Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1893 — They Employ Ugly Old Women. [ARTICLE]

They Employ Ugly Old Women.

When a Chinese girl is married, her attendants are always the oldest and ugliest women to be found in the neighborhood, who are paid to act as foils to her beauty. It is said that some exceptionally ugly old women make their liviDg by acting as professional attendants at weddings.