The wonder book of freaks and animals in the Barnum & Bailey greatest show on earth : 1898.

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1898
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Credit: The wonder book of freaks and animals in the Barnum & Bailey greatest show on earth : 1898. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    Copyright,-] LALLOO AND LALLA. [A'^s-«/W. for Miss Jones is as thoroughly feminine in her dislike to stating her age (though she is not over 26), as she is in all other characteristics, except in the possession of that famous black beard. This entire absence of anything suggestive of masculinity is one of the most pleasing things in connection with Miss Jones' per- sonality. It comes, indeed, as a surprise, because most women who have been born with the masculine mark of the beard, have also possessed other sugges- ( 6 tions of the sterner sex. Seen in the street, with her beard hidden. Miss Jones is a very stylish and attrac- tive woman. The trick by which she hides this beard is a very clever one, and it is so effective that it is almost a pity to divulge the secret. The long beard is wrapped up and tied in a roll under her chin, like the knot on top of a woman's head. A band of black cloth is then tied around the chin, and a heavy veil fastened over the entire face. Meeting her in the street you would notice a decidedly pretty girl, with a pair of piercing black eyes shining through a thick veil, and would think that she suffered from a severe toothache, or was protecting her throat and mouth from the fog and wind. Miss Jones is exceed- ingly fond of music and fancy work, plays well on the mandoline and other instruments, and is extremely proud of her small hand and shapely foot. It will be noticed that the hair on Miss Jones' face does not grow below the ridge of the jaw bone, but is confined to the face proper, differing therein materially from the beard of men. Medical history does not record a more interesting case of double birth than that of LALLOO, the Double-Bodied Hindoo Boy. As the second, or smaller, body is that of a girl, he properly bears the double name of Lalloo and Lalla. He was born in Lucknow, India, twenty-three years ago. He visited London in 1888, when his case was reported in the British Medical Journal, and has been in America since that time. Lalloo is especially interesting to physicians, as his case is undoubtedly one of arrested twins, the union of the two bodies being carried to a much greater degree than in the case of the Siamese twins. The second, or female, body in Lalloo's case has '• no separate head, but is joined to him just below the sternum. The attachment seems to have been made at a point midway in the body of the undeveloped twin, as the arms and shoulders are attached by a bony growth to the lower part of his breast bone, and the main portion of the body and the lower limbs swing just below, entirely distinct, and with the vertebra of the back well defined. The upper limbs are united by a joint, so that they can be turned in any direction, but the lower section is fixed in such a manner that there is very little movement. There is no trace of a head, and a separate heart cannot be detected. There is a stomach, fed from Lalloo's, while the nerves of sen- sation are there, and communicate with Lalloo's nerve centres, so that he knows when any part of the second body is touched. But there is no reflex nervous power, and no voluntary muscular movement. Lalloo himself, aside from this excrudescence of a second body, is a very handsome fellow. He is well educated and quickwitted, and has accumulated a large fortune. For a number of years his weekly )