Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-10-28
Noses Classified.

Francis Grose, in his appendix to
Hogarth's Elements of Beauty,b de,
llneates eight typical noses. There is
the angu ar; the aquiline or Roman
the parrots beak the straight or Gre.
clan; the bulbous or bottled; the
turnej-up or snub; and the mixed OF
broken. Of the latter, by the way, the
noses OF at least two illustrious men
may be taken as illustrations-Tvc
Brahe and Michael Angelo, the latter
OF whom owned his ungracefll appen-
dix to violent blow from a COMPANION
with whom he was at variance. and
who thus disigured the great artist for
life and instantly fed. To these may
be added the orator Cicero, upon whom
nature seems to have bestowed a nasal
organ of type decidedly "mjxed, (" if
not broken. Plutarch 10 his life Of the
querulous Roman, says that he had a
flat excrescence on the top of his nose
in resemblance of vetch-cicer in
Latin-from which he took his sur
name. Pliny says, with more prob
ability, that the name originated 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
Rccords with the traditional belief that
this description of noses is usually
indicative of fiery, quick, impetuous
temper. Cicero having possessed
this characteristic in q marked degree.
Horace seems to regard the short nose,
with little turn-up at the end, as the
mark OF person given good deal to
jlbing and jeering. Martial calls it the
rhinoceros nose, and says that it was
highly fashionable in his day, every
body affecting this kind of proboscis as
an indication of satirical humor. The
angular" nose, as Grose calls it, is the
long, clearly-cut, pointed organ, and was
no doubt, the type to which Horace al
ludes when he says that it is Indicative
of satirical wit. The "parrot beak (" is
the nose with which Mr.. Punch usually
adorns his caricature of the sultan or
khedive, and is akin to the typical Jew
ish nose all over the world. The eight
types given embrace every description
of the feature, and students of carica-
ture are strongly recommended in the
treatise alluded to to make themselves
perfectly familiar with the simple lines
by which these curiously comprehensive
sketches are effected.
A very singular fact has been OBJ
served 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 a line from the pupil of one eye to
that of the other. AS a matter of fact,
it is rarely or never found thus placed
Ii is almost invariably little out of
6 the square," and the fact of its being
so is often that which lends peculiar
expression and piquaney to the face A
medical writer points out that there are
anatomical reasons why slight devia-
tion from the true central line may be
and that the nose which is
thus act urately straight between the
two eyes may be considered an abnormal
one, and that the only absolutely cor
rect organ is that whicn deviates little
to the right or left -LOEdln Globe.