New Britain herald., 1929-05-21
YOUR HEALTH
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Medical Association and of lily. geia, the Health Magazine.
By C. D. B.tchelo,

Some years ago, a writer named Muller made study of identical twins who had been separated in childhood and reared apart. It has been a common belief that twins not only look alike. but think alike and act alike, that there is between them some vague attachment, some- thing like telepathic connection, which causes them to be joyful or ssrrowful at the same moments.
 In order to prove the truth or falsity of this belief. Professor H. H. Newman of the University of Chi cago, one of the greatest authori- ties On the subject of twins. has stu died the cases of several sets of twins separated in youth and reared at great distances from each other.
 A Wide Difference
 Tn one instance. one of the twins was adopted by relatives and the other by friends of the family. One was taken to Canada when she was two years old and the other remain
 cd in England until she was IT years of age. These girls received
 about the same amount of education and had about the same opportui- ties.
 They are what modern science
 recognizes as identical twins h.
 deed. the markings on the palms of the hands are almost the same. as well as the finger prints. The twins
 are found to be. after the passage of time. about nine pounds different in wcicht. but with hair color, eye color and cars and teeth very si'n- twins tended 10 bn left handed and the ot her right handed.
 They were given a great many
 mental tests and were found to be quite different. One was much
 smarter than the other, but both
 were high tempered. nasty in
 action and judgment. Whereas these twins were much the same
 in their emotional reaction and
 not the same in their mentality.
 the twins studied by Muller were much different in their emotional
 reactions and rated the same in their mentality.
 In another instance, twins born in a New York city hospitay were taken to 2n orphanage and at the age of IS months and two years were adopted by two families liv- ing in different parts of Michigan. When these girls were % years old
 they were studied together. Since neither had known of the existence Of the other. if was easy to deter mine whether they felt at the same | time similar scnsations.
 Looked Much Mike
 Tn their casc they were found 10 be remarkably similar in appear
 ance. but had becn profoundly mod flied by different educational oppor- | tunitics. The twin who had been | well educated had a distinctly super 1 for mind, showing greater bright ness and alertness as well as greater
 ever. their emotional reactions were quite similar and their tempera- i ments were approximately the same. On the basis Of these studies. it is reasonable to believe that twins in the same circumstances are likely 10 react cmotionally in exactly the same way 10 similar situations and l that If any mental disturbance cc- CUTS which is likely to upset the ! mortal status of one greatly. if will rrobahly upset the mental status of tn" other greatly.
 If. however the twins are far apart and are not acted on by the same situations. they are not likely 10 be affected at the same time in any way In other words. there is ny l he slieh:"st proof of any spiritual l 1T tnlepathjc connection between identical twins.