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Show Womaa with WhUkcra. : Bearded women have existed in all periods of the world's history. Even Herodotus, tho "Father1 of History," gives us an account of one Pedasnes, "who lived above Halicarnassus," a piiTstess of Minerva, whose chin regn- ' larly budded with a large beard whenever when-ever any public calamity impended. See Herodotus, book I., page 75. Bar-tel Bar-tel Garetji, a woman of Copenhagen, had a beard reaching to her waist. Charles XII. of Sweden had a female 1 grenadier in his army who possessed the beard as well as the courage of a man. Margaret, duchess of Austria and governess of the ISctherlands, had a large, wiry, stiff beard, of which she was very proud. Of late years, Albert, duke of Bavaria, repcrts havinfr had a younpr lady governess in his household who was the '"proud possessor of a very large bla"k ' |