The San Francisco call., 1910-05-02
FAMOUS UGLY men
ADORED BY WOMEN
Pretty and Well Endowed Brides
Secured by Wooers Who
Lacked Good Looks

mo woman worthy of the name."
wrote one of the loveliest women in
London society recently, really cares
brass farthing whether the man she
honors with her hand is handsome or
ugly SO long as he possesses the manly
quality of brains. physical strength,
honor and SO on which make such a
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 con-
fusion of their more well favored
rivals.
Was there ever a palmer wooer. 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
children ran away shrieking at sight
of him in the streets, and yet such was
the spell he cast over women that
ladies of beauty and fashion We'd with
each other for his notice, while men
of handsome exterior and all courtly
graces looked enviously and impotently
on
BOAST OF UGLY WOOER
Give me a quarter of an hours
start he used to boast, ''and / will
win any lady's hand against the hand
soonest man in England" And he could
have done il, too. There were few
beauties however fair or highly placed,
whose hands could not have been his
e. 10 I'll
tWenties he won for his wife one of
the loveliest heiresses of the time-a
woman who refused more than one
coronet to be his bride.
Beauty and the Beast they call
u.s." Wilkes once said to a friend, and
really l can not find fault with the de-
scription."
Brougham, the great lord chancellor,
was man of almost repellent ugliness,
without a solitary compensating grace
of speech or manner. Conscious of his
unattractiveness he Stunned women S
society as he might have Stunned the
plague. And what was the result? The
women-the most lovely and aristo-
cratic in the land-simply mobbed the
ugly lawyer" and were as pround to
win a smile from him as an offer of a
coronet from any other man.
When any one asked Where is
Brougham?" the invariable answer was
Where the ladies are thickest." And,
sure enough. there he was; and the
more he repelled his fair prosecutors
the more they clustered round him.
REPULSIVE MEN POPULAR
Another famous lady killer" was
Jean Paul Marat, one of the leading
and most infamous figures in the
French revolution. Beyond any ques-
tion,' wrote contemporary. Mons.
Marat is the ugliest man in the whole
of France-and not merely ugly, but
positively repulsive in person. habits
and manners"
And yet in his early years he was,
beyond rivalry, the most popular ply
sician 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 deaf ear and a cold shoulder
to their allurements only stimulated
their ardor, until their attentions be-
came so embarrassing that at one time
he seriously meditated flight.
Even when he contracted a loathsome
skin disease, while hiding in the sewers
Of Paris. he was devotedly nursed by
one of the loveliest of his many admir-
ers, whom he married one fine day in
the presence of the sum-
If possible a still more repulsiye man
was Potemkin, the former private SOL
der who enslayed the fancy Of Cath
crime the Great and by her favor was
made virtually cZar of Russia. Dread
full and repulsive." was the description
of him by one who knew him.
INFATUATION OF WOMEN
He has an unwieldy figure and
knock knees; is swarthy of skin, coarse
in feature, and has lost one eye. He
often passes whole days in his room
half dressed, uncombed, unwashej, bit
ing his nails and scratching his untidy
head. And yet, says Durand, "the
empress is quite crazy over him, as is
proved by her passionate letters, in
which she addresses him as my lord >
my king my inestimable treasure .
But perhaps the most remarkable of
all these cases of woman's infatuation
for ugly men was that of W. Hamilton.
a Scotsman of century and a half
ago. Hamilton was not only prefer
naturally ugly, but he was terribly de-
formed. His legs" we are told, were
drawn up to his ears, his arms were
twisted backward. and almost every
member was out of joint"
In spite of these terrible nhvsicaJ
drawbacks Hamilton easily outstripped
all the gallants in his district in the
favor of the women. He might have
married any of them for the askine-
indeed, it is said several of them act
ually asked him. says a chronicIer.
But he remained proof against all their
wiles until after his eightieth birth
day, and then he married a girl of %
himself being carried to the altar on
mems shoulders.