Women With Beards

Nature is a very " eontrairy" female. Tho othet sax re perfeotly willing to relinquish all right aud titlo to Jhis pecnliarly imisculine featuro, }"et, rwlens valens, they ave obliged to bear it. Maobeth had rio rcason for doubt when ho said tj the witches : - " You should bo vromen, Yet yourbir.ls iorbid ma to uiterprjt That you are uot s .,' for Maratret óf Pinna, Govornoss of the Netherjunds, lnul a fine growth. of which sho was very proud. Charles XII. ot' Swedeü had also a í'amous female grenadier who hitd a be'ará mes'uring a yard and a hi)f : nfter bravely flghting at the battle oí Pultowa she was taken priaoiier and proseivíed tu the Cz.ir. In the museum at Stuttgart there is a picture of afamous bearded woman nained Birtol Groetje; and in our own timys who does nut ïeinember the celebratsd beaided lady of the side-showp and nircuses? And hut a fo.vr weeks ugo a Broadway c;ir in New York eoutained one ot' tlie fiuest specimens in private life, and the wearer bare tiie serutiny tiud iistonishmeiu of the car ia jitter unoonsciousness. Many vromen have that tuint suggpst;on on Ilie upper lip which the Freueh espi.'cially adiiiir, mntling a virtne of a necessity, probably But it is uot coveted on this side of the water. In addition to this a beautiful young lady pvoinisi's just the very cunninüest imperial whiuh shé lias coinbated sevri'al ye i!. ; witb oourt-jrfaster, and fiaa-lly with tweezers. Duiing the oourt-plaster peribd sho was tnnkiug the tour of fhe lakes; having ninda many friendsshe whs obliged to i üi't trom tln-m, and on biddiug t'ueni gool-liy a:i ilderly gentleman whispered m her eav," " My dear, take sroo'l nare of thut little imperial." She rushed frawtioally to the glass. Tho e.mrt-]ilaster was g'ne. She never trudted it again.