The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-22
From Tit Bits.

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 rex TO woman worthy of the
 M name" wrote one of the
 ] loveliest ladies In London society recently, really cares brass r. rtbinp whether the man she honors with her hand is handsome or ugly so long as he possesses the manly qua ities of brains, physical strength non or and so on which make such power ful appeal to our sex
 And certainly history supports tnls rather unconventional view, Tor many of the plainest men of whom we nave anv record have not only won pretty and well-dowered brides, but have been able to pick and choose among 'ne fairest. to the confusion or their iioro well-favored rivals.
 Was there ever a palmer wooer' We wonder, than John Wilkes, the ia" nous champion of popular liperties anu one of the most dissolute roues or ms davq So-ugly was Wilkes that the very obi,dren ran away shrieking at sight of him in the streets and yet such was tbe smell he cast over women tlu' "1adies of beauty and fashion vied with each other for his notice, while men or ,anasome exterior and all courtly .races looked enviously and impotent- ly on.'
 .cive me quarter of an hours etart" he used to boast and Will win any lady's hand against the haho- somest man in England. Ana ne couii Lava done 1t. too. There were few peau- ,;as however fair or highly placec' whose hands could not have been ms for tha asking, and in the very carry twarties he won for his wife one or ,,,a 1oveliest heiresses of the time--a Iodv who refused more than one cor onet to be his bride.
 ".Beauty and the Beast, they call us.. Wilkes once said to friend, ana
 .u,, cannot find fault with the de- scrption."
 Rroupham. the great lord ohancel- Tor was man of almost repeileHl ueliness, without solitary cohipeh- eatinr grace of speech or manner. con scious of his unattract1veness ne sh,nrad ladies' society as he might have summed the plague. Ana Wha' ,,os tbe result? The ladies-the most ,,ve1v and aristocratic in the land .imnlv mobbed the "ugly lawyer and were as proud to win smile 1ro" him as an offer of coronet from any other man. T.,
 When any one asked, Where Is 1,rougbam?" the invariable answer was "Where the ladies are thlckest. And sure enough, there he was; and tho more he repelled his fair perse- ,,tars the more they clustered round him.
 Another famous "lady Killer was Jean Paul Marat, one of the leaoihs and most infamous figures Tn the French revolution. Beyond any ques- tion." wrote a contemporary, M. Ma rat is the ugliest man in the whole oy France-and not merely ugly, but positively repulsive in person. haoils and manners" ;e
 And vet in his early years he was beyond rivalry, the most popular phy- sician in Paris. His consulting rooms were crowded daily by the loveliest women in the French capital, push . ing and jostling to get word with or perhaps win a smile from him. s'na' re turned a deaf ear and cold shoui der to their allurements only stimu- la ted their ardor, until their attentions became so embarrassing that at one time he seriously meditated flight.
 Even when lie contracted loath some skin disease. while hiding In the sewers of Paris, he was devoteuis nursed by one of the lovefiest or his many admirers. whom he married one day in the presence of the sun.' If possible still more repulsivt man was Cotemkin. the ex-private sol dier who enslaved the fancy of Gather inc the Great, and by her favor was made virtually Czar of Russia, Dread ful and repulsive." was the description of him by one who knew him. He Ipas an unwicldy figure and knock. knees; is swarthy of skin, coarse il