The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-03-23
Concerning Noses.


OF personal beauty. In ancient Persia an
a4nlilne nose was deemed WORTHY of the
highest honors. The Mexicans take great
paine to give their children long noses,
WINE In Tartary the greatest beauties are
| those WHO have the shortest noses. In
| some other countries this feature in young
children is broken by their mothers, who
consider 1t piece of folly to have their
! noses standing before their eyes. The
motner OF Iameriane, we are told, was re-
garded as a celebrated beauty because she
had only two holes for nose Solomon
entertained very different notion on the
subject, for he compared his mistress nose
! to tower; and our Saxon ancestors could
ma no better synonym TO express a head
land or promontory than "ness," (French
aeS,} nose-as Sheerness Inverness. In
his ''Notes in England and Itaiy,n Haw-
! thore expresses the opinion that the Scotch
nave handsamer noses than the English.
II suspect" he writes "the English suf.
FER from having been mixed up with the
Danes and Mortimer so much; aud !aii
Mortimer are liable to have potato noses,'
! says Miss Bremen. l suppose the Scotch
are less mongrel race. Let this be as it
may, their noses have finer line. Per-
maps some Romans who strayed up there
rectified their forms with their own classic
contours."
1t will be found that the most extraor-
binary men of every age have been distin-
guisled by having extraordinary noses.
Beginning with the ancients, Scipio Ma
| sica, derived his name frem the prominent
share of this feature possessed by him. So
! did Ovid, surnamed Naso; on which ac-
count Pope represents his fiatterers per
suading him that he had ga nose like
Ovid's" Ciceros nose was distinguished
by vetch (eicer); Sylla's by profession
of pimples. This latter made great fig
ure in those days; and the Athenians,
while he was beseiging them. cut a num-
Der of jokes ON it: They compared it to "a
mulberry dredged over with meal" as we
read in Platarch's life of Sylia. This
joke, as many other jocose things often do,
cost the inventors Of it very dearly when
the revengeful dictator put his nose with
in their city gates. The nose of Cromwell
vas we'll calculated to vie with that Of his
hoMan prototype, If we may credit Cfeve-
land, Birkenhead. and other contemporary
writer's. "Cromwell's face" says B,rken-
head, "wears natural tiffany, and his
chin may furnish a rusty coat of mail.
His nose is q comet in grain. Certainly it
mandrake. And yet this basiiislz would
king it," Napoleon I was won't to say,
"Give nae a man with plenty of nose--lopg
nose, iong head!" His best generals, were,
as rule, remarkably we'll provided in this
particular. His own was exquisitely CHS
eled-sculptureeque in mould, form and
expression, though strangely enough, not
one of his brothers had nose worth look
ing at. But the most prominent nose in
Europe was Arthur, Duke of Weliingten's
and the iron Dake's captains-Anglesy,
! Pcton, Combermere, and Hardings-were
men all noteworthy in this respect also,
Sir Charles Napier, the conqueror Of
| Scinde, was similarly favored. His nose
was "like the beak of au eagle; it was,
curved and keen as the blade of a scythe."
! In a celebrated debate in tho House of
Commons, Sheridan compared Pitts nose
to the steeple at Strasbsurg. Pitt retort-
ed by likening that of Sheridan to ga fiery
meteor" Sherry's feature, ''ou the color
ing of which thousands of pounds of bis
creditors money had been spent, still
CLEANS like a fiery comet from the carca-
lures of Gillray." The late Lord Kelly
had such another pose, and he had a very
red face altogether. "Pray, my lord, eaid
! Foote to him, "come and look over my
garden wall-my cucumbers are very back
ward" Lord Brougham's nose, 1.-the,
flexible, moblle-now wagglug with inf
mite humor, now heaviug with terrific
wrath-has been the theme of ten thausand
| penis. By the way SeDior Oreuse, the We
! teran leader of the Republican party, in
Spain, is said TO be about a duplicate of
the late Lord Brougham, the similarity of
| face, even to the unmisiak ble nose, being
wonderful. Mrs. Siddous' was another
remarkable nose, and 1t gave great trouble
to Sir Joshua Reynolds. The prince of
portrait painters was completely baffled by
it. The witchery of the tragedy queens
| great, merry, yet serious eyes; the ripe
ness, tinctured with tenderness aud touch
ed with soupco" of scorn, of the small
mouth the gloom of the eyebrows; the
dimples in the chin; the inimtable curve
of the graceful neck the curly head, sur
mounted by the cavalier hat; the lazy
gracefuluesG of attitude-al were there
| trae to the original. But, then, the nose
Booth, the well-kDown actor, had broken
nose. A lady once remarked to him, 81
like your acting, Mr.. B"sth; but to be
frank with you, can't get over your nose."
''NO wonder, madam" replied he, 'tthe
bridge is gone" A prodigiously long nose
had Sir William Chere. One day, while
playing at backgammon with General
Brown, Sir William, who was a snuff taker
| was contin ualIy using his snuff box and
leaning over the table. Feeling annoyed
at this, and being at the same time ia a
very bad hnmor with the game, the gen.
eral said testify, "Slr William, blow your
nosel' elbow it yourself" answered
Chere; otis as near you as me I" But, by
the side of the glorious immortal nose that
SHAKESPEARE drew-that of Bardolph-all
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