Show Love Homely Men I has been eutimutcd that there arc only 50000 really handsome men in the United States Therefore be of good cheer you of the 32OiiO000 for surely in our numbers we can hide our dlstreoa And no more need we of average beamy or lack of Itbe Jealousof him of handsome form and countenance for the worlds great love affairs idiom we should be equally watchful of the 50000 men who are liotiltlvoly ugly There was as much truth as boasting the the statement of John Wllkcc the famous London Alderman Ugly as I am If I can have but a quarter of an hours start I will get the better oC any man however good looking In the graces of any woman Of Wilkesn abnormal ugllnesD there was never any question The children In the street ran away affrighted at the sight of him And yet his powers of fascination wcio so great that women of beauty and fashion vied with each other for his notice while handsome men of allcourtly graces were neglected J vns said that there were few beauties of the day whose hand Vilkes might not have confidently hoped to win He married one of the richest and loveliest women of Me time Boautr and the Benst they call UH Wilkes once saId to a friend and I cannot honestly find l faUlt with the description That there Is ppwerful I fascination some women In extreme ugliness Is proved by innumerable crises In which women who have been richly dowered with physical charms have fallen in love with men of almost repulsive appearance ap-pearance Queen Wilhelmina IB an example of I charming and attractive young woman choosing an ugly inan Fat and plain 0 face and for a royal person distinctly povertystricken Prince Helnrjch of MecklcnburgSchwerln has had great fascination fas-cination for womankind < nuLon Gossips whispered that the young Duke was taken by surprise when the little Queen of Holland showed her preference for him and yet It was not time first time that he had been admired and courted by women of high rank When PrlnccHH Helena of Russia suddenly broke her engagement with Max of Baden It was believed to be because she hoped to persuade her parents to let her marry the stout blonde Dukeling Heinrlch and the youngcst daughter of the Duke of Edinburgh also loved the young Duke though In vain In fact Prince Heinrlch was unusually fascinating and he knew It Nelpperg an ugly creature with small abilities and yet smaller fortune wan Napoleon Bonapartes rival In the affection of Marie Louise who fell furiously fu-riously In love with him With everything to lose and nothinG to gain by her encouragement of the man she left no tone unturned until she was able to make herself Neippcrgs wife In the eyes o the world it was 1 terrible degradation degrada-tion for the widow of the French Emperor to become the wife of an Austrian Count but she cared not a whit what thin world said as wan the case with the women who ran after the ugly Duke Oe Richelieu When Richelieu was abut up In the bastllo crowds of women old and young rich and poor used to collect every day at the hour when he took his exercise on the parapets and adore him from a distance deploring1 the Incarceration ot so adorable a person When Liszt was an old man with a hard ugly face women bogged permission permis-sion to kiss his ugly hands and raved over him as though he were Adoniss self Dozens of schoolgirls and Countesses who worshiped at his shrIne cared not a pin for his music nor understood a note of 1 but were keenly alive to the charm of his personality There were few plainer men of his generation than the great Lord Brougham and as few who tookso little trouble to Ingratiate themselves into the favoi of women Yet he might have picked and chosen among the fairest of society beauties To a cues lonwhere Lord Brougham was the answer was once Slvcn Where the ladles are he I thickest By following this significant guide he was generally run to earth Perhaps the reason oc the attractiveness of the plain man Is that he Is not vain He cant be l of his face at any rate A pretty man IH a nuisance one girl was overheard to say 1 mean the man who has curls whore chocks are red and who poses In public places where he may be easily seen and who always wears a sleek smile on his thoughtless face He is a nuisance because of his conceit Girls grow weary of looking at Tribune him but he stillJceopB in the way believing he Is giving them 1 treat Chicago |