UGLY MAN'S BOAST.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20596, 21 June 1930, Page 27 (Supplement)

UGLY MAN'S BOAST.

CHAMPION OF ENGLAND.

PRETTY WIFE'S OTHER VIEW.

" I am the ugliest man in England!'* This is the proud boast of Mr. James Y Alexander, a Nottingham factory hantjj He is so proud of his ugliness that hi, intends organising a competition for ugly men and women in order to prove that hi ia the ugliest of them all..- .It will bi open to the world, and no one, except' /; circus freaks, will he barred. ■ "I was born ugly, and I tfeem fo: have grown uglier every day of. my lifa,'* Mr. Alexander said in announcing hi intention. " I have a face like a monkey, the body of a human skeleton, and a nose out of all proportion to the rest of me. I have examined myself in the glass/ and I do not see' a single redeeming feature. lam just as ugly as theymafoi ; them." v: . • , There is one person, nowever, who does not share Mr. Alexander's .opinion of himself. That is his wife. ' lou ara not so bad as all that," she interrupted "I think ypu are quite good looking.'^ " Ah, you have grown used to me, replied the " ugly " husband. 1 Mr. Alexander declares that he has never found ugliness a handicap. , Instead ho says that his face has been his recommendation. . " People seem to trust a really .ugly man," he said. They seem to think : that a kind heart must beat under such an exterior. Children especially makfc [riends with me." . . Mr. Alexander's wife ■is a pretty woman who once won a beauty contest. "It's always tho same," her husband remarked. " The ugly men always get ' the pretty wives."