Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1896 — Women Charmed by Ugly Men. [ARTICLE]

Women Charmed by Ugly Men.

The illustrious men in history who were 'distinguished as much for the .fascination wjdefc they exercised over the fair sex ass or their talents and ability were, as a rule, plain and insignificant In appetence. Julius Caesar was a very ill-favored man, and yet when a mere stripling, before his fame in Rome girls of his own age sighed for him and mature' women longed for his love. Among the men of later times who were renowned in like manner were Sir Philip Sidney, plain almost to ugliness; Paul Scarron, the comic poet, a cripple; Voltaire, unmistakably ugly; and Rousseau, whose tn&naers were as awkward as Msface w;as plain, while John "Wilkes, who had the power to subjugate any woman who spoke to him for even five minfftes, was admitted by his own showing to be the ugliest man in England In his time.