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Show Barred Women' frem 8me. One rule ot the original Olympic games could set be followed nowadays without provoking serious' trouble. Women were net allowed to be pres. ent or even to bo aaywbere In the dlatilot when the games were being celebrated, on pain ot being hurled from a precipitous rock. This rule 1 believed to have boon HdoAed only one, when the' offender Was pardoned In consideration of the fact that her father, brothers and son had boon victors vic-tors In the games. Oho particular priestess, however, was wot only ex rapt from this law, but was accom modatod with a speelat front seat on an altar ot white morbto, and women woro allowed to otttor dim lota for the races, though they might not bo pro eat to see thorn wha, |