Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1853-11-03

| OAhNUM . BEARDED LAD1.-1H lOOkllg
over French scientific work on the
subject of boards, day or two since, We
stumbled on curious chapter of collect
ed facts as to the women of different
epochs who have CHANGED to be beard
ed; and the opening question of the
writer-''Shall women be disinherited
ofbeard to all eternity?'-mad us fan
cy that translation ofthe historical part
of it would be interesting:-Memphis
Eagle d Enquirer.
Hippocrates cites an instance ola wo-
man of Abdera, named Phetusa, whose
husband, Pythias, was long kept in ex-
lie, and who walked one morning with a
beard which had grown in the night.
Queen Marguerite, of the Pays-Bas,
had face quite covered with a long
and strong beard.
There was Swedish woman enlisted
among the grenadiers of Charles XII,
who had beard foot and half long.
She was made prisoner at the battle Of
Pultowa, and carriedt to st. Petersburg,
where she was presented to the Car
in 1924.
Inthe Cabinetof Curiosities at Slut
gard is to be seen the portrait of a wo
man named Bartel Graetje, whose chin
is dakened with an outrageous beard.
In 1926, the Carnival at Venice
was remarkable for dancer of the first
sin sex, who astonished the gay world
no lesa by her remarkable grace than
by the black and profuse beard upon her
chin.
There is race of women in Ethiopia,
aacording to Leblon, who are heavily
bearded.
1t is recorded in the Pogonias, that
the women of Athens wore artificial
boards, which they arranged with most
illusory effect upon their cheeks, from
their own hair, and which enabled them
to figure upon the ramparts as soldiers.
The women of Lombardy, at one
time, formed themselves into military
companies, and wore artificial boards,
but continued the fashion of boards long
after they had given up fife and drum,
and ceased wishing to repel or be formi-
dable.
Cicero records law against the prac-
tice of some secret by which the Roman
women were at one time enabled to pro-
duce beard.
A police report, of France, in 1845,
mentions witness, who, on being sum-
moned to the stand as Madame Lefort, |
showed bearded face above the crowd. |
The magistrate reminded the sheriff that
it was lady who was called, not gen
tleman-but the subsequent appearance
of the shoulders and chest corrected his
misapprehension, though the court was
silent, for some seconds, with astonish-
nent at the beard.
A case of SANDER occasioned some
trouble at Paris in the time of Louis /
XII, arising from curious misappre-
lension. A Monsieur Vaucelas called
IN widow, Madame Pilou, to inquire
as to the renting of house. Her init
nate friend, Madame de Castillo, chan
led to have shared her bed the night
previous, and the gentleman calling ear
y, was asked to speak to the fair pro-
orietress, without troubling her to rise.
She had been in the habit of making
herself younger looking, by shaving;E
and was, at that time, living in seclusion,
but in the enjoyment of a luxuriant
beard. Mons. Vaucelas, seeing one of
the occupants of the bed bearded and
the other not, naturally mistook the
matter and circulated an Injurious re-
port accordingly. 1t was corrected /
but not till after some perplexinc cir
cumstances. 7,
The ''Menagiana" gives the follow;no
uncomplimentary explanation of the REQ,
son why ladies are not bearded bv ma
ture:
5ais tn pourquoi, cher camarade
Le beau sexe nest point barbu7
8abillard counme el est, on 'aurait jamais mn
Le raser sans estaflade.
,r, in simple English, because a woman
never could hold her chin still long
.nough to be shavedl