Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-25

say. the show was decided success, which
goes to prove that, contrary to common
belief, there are some women sufficiently
ugly to be conscious of their defect
There were fourteen competitors, and by
all accounts every one of them deserved a
prize; indeed, some one suggested that
while considering TO whom TO award the
prizes the judges had worn smoked glasses
in order to save their feelings. However
that may have been, the winner Of the first
prize-a woman of twenty-four years-was
the wife OF local frame maker and the
mother Of five children.
In the German town of Haschmann II is
an annual custom TO award cash prizes
to the ugliest girl OF the year, also to the
most crippled, and to a woman OF more
than forty summers who mad at least two
lovers at different times, but lost them.
These prizes are provided by the interest
derived from sum OF money LETT by q
wealthy Haschmann philanthropist, and are
really intended to encourage local men TO
marry the ugly. the crippled and the re-
jected but In this matter they do not ap-
pear to be very effective. though the prize
to the ugliest girl generally amounts TO
about G15, and that of the cripple to some
s12, while $40 usually falls TO the woman
of blighted affection.
An interprising Chicago shopkeeper some
time ago hit upon very novel method or
advertising some toilet preparations he had
| placed upon tIe market lie uTtsStO iAfS
window very attractively, and on small
table in the center laid bottle of each
of his toilet preparations and row OF
100 glistening dollars, with the announce
ment that both cash and stuff would be
awarded to the plainest woman under
thirty who would make claim TO them per-
sonally at the shop within fourteen days
During the first week more than 9Oo
claimants entered the shop, and the great
majority of them bought something on re-
ceiving the shopkeeper's polite assurance
that they could not possibly hope TO win
the prize-not because they were beyond
the age limit for they obviously were not,
etc His smile was of the most fiattering
kind, and he was genius at a eompli-
ment
During the second week nearly 1900
young women claimed the prize, though IL
was palpably clear most of them would
have been deeply offended by being de-
elared the winner; and the business In the
beauty unguents doomed amazingly. In the
end the award was made to servant girl,
who demonstrated her Indifference to the
reflection cast on her personal appearance
by pocketing the dollars and rejecting the
toilet preparations.
But the biggest prize ever offered for an
ugly girl was disguised in matrimonial
advertisement which appeared two OF three
years ago In an American paper me ao-
vertiser wished to correspond with young
woman between twenty and Twenty-Five
years, who was ugly, domesticated ana IN
happy at home-yiew, matrinlohy.
Although apparently a joke, this was real
" the offer of the prize OF husband,
splendid home and share IN an income
ranging between $4,000 and G10,O0o year.
For the advertiser was a rich ranchinan,
who had twice been tilted by pretty women,
and In consequence had decided 20 mar
ry a plain minded. piaiper-faced young
woman of humble birth, who might have
in her heart the beauty she lacked in her
face The winner of this splendid prize was
a Canadian girl. the daughter of police-
man.