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Article RISE AND FALL OF BEARDS. ← Page 4 of 4 Article AN ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH OF THE COUNTESS CORNELIA BAUDI, OF CESENA; Page 1 of 5 →
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Rise And Fall Of Beards.
Dictionary , that there was a woman seen at Paris , who had not only a bushy bea . d on her face , but her body likewi > e covered all over with hair . Among a number of other examples of this nature , that of Margaret , the governess of the . Netherlands , is very remarkable . She had a very long stiff beard . Which she prided herself on ; aud , being persuaded that if contributed to gb'e her an air of majesty , she
took care not to lose a hair of it . This Margaret was a very great woman . It is said Ut . it the Lombard women , when they were at war , made themselves beards with th .. hair of their heads , which they ingeniously arranged on their cheeks , in order that the enemy , deceived by the likeness , mig ht rake them for men . It is asserted , after Suidas , that , in a similar case , the Athenian women did as much . These
women were much more men tlnvi many of our Jemmi -Jessamy countrymen . —About a century ago , tlie French ladies adopted the mode of dressing their hair in such a manner that curls hung clown their cheeks as far as their bosoms . These curls went by the name of whiskers . This custom undoubtedly was not invented , after the example of the Lombard womento frighten the men . Neither is it
, with intention to cany on a very bloody war , that in our time they have affected to bring forward the hair of the temple on the cheeks . The discovery seems to have been a fortunate one , since it gives them a tempting look .
An Account Of The Death Of The Countess Cornelia Baudi, Of Cesena;
AN ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH OF THE COUNTESS CORNELIA BAUDI , OF CESENA ;
WHO WAS CONSUMED BY A FIRE KINDLED IN HER OWN BODY . WITH AN INQUIRY INTO THE CAUSE , SUPPORTED BY INSTANCES OF A LIKE NATURE . JBv J . BIANCHINi , PREBENDARY OF VERONA .
HPHIS lady was in her sixty-second year , and well all day , till ¦*• ni g ht , when she began to be heavy . After supper she was put to bed , and talked three hours with her maid ; at last , falling asleep , the door was shut . In the morning , the maid going to call her , saw her corpse in this deplorable condition : —Four feet distant from the bed was a heap of ashestwo legs untouchedthe stocking on ;
be-, , tween which lay the head , the brains , half the back-part of the skull , and thewh lie chin burned to ashes ; among which were found three fingers blackened . AU the rest was ashes ; which had this quality , that they left in the hand a greasy and stinking moisture . The air of the room had soot floating in it : a small oil-lamp on the floor was covered with ashes , but no oil in it . Of two candles which were on
the table , the tallow was -gone , but the cotton left ; some moisture about the feet of the candlesticks . The bed undamaged : the blankets and sheets only raised on one side , as when one gets out of bed . The whole furniture over-spread with moist , ash-coloured soot ; which penetrated the drawers , and fouled the linen . This soot even got into a neighbouring kitchen , hung on its walls and utensils ; and a
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Rise And Fall Of Beards.
Dictionary , that there was a woman seen at Paris , who had not only a bushy bea . d on her face , but her body likewi > e covered all over with hair . Among a number of other examples of this nature , that of Margaret , the governess of the . Netherlands , is very remarkable . She had a very long stiff beard . Which she prided herself on ; aud , being persuaded that if contributed to gb'e her an air of majesty , she
took care not to lose a hair of it . This Margaret was a very great woman . It is said Ut . it the Lombard women , when they were at war , made themselves beards with th .. hair of their heads , which they ingeniously arranged on their cheeks , in order that the enemy , deceived by the likeness , mig ht rake them for men . It is asserted , after Suidas , that , in a similar case , the Athenian women did as much . These
women were much more men tlnvi many of our Jemmi -Jessamy countrymen . —About a century ago , tlie French ladies adopted the mode of dressing their hair in such a manner that curls hung clown their cheeks as far as their bosoms . These curls went by the name of whiskers . This custom undoubtedly was not invented , after the example of the Lombard womento frighten the men . Neither is it
, with intention to cany on a very bloody war , that in our time they have affected to bring forward the hair of the temple on the cheeks . The discovery seems to have been a fortunate one , since it gives them a tempting look .
An Account Of The Death Of The Countess Cornelia Baudi, Of Cesena;
AN ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH OF THE COUNTESS CORNELIA BAUDI , OF CESENA ;
WHO WAS CONSUMED BY A FIRE KINDLED IN HER OWN BODY . WITH AN INQUIRY INTO THE CAUSE , SUPPORTED BY INSTANCES OF A LIKE NATURE . JBv J . BIANCHINi , PREBENDARY OF VERONA .
HPHIS lady was in her sixty-second year , and well all day , till ¦*• ni g ht , when she began to be heavy . After supper she was put to bed , and talked three hours with her maid ; at last , falling asleep , the door was shut . In the morning , the maid going to call her , saw her corpse in this deplorable condition : —Four feet distant from the bed was a heap of ashestwo legs untouchedthe stocking on ;
be-, , tween which lay the head , the brains , half the back-part of the skull , and thewh lie chin burned to ashes ; among which were found three fingers blackened . AU the rest was ashes ; which had this quality , that they left in the hand a greasy and stinking moisture . The air of the room had soot floating in it : a small oil-lamp on the floor was covered with ashes , but no oil in it . Of two candles which were on
the table , the tallow was -gone , but the cotton left ; some moisture about the feet of the candlesticks . The bed undamaged : the blankets and sheets only raised on one side , as when one gets out of bed . The whole furniture over-spread with moist , ash-coloured soot ; which penetrated the drawers , and fouled the linen . This soot even got into a neighbouring kitchen , hung on its walls and utensils ; and a