Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-05-06
UGLY MEN WHO WE'RE FAMOUS.
Their Pianness No Bar to Their Sue
cess as Wooers.

mo woman worthy of the name"
wrote one of the loveliest ladies in
London society recently, really cares
a brass farthing whether the man she
honors with her hand is handsome or
ugly so long as he possesses the manly
qualities of brains, physical strength,
nonor and so on which make powerful
appeal to our sex"
And certainly history supports this
rather unconventional view. says Tit
Bits, for many of the plainest men of
whom we have any record have not
only won pretty and well lowered
brides but have been able to pick and
choose among the fairest to the cOnfu-
sion of their more well favored rivals.
Was there ever a palmer wocer. we
wonder than John Wilkes, the famous
champion of popular liberties and one
of the most dissOlute rOues of his day?
So ugly was Wilkes that the very chill
dren ran away shrieking at sight Of
him in the streets. and yet such was
the spell he cast over women that Ia
each other for his notice, while men Of
handsome exterior and all courtly
graces looked enviOusly and impotent-
ly on"
GIVE me a quarter Of an hours
start" he used to boast, and l will win
any lady's hand against the nandsom-
est man in England" And he could
have done it too. There were few
beauties, however fair or highly
placed, whose hands could not have
been his for the asking, and i'm the
very early '20s he won for his wife one
of the loveliest heiresses of the time,
lady who refused more than one
coronet to be his bride.
Beauty and the Beast they call
u.s." Wilkes once said to friend, and
really cannot find fault with the de-
scription."
Brougham. the great lord chancellor,
was a man Of almost repellent ugli-
ness, without a solitary cOmpensating
grace Of speech or manner. Conscious
of his unattractiveness he Stunned la
dies society as he might have Stunned
the plague. And what was the result?
The ladies, the most lovely and aristo-
cratic in the land. simply mobbed the
ugly lawyer" and were as proud to
win a smile from him as an offer of
coronet from any other man.
When any one asked, Where Is
BrOugham?" the invariable answer wa,
Where the ladies are thickest." And,
sure enough, there he was: and the
more he repeled mis- fair prosecutors,
the more they clustered round him.
Another famous lady killer was
Jean Paul Marat, one of the leading and
most Infamous figures in the French
Revolution. Beyond any question"
wrote a contemporary, m. Marat is
the ugiest man in the whole of France
and not merely ugly but positively
repulsive in person. habits and man
ners."
And yet in his early years he was
beyond rivalry the most popular physi-
clan in Paris. His consulting rooms
were crowded daily by the loveliest
women in the French capital, pushing
and jostling to get a word with or per-
haps win a smile from him. That he
turned a deaf ear and cold shoulder to
their allurements only stimulated their
ardor, until their attentions became so
embarrassing that at one time he Seri-
ously meditated flight.
Even when he contracted q lOath
some skin disease while hiding in the
sewers of Paris, he was devotedly
nursed by one of the lOveliest of mis-
many admirers, whom he married one
fine day in the presence Of the sun"
If possible a still more repulsive man