The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-10
NOSES CLASSIFIED.

GLOBE
Francis Grose, in his appendix to Ho
garth's Elements of Beauty" delineates
eight typical noses. There is the angu-
lar ; the aquiline, or Roman; the par
rot's beak the straight, or Grecian the
Dubious, or bottled the turned up, or
the snub; and the mixed, or broken. OF
the latter, by the way, the noses of at
least two Observation-Disclosures Brahe
and Michael Angelo, the latter Of whom
owed his ungraceful appendix to vio-
lent blow from a companion with whom
he was at variance, and who thus dis
figured the great artist for life, and in
stantly fed. To these may be added the
orator Cicero, upon whom nature seems
to have bestowed nasal organ Of type
decidedly mixed" if not broken. Plu-
tarch, in his life of the querulous Roman,
says that he had fiat excrescence on
the top of his nose in resemblance. of a
vetch-cicer in Latin-from which he
took his surname. Piny says, with
more probability, that the name origi-
mated in an extensive cultivation of
vetches, just as others had previously
been surnamed from crops of other
kinds. However this may be, the fact
of Cicero's snub nose may no doubt be
accepted, and it accords with the tradi-
tional belief that this description of nose
is usually indicative of a fiery, quick,
impetuous temper, Cicero having pos
sessed this characteristic in a marked
degree. Horace seems to regard the
short nose, with a little turn-up at the
end, as the mark of a person given a
good deal to jibing and jeering. Martial
calls it the rhinoceros/ nose, and says
that it was highly fashionable in his
day, everybody affecting this kind of
proboseis as an indication of a satirical
humor. The angular" nose, as Crosse
calls it, is the long, clearly-cut, pointed
organ, and was, no doubt, the type to
which Horace alludes when he says that
it is Indicative of satirical wit, The
''parrot beak" is the nose with which
Mr. Punch usually adorns his carrica-
ture of the sultan or khedive, and is
akin to the typical Jewish nose all over
the world. The eight types given en-
brace every description Of the feature,
and students Of carricature are strongly
recommended in the work alluded to to
make make themselves perfectly famil-
lar VIII lIlt sim PIE AI1leS " WHICH IHeSe
curiously comprehensive sketches are
effected.
A very singular fact has been observ-
ed with regard not so much to the shape
Of the nose as to the setting Of it in the
face, so to speak. To be strictly correct
from the artists point of view, the nose
should be accurately in the middle of
the face and at right angles with line
from the pupil of one eye to that Of the
other As a matter OF fact. it is
rarely OF never found thus placed. 1t
rs almost invariably little out of "the
square," and the fact of its being so is
often that which lends a peculiar ex
preston and piquancy to the face A
medical writer points that there are ana (
tomical reasons why slight deviation I
from the true central line may be ex-
pected, and that she nose which is thus
accurately straight between the two eyes
NAV be considered an abnormal one,
and that the only absolutely correct or
gan is that which thus devIates little
to the right or left.