Arizona republican., 1906-03-23
GOOD PRIZES FOR UGLY GIRLS.

An interesting snowman in Milan. who had more than once organized sue cessfuI beauty shows. recently struck out in a new line by arranging what he styled an ugly" show whereat a number of women and girls competed for three prizes which were offered for the ugliest competitors And. strange to say, the show was a decided success which goes 10 prove that contrary to a common belief there are some women sufficiently ugly to be conscious Of their defect.
 There were fourteen competitors. and by all accounts every one deserved a prize; indeed someone suggested that while considering to whom to award the prizes the judges had worn smok- ed glasses in order to save the;r feel ings. 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. it is an annual custom to award cash prizes to the ugliest girl of the year. also the most crippled. and to a wo- man of more than forty summers who had 1t least two lovers at different times, but lost them.
 These prizes were provided by the interest derived from a sum of money left by a wealthy Haschmann phiIan- thropist. and are really intended to encourage local men to marry the ugly. the crippled and the rejected: but in this matter they do not appear to be very effective though the prize to the Ugliest girl generally amounts to about e15 and that of the cripple to that of some c12 while G1O usuaIly falls to the woman Of blighted affection.
 An enterprising Chicago shopkeeper some time ago hit upon a very novel method of advertising some toilet prep arations he had placed Upon the mar ket. He dressed his window very at tractively and on a small table in the center laid Q bottle of each of his toilet preparations and a row O. one hundred glistening dollars with the an nouncement that both cash and stuff would be awarded to the plainest wo- man under thirty who would make claim to them personally at the shop within fourteen days.
 During the first week more than 800 claimants entered the shop. and the great majority of them bought some thing on receiving the shopkeeper's polite assurance that they could not possibly hope to win the prize-not be- cause they were beyond the age limit. for they obviously were not. etc. His smile was the most flattering kind and he was a genius at a compliment.
 During the second week nearly 2O00 young women claimed the prize. though it is palpably clear most of them would have been deeply offended by being declared the winner. and the business in the beauty unguents boom ed amazingly. Tn the end the award was made to a servant girl. who dem onstrated her indifference to the re- fleCtion cast on her personal appear ance by pOcketing the dollars and re- jecting the toilet prepaTatio
 But the biggest prize ever offered for an ugly girl was disguised in a matri- monial advertisement which appeare1 two or three years go in an American parer- The advertiser wished to cor resnOnd with a woman between twenty and twenty-five ye7rs. who was ugly. dOmesticated and unhappy at home view. matrimony.
 Although apparently joke this was really the offer of the prize Of a hus- band. a splendid home and a share in an income between GS ono and e10.O1A year. For the advertiser was 9 rich ranchman who had twice been tilted hv pretty women and in consequence had decided 10 marry olaiD-minda5. plainer faced woman of humble birth. who might have in her heart the