UGLIEST WOMAN.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 549, 16 July 1920, Page 2

UGLIEST WOMAN.

NOVEL COMPETITION. A lady from London arrived in New I York recently under contract with | Barnum and Bailey to compete for the prize of the plainest white woman in the world. I withhold her name, writes the New York correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph, but she proudly asserts that j her face is her fortune, arvd at an j English seaside resort last year she j easily came first as the ugliest wo--1 man on record. I have seen her, and I can report that she is far from be- , ing a beauty, but she has a pleasant, cheerful disposition. She has two j line boys, and is happily married. I Asked whether her husband ever comt plained, my fellow-countrywoman replied, "George likes me best as 1 1 am." It is only within the last few ! years," she said, "I was reminded of the advantage of an exceedingly plain face, and though discouraged by all my relations, I willingly accepted Barnum and Bailey's offer." Unless local patriotism, which, in most things, runs strong in New York, has any influence, the newcomer need fear little competition in the entries running into hundreds. Some of the competitors' portraits published here to-day are enough to make a man weep. J