The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-01
PRETTY WOMEN LOVE UGLY MEN.
Some Instances of This Strange
Rules Workings.
From The chicago Tribune.

Rules Workings.
From the Chicago Tribune.
One Of the most remarkable traits
in the femenne organism is the ten
dency Of women to fall in love with
men whose plainness of feature Is OBJ
vious to the point of positive ugliness,
and in all ages and countries this ten
dency has been strikingly demon
strated.
Mirabeau, one of the leading spirits
OF the French revolution, a man
whose face was hideously pock-mark-
ed and whose figure was short and I'M
wieldly, exercised a fascination over
the fair sex which was little short of
marvellous. 1t is said, indeed, that no
woman could resist this Caliban Of
politics, whose only attractiveness lay
in his undoubted gift OF eloquence.
After his death his rooms were found
to contain numberless love letters
from all sorts and conditions of wo-
men, many of whom declared their
passion in hypeTbOiic strain. And yet
Mrabeau was so ugly that his hid
eousness passed into a byword in the
streets of Paris at the period in ques-
ton.
At the present time there is a wo-
man confined in a private asylum,
suffering from melancholia brought
about by an unrequited love affair.
The object of this unfortunate crea-
lures worship is a certain comic sin
ger whose pretentions to good looks
are anything but great, and, as mat
ter of fact. he is considered by many
people to be the ugliest comedian upon
the stage.
For many months the admiring girl
wrote ardent letters to the player,
and, moreover, was In the habit of
awaiting his exit from the stage door,
when she would press upon him flow
ers, 1ewelry, and other gifts. Even
tually her conduct became so pro-
nounced that the actor, who is mar
lied man, communicated with her
parents, and the latter took the young
woman away from the city forthwith.
However, she pinned incessantly after
her unsightly hero, and soon had to
be conveyed to the sanitarium, where
she now remains-a victim of hope
less passion for one whose uglineSs is
as conspicuous as his talent.
Some years ago the writer encoun-
tered a charming woman who in
formed him that she possessed an ab"
solute worship for plain-featured men,
There was a certain pathos in their
her deep admiration; and eventually
she proved her consistency by marry
ing a gentleman whose countenance
went further to prove the Darwinian
theory of the relationship of man to
the ape than a thousand discourses on
the subject could go, the marriage,
however, being an exceedingly happy
union.
A case which recalls the topsy-turvi-
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Dream" comes from Prague, where one
of the handsomest girls in that city
of fair women has recently espoused a
young merchant of surprisingly ugly
facial characteristics and boasting q
stature of five feet only. The maiden
had previously refused the offers of
more than one handsome and wealthy
sutton, and she averred that love had
not dawned in her heart until the mo-
ment when she beheld her dwarf-like
and ugly admirer. The pair are known
to their friends by the Bohemian
equivalent for Beauty and the Besat"
"a description which will doubtless
adhere to them through their married
lives.
Not many years ago a criminal Of
revolving appearance was placed in the
dock of an American court to undergo
his trial for various huge frauds. 1t
may, perhaps, hardly be credited, but
it is nevertheless fact that this indi-
Nidual was shown, in the course of the
evidence, to have fascinated no fewer
than seven women, four of whom were
of good family and education.
Even when his foul misdeeds became
known to them, these seven women
continued to write impassioned letters
to the object of their affection; nor
did the mans hopeless ugliness seem
to affect their worship any more than
his crimes had served to do. He was
sentenced to a long term of imprison-
ment. during which time he received
various visits from the foolish females
who ought certainly to have trans
ferred their devotion to some worthiec
if not handsomer fellow-creature.
Pathetic enough was the case of q
young shop assistant who fell in love
with a male employee in the same es-
Enlistment. a man of exceedingly
plain countenance. The latter, who was
already engaged to be married, natu-
rally rspelled the girls advances
whereupon she drowned herself in the
adjacent canal. leaving note wherein
she actually stated that # was his un-
d0tbted ugliness which had first led
her to think about him.