twinkle in her Irish eyes. ':Fran went to a dance with man who asked me and he didn't know the difference"
 The are 8 remarkable case of identical twins. They are the same size and weight exactly the same. Both have squarish faces that end unexpectedly in oval; both have the same lively Irish blue eyes. set identically under heavy eyebrows and lashes. Both wear their light chestnut hair bobbed the same way. Their rather straight mouths show the same even white teeth when they laugh-which is often.
 But 1t is their identical characters that is startling. Identify them and then study them. Try to draw con- clusons. Suggest that Frances looks as if she might be the more studi- ous, Margaret the fun maker. They laugh and say it is the other way round, if anything. Ask Margaret if she is the even-tempered one and Frances likely to get heated in ar gument and Frances says, "You should hear Marg out stumping for { Tammany. Shes a firebrand.'
 Tastes Identical. Too.
 Their tastes are identical in sports. They like tennis and golf, adore swimming and think touring Eng land and Scotland the best fun ill the world. Until recently they dress cd alike. Now if they shop separately they are likely to bring home prac- tically the same hat or dress. Both are inveterate readers and like much the same thing though Frances does lean towards liking detective stories more than Margaret. IL seemed in- evitable that they pursue the same profession. In this. parental infA- ence eXerted itself. for their fathe! is a member of one ofa New York : foremost law firms.
 We didn't really choose" they said in concert "We inherited oul profession from our father. And w inherited from both our father and our mother the belief that girls car be lawyers just as we'll as men,"
 "Is there always harmony betweei two such identical twins?" I'm , question Vas inevitable. Wouldn' either ever resent having the othe,