Enraged Uncle Stands up for Harbin Lady Faow Our OWN CosnssroxDENT
Harbin, Feb, 22.
One of the local Russian papers started a beauty competition 8 short while ago, offering valuable prizes to the winners. As the Rus-Sians fall for anything new, the competition became the talk of the town, until a letter appeared in another paper, asking how it was that the lady with the most votes at the time could possibly be termed at all beautiful, and hinted genera' ly that the whole competition was 'a cheap way of getting in new subscriptions. Anuncle of the lady jin question, a well-known business man, visited the offices of the second newspaper in a highly excited state, calling the editor of the first paper all sorts of names for having started such a competition It was in vain that those present tried calm the excited gentleman, who, working himself into a frenzy, began throwing on the ground things lying on a desk, necessitating his forced removal from the office.
Both the papers belonging to the "Right" Russian press and the "Left" papers con: tinued "the " anti-beauty cat paign started by the indignant relation, Several articles appeared Stating that it was a disgrace for any self-respecting Russian wom: to let herself get advertised "in thi manner and the result was that more than half the candidates who, led the competition publicly, through the medium Of one of the opposition papers, withdrew their names. The competition is still going on, but, thanks to opposition on the part of aany fair ones themselves, public crest has altezether abated.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.