River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-12-02
Noses Classified.
London Globe.

Francis Grose, in his appendix to
| Hogarth's Elements of Beauty" de-
lineates eight typical noses. There is
the angular; the aquiline or Roman;
the parrots beak; the straight or
Grecian; the dubious or bottled; the
turned-up or snub; and the mixed or
broken. OF the latter, by the way, the
| noses of at least two illustrious meL
may be taken as Observation-Disclosures
Brahe and Michael Angelo, the latter
ofwhom owed his ungraceful appendix
| to a violent blow from a companion
| with whom he was at variance. and
who thus disfigured the great Artist for
life and instantly fed. To these may
| be added the great orator, Cicero, upon
| whom nature seems to have bestowed
nasal organ of a type decidedly