Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-05-04
NOT ABOUT NOSES ONLY.
BY EMMA NASH.

o. We immortal shades of Caesar aud
Brutus-of Mark Antony and Pompey-
how would ye tremble with indignation did
We know that one-half the noses that go
shutting the air, are considered to resemble
your own? Noses la Cicer0,1 la Cesar,
may be classic, but not beautiful; noses
a la Pompey must look ponlpously; look
pOmpous, snuff the air with pomposity.
Everybody knows that every United States
Senator imsgines that in his body lives the
traDsmigrated soul of some departed noble
Roman, but tell him in the most delicate
manner, or even insinuate to him that his
nose, as we'll as his spirit, is an emanation
of the divine Cato, Snd ten to one, if you
are a man, but that he will pull you by
your proboscis, ofwhatever style it may be.
To have a nose la Mark Antony, me-
thinks, should insure the admiration of all
queenly and Intellectual women-for Cleo
patrs, Queen of Egypt, the most fascinating
woman of her age, was enamored Of noses
a la Mark Antony, or with Mark Antony
with bis nose, or Mark Antony in spite of
his nose, so much so that she said of her,
self-every inch queen as she was-or at
least Shakespeare says it for her
'No more, but cen a woman, and commanded
By such poor passion, as the maid that milks."
Roman noses were more admired in those
days-or at least lovers with Roman noses.
Cleopatra was by no means a blonde,
and if Mark Antony could overlook her
complexion she could overlook his nose
especially when reclining at her feet. A
great many Mark Antonys in Washington
overlook their CleopAtra's complexion; in
deed to have a complexion q Ia Cleopatra
is quite the style.
Anaxagorss, (he was only poor old Greek
philosopher said "nothing can be known;
nothing can be learned; nothing can be GER
tain, sense is limited; intellect is weak; life
is Short" and he should have added as
another tTIliSnp "most noses are long and
large" under which truism would come the
noses of the Hon. Charles Sumner, Gen.
Sherman, the Dents, etc.
Speaking of the Dents, makes one digress
little and think of what the witty Don
Pistt, Of the Capitol, said the other Sunday,
viz: "That Gen. Grant always received eve
rything in the way of present, except what
was marked G. o. D., which be interpreted
as meaning call on Dent, and which he sent
round to bis worthy brother-in-law to pay
expressage upon"
0AnAeheOlo01 hOS NloAlS, OOlb9 q OIOOhS
we suppose his nose was. very beautiful
noses a Ia Greek being the highest type OF
nose-under which class would come the
nose of tue Hon. Roscoe Conkling, who is
Uery proud of his nose, and WAC has the
only true Greek nose in the Senate.
The ladies say that the Vice President,
Grandpapa Wilson's, nose is a love of a
"pug;" but then the ladies are partial to the
Y. p, IS he is a jolly widower who lises
bright eyes aud apple brandy. and who re-
ally has the kindest little nose in all the
world. His nose in profile, reminds
one of the rose in profile
of Socrates, which was "pug."
Lavater ssys-largs noses show understand
ing and sou, small noses a want of under
standing and soul. We do not know how
this is, but we do know that we have seen
some people who had small noses, who
also had large, very large understandings
and sOleSl souls?-viz. Senator Morton
who has an iDfnitesimal nose, turned in the
| air, immense feet, and who is considered
big man mentally and physically, on the
Goth and VaDdal order. Among the Uui-
ted States Senators, the spirit of a divine
Roman sometimes gets down into the feet;
hence we see amongst this august body
what should be called, to match Roman
noses, Roman feet. From Indiana there's
worthy U. S. S,-Pratt by name,
whose one foot only could contain the
transmigrated soles (souls) of al least half
dozen "Conscript Fathers" He has a
Cato in every toe, Brutus in each heel;
and yet, obi and yet, he's only Pratt. IT'S
pity some of the transmigratod souls Of
those old Romans do not occupy the heads
more of some Of our "Conscript Fathers,
and then the nation might exclaim:
| "And still we gazed, and still our wonder grew
| That those small heads could carry all they
knew"
WASHINGTON, May l, 1873.