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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (July 15, 1910)
.ATTHII UGLY MEN -Many Whose Face Frightened Little Children Were Noted Lady Killers. JOHN WILKES CAPTURED ALL. Married the Prettiest Heiress of His Time Fair Labeled ''Beauty ' and the Beast" Many of the plainest men of whom we have any record have not only won pretty and well-dowered brides, but have been able to pick and choose among the fairest, to the confusion of their more well-favored rivals. Was there ever a plainer wooer, we wonder, than John Wilkes, the famous champion of popular liberties and one of the most dissolute men of his day? asks Tit-Bits. So ugly was Wilkes that the very children ran away shriek ing at sight of him in the streets, and yet such was the spell he cast over women that "ladles of beauty and fash ion vied with each other for his notice, while men of handsome .exterior and ail courtly graces looked enviously on." "Give me a quarter uf uu ltuur's start," he used to boast, "and I will win any lady's hand against the hand somest man in England." And he could have done It, too. There were few beauties, however fair or highly placed, whose hands could not have been his for the asking, and in the very early '20s he won for his wife one of the loveliest heiresses of the time a lady who refused more than knees. Is swarthy of skin, coarse rn feature and has lost one eye. He often passes whole days In his room half dressed, uncombed, unwashed, biting his nails and scratching his untidy head." But perhaps the most remarkable of all these cases of woman's infatuation for ugly men was that of W. Hamil ton, a Scotsman of a century and a half ago. Hamilton was not only pre ternaturally ugly, but he was terribly deformed. "His legs," we are told, "were drawn up to nls ears, his arms were twisted backward and almost every member was out of Joint" In spite of these terrible physical drawbacks Hamilton easily outstripped all the gallants in his district in the favor of the ladies. "He might have married any of them for the asking indeed, it is said several of them ac tually asked him," says a chronicler. But he remained proof against all their wiles until after his eightieth birth day, and then he married a girl of 20, himself being carried to the altar on men's shoulders. Electricity Wins Washing Race. At the recent electrical show in Chi. cago electricity won a very pretty race with band labor to see who could wash the most clothes in a, given time. Five pretty girls, ' operating new types of electric washing machines and motor-driven wringers, raced with six ladles of pronounced color who did their work by the world-old hand method, using the old fashioned wash tubs, wash boards and hand wringers. The fcii la butitcd the electric motors to work on the clothes and spent the most of their time laughing and chatting with the visitors while the machines ran themselves. The col ored women worked as hard as ever they could, for if they washed half as many clothes as the girls and elec tricity did they were to get one hun dred dollars. The suds flew fast and furious about the colored girls but HALLEY'S COMET IN THE EUROPEAN SKY. r .... ?T: s ,6; : iy - -M 1 ' , w-...t..Jt,v.-' Comet Venvxf The Moon. TKe Comel nea-r Venue s1 , k.tf S'e&n .t -PmtiV Trom L'lllui'trft.l FASHION HINTS There's lott of character tolhis suit of plain and striped pongee. The stripe is sort of an old blue, the same as the deep cuffs, and it tones so well with the natural color pongee. The knife pleated collar of net is s tew feature. one coronet to be his bride. " 'Beauty, and the Beast, they call us," Wilkes once said to a friend, "and really 1 cannot find fault with the descrip tion." Brougham, the great lord chancellor, was a man of almost repellant ugli ness, without a solitary compensat ing grace of speech or manner. When anyone asked, "Where is Brougham?" the invariable answer was, "Where cue ladles are thickest." And, sure enough, there he was; and the more he re pelled his fair persecutors, the more they clustered round him. Another famous "lady killer" was Jean Paul Marat, one of the leading and most infamous figures in the French revolution. "Beyond any ques tion," wrote a contemporary, "M. Marat is the ugliest man in the whole of France and not merely ugly, but positively repulsive in person, habits and manners." Even while hiding in the sewers of Paris, he was devotedly nursed by one of the loveliest of his admirers, whom be "married one One day in the pres ence of the sun." If possible, a still more repulsive man was Potemkin, the ex-private sol dier who enslaved the fancy of Cath erine the Great, and by her favor was made virtually Czar of Russia. 