The Washington times., 1920-04-18

"Polaire claims to be the ugliest woman
ON the French stage. think her claim
has not been disputsd. Well, we stadisd
Mile. Polairss natural gifts Of uglinsss
and gave Il upl We 'transformsd her.
yes, but BY the simple trick Of covering up,
blottins out all of her features except
her eyes,"
venture stirred In her. Unconsciously she
took the pose the dignined dress demand.
ed. We put on her hat and draped and
wired her veil. She took one look at her.
self and went proudly out to face the audi
ence from which she had shrunk. She had
the deep, unshakeable confidence of one
who knows she is looking well.
I'VE peeped out at her, as we had done
when she made her sorry first appearance.
Then she had walked In q huddled, un-
calmly way. That was because she was
wearing too many clothes. Her individu-
ality was smothered in them.
1--WE looked at each other with the air
of conquerors. For we> had helped her.
BY us she had conquered. Had we
achieved a miracle? We had. The miracle
of freeing the individual. The secret of
good dressing is individualism. =.
"It sounds strange to say that women
can learn lesson In dressing from men.
An ugly man dresses with the utmost
plainness. Only pretty woman can afford
to wear snowy, much-trimmed gowns or
gaudy hats"
One little remark had attracted the ear
Of the writer-what about Mile. Po1aire?
"Oh, yes!" replied the visiting French
milliner. "Polaire claims to be the pgliest
woman on the French stage. think her
lnl- I..a III
studied Mile. Polaire's natural gifts OF
ugliness and gave 1t up! Wei trans
formed her, yes, but by the simple trick
Of covering up, blotting out all of her
features except her eyes,"
Much OF human nature was revealed
by the search for an ugly girl. Character
istic letters were received from the sppli-
cants. Wrote one:
"T am sending you the picture OF my.
self, the homeliest girl and the handsomest
cat in the world" But the association de-
scried certain marks Of beauty in her and
declined the modest candidate. Another
girl wrote:, 81 am very plain looking. l
have brown hair and gray eyes. What
could be homelier7 I am not desirous Of
the clothing,only the money, for am to
be student Of an art school and do need
that hundred A Boston girl wrote
hastily: II think am terrible homely.
hope you will think so. read your adver
tisement for homely girl to try on hats
Now, do you really want homely person
or will plain one do? Can you make any
kind Of person look good in a hatl / find
II very hard to get hat that improves ME
It is mostly the other way. have had IN,
experience Of being laughed at more tura
once" Writes another: This Is the frot
time / have ever known a homely girl 70
have chance at any good thing. am
glad. For surely you will agree that there
may be charms, even though one does not
possess beauty. And we homely girls GER
tainly do feel slighted N times.
A Pennsylvania country girl wrote
naively: II am not exactly ugly, but when
have an old hat on I look awful. In a
new hat Of good quality look like a DIFF
ferent girl" A Roxbury, Mass, girl writes
pertly: What girl on earth. do you
imagine, would want to admit that sheis
homely for 500, a new Spring gown and
several hats7 Not for millions Of dollars.
You don't know human nature"
One girl whose OFFER TO pose as the
ugliest model was declined because she
was pretty went out joyfully: Il didn't
want your old prizes anyway; only came
on a bet"