Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1902 — WOMEN’S LOVE FOR UGLY MEN. [ARTICLE]

WOMEN’S LOVE FOR UGLY MEN.

Btrikingljr Homely Man Seema to Fascinate Femininity. Extremes meet In the fickle femlnlpa fancy. The attractiveness of the Adonis for women Is not to be compared with that of the man who Is so fearfully and wonderfully ugly as to serve as a living confirmation of the truth of the Darwinian theory regarding the d®•cent of mnn. A bevy of lovely American girls have formed a society the object of which Is to search the land for the ugliest men to be found outside the museum, and when found to marry them as soon as possible. Ever since the time when Mlrabeau, the ugliest of all Frenchmen, had his host of female admirers, really hideous men have been worshiped by women. A careful study of the subject-shows that there must be something else besides the mere attractiveness of ugliness pure and simple. There must be at least of Intelligence In the apelike visage. A single gleam Is all that Is required. With this the ugly mnn assumes a fascinating appearance to the eyes of his female admirers, who probably value the adoration of a homely individual above the rippling fancy of a handsome man who holds his looks at vanity’s highest estimate. This extraordinary fondness of women for extremely ugly men Is seen when some especially villainous-look-ing criminal is exhibited in the dock and immediately becomes the idol of all the women who attend the trial. The more hideous his appearance and the fouler his misdeeds the more enthusiastic is tiie worship of the women. “He is so delightfully ugly,” said a pretty girl w r hen asked what particular fascination a brutal criminal possessed for her..

The reply was too enigmatical for the good-looking mnn, who would have given a great deal for one glance such as the girl cast in tiie direction of the hideous brute in tiie dock. The women who lavished flowers on the ill-favored criminal and daily gazed rapturously at him as he scowled about the court room might have explained the reason of their affection. To tiie men it is inexplicable, the more so as the creature showed not the slightest appreciation of tiie admiration that was being lavished upon him by the women who attended the trial. It is a fact, says tiie Philadelphia Times, that in all ages and countries this strange feminine tendency has been strikingly demonstrated. No explanation that seems plausible has ever been given.