'Dread ful and repulsive" was the descrip tion of him by one who knew him. "He has an unwieldy figure and knnrV- when time was called they had not washed a third as many clothes as their contemporaries did, so they lost the prize, but were handsomely re warded for their honest work, demon strating the vast difference between ancient and modern laundry methods. Culture In the Home. Mother says that it is foolish To grow wrinkled, old and gray, To accumulate obesity is wrong; She contorts upon the carpet Every morn at break of day, Rolling thus, she's read, reduces "em bonk-pong." Ev'ry brand of paste and lotion, Forty kinds of germicide. Which will slay the bug of baldnesr In its lair, These my poor old frantle father Pertinaciously has tried To rejuvenate a sickly patch of hair My two sisters acrobatic Do their stunts with circus vim; Tho' I'm not so sure they'd care to have you there. But they keep their figures graceful, And their waist lines trim and slim, Just by standing on their heads beside a chair. H. II. Matteson in Life. The flora of Switzerland Is pecu llarly adapted to bee culture, and it Is estimated that 100,000,000 pounds of honey are made in that country each vear ODD GEOGRAPHICAL FAOTB. aian Point jLbont th TJlt4 tat Worth lUmcmbtrlnf. Among the many geographical pe tullarltles In the United States there are some especially Interesting. The two largest counties In the United States are Custer-County, Mon tana, and San Bernardino County, Cal ifornia. Each of these Is a little moe than 20,000 square miles In extent and the States of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, - Delaware and New Jersey could be put Inside the boundaries of either of them. The smallest county In the Union la Bristol County, Rhode Island, which" has only 25 square miles. The county In the United States hav ing the largest population la New rork, which has 2,000,000 people In It At the time of the last census Bailey County, Texas, which is about the size of the State of Rhode Island, had only four Inhabitants. . About 60 miles from Durango, Colo rado, there Is a. point where four States meet Here by .stepping a few feet In either direction one can walk in four different commonwealths in as many seconds. These commonwealths are the States of Colorado, Utah and the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona. A nearly parallel case Is at Harper's Ferry, where the train stops a few minutes to allow the Tiaasengers to alight and enjoy a view which per mits them to look Into three States Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. The highest and lowest elevations In this country are in California, within 100 miles of each other. The loftiest is Mt. Whitney, 14,499 feet high, and the lowest 1b Death Valley, about 450 feet below the level of the sea. Two Oceans Pass, in Yellowstone Park, Is so named because whenever there Is a shower in the vicinity and a certain small creek overflows, Its waters spread over the edge of the continental divide and pass into trib utaries of rivers which flow to the At lantic and to the Pacific The longest city street In the United States is Western avenue, Chicago, which Is exactly 22 mlies long. Its nearest rival Is Halsted street also In Chicago, which la two-thirds of a mile shorter. Halsted street la so much more closely built up that It is usually spoken of as the longest street In the world. Interspersed with the native Americans on this one street are Germans, Italians, Russians, Jews, Bohemians, Poles and Greeks. Hal ited street is crossed over and under by 20 railroads. A novel way to demonstrate the slse of the State of Texas Is to spread out i map of the Union and stretch a trlng across Texas the longest way. Then placing one end of the measure st Chicago, one will find that the other nd will extend Into either the Atlan ta Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico. """THlnt to Dollmnkerr Miss Lole Fuller, at a luncheon at Mrs. William Ellis Corey's. In New Tork, told a pretty story about one of her little dancing girls. "I asked her," said Miss Fuller, ''what she would like for Christmas. " 'I'd like a doll,' she answered. 'I wish, though, the dollmakers were Tiore religious.' "'Why, my dearf said L "'So as I could have a' kneeling doll,' she replied. 'All the dolls I ever saw have to be laid on their stom achs to say their prayers.' " Smith Wants Eggs We win par aa follows for ftrst-la pro duea. Ship bjr expraa. Veal .". IOC Pork 12c Live Hens 18c Live Spring Chickens, lb 20 to 22 c Egsra 25c Address FRANK L. SMITH MEAT CO. Tlehtlng the Beef Trust" PORTLAND, OREGON TEA SPICES BAKINO POWDER Vw J I EXTRACTS Jf K. JUST RIGHT' I K3 CIPSSEI A DEVEJB TJaXT 'PORTLAND. OUt.' J Dr. B. E. 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