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Show "The Head of Spite." A hugo, hideous face of a woman Is fixed on a houso In P.erlln, and Is known as "Tho Head of Splto." Thd Emperor William I. had It erected as a warning against rancorous III will. Tho Emperor stopped ono day at a blacksmith's to havo his horso's shoe reflxed. Next door was a rival black' smith, and tho daughter of this man of musclo put her tonguo out and distorted dis-torted her face, which was never very protty, with a horrible grin, In order to show her contempt for tho King. Ills Majesty took no notlco of tho Insult In-sult at tho time, but tho noxt day he ordered a well known German sculptor sculp-tor to produco In wood a monstrous faco of a woman with a tonguo lolling out of the mouth. Tho Emperor hlra-Belf hlra-Belf superintended tho fixing of this strango .ornament abovo tlin doorway! of tho blacksmith's shop, whoro tho'fiP bred woman resided, and thcro It has remained ever since. |