Show FASCINATION ABOUT ABOUTUGLY UGLY MEN There was perhaps as much truth as boasting In the statement of John Wilkes the famous London Alderman and champion of British electors iUe ly I as I am If I can have but a quarter of an hours start I will get the baiter of any man however goodlooking In the graces of any worn a ixI pays tie Plttsburg ChronicleTelegraph Of Wllkess abnormal ugliness there waD never any question for Is It not recorded re-corded that the very children In the street ran away affrighted at the night of him And yet bin powers of fascination fas-cination were so great that Indies of beauty and fashion vied with each other for his notice while men of handsome hand-some exterior and nil courtly graces looked enviously on There were It Is paid few beauties of the day whose hand Wllkes might not have confidently hoped l to win and when he led JMury Mead to the altar he made a t wife of one of the richest and most lovely women of her LIme Beauty and the Beast they cojl us Wilkes once said to his friend Potter and I cannot honestly Ilnd fault with the description Jean Paul Marat whose name will always bo associated with the evil his tory of the French revolution was no toriously the ugliest man of his day In Paris Then this reputation reached his ears Marat IB said to have re marked But why limit my supremacy to Parlsnnd Indeed the restriction wan much too modest And yet in his earlier years when he was the most popular of court doctors his very ugliness ugli-ness seemed to exercise such a fascina Lion over aristocratic ladles that they = crowded huts consulting roomj In order to catch a glimpse of md 1 to exchange words with him under the flimsiest pre texts of Imaginary ailments Although there were few plainer men of his generation than the great Lord Brougham and as few who took eo lit the trouble to Ingratiate Vi ° inaf > IVLs Into the favor of women tIll brilliant lawyer and statesman might at one lime have picked and chosen among the fairest of society beauties No man who cured so little for fomnlo society had surely ever so much of It thrust upon himto such an extent Indeed that when any one asked Where Lord Brougham wan the Usual answer was Where the ladloH are thickest and by following this nlgnlficant guide hI was generally run to earlh |