Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1915 — EFFECT OF LONG ASSOCIATION [ARTICLE]

EFFECT OF LONG ASSOCIATION

Marked Facial and Other Resemblances Noticed Among Those Who Have Been Together Years. That persons who live together for a very long period not only acquire the same mannerisms, but grow a strong facial resemblance is an established fact. But it is little known that the same condition often existß among mistress and servant being associated together for a long period of years. There is usually a strong desire on the part of most servants to ape their mistresses, and this, added to the fact of. constant nearness,' often extends to facial resemblances. There are in a small town to Njew ,Y«fc iftftift *’*'<? npusunl instances of Tjjjp kind; Two widows live there, each of whom has been attended by a wow

an servant for more than 40 years. In both cases the servants have become so like' their -mistresses that they are often mistaken for them, and their cases have attracted Attention far and near. Their voldes over the telephone are so alike that friends of the women have given up this method of communication. . -i-