Show jester jesters nothing better illustrates the daline I 1 ot 01 in the middle ages than the custom used by all high placed and anti wealthy withy persons of keeping a aanal I jester nor was it confined to christendom for we read that cortez r found an individual of this tills profession at the court of montezuma Mont czuma oar our modern cl clowns owns though very different from front the it licensed jesters of old owe to them of 01 co course urse their origin but BO so far as I 1 know W the female jester who was in vogue before the male has no present present atho i vf 1 I I 1 X 1 1 we weare are told by erasmus that dinall in all the great inns on the continent there was in ins his time a female official of this description who enlivened the company as EDO eho waited at table able t by witti cismas and repartee it should bo be added however that she waa was generally young and pretty so lato late as 1838 we read in mrs travels that sho she found a female jester at constantinople who was exceedingly amusing london illustrated lust last rated news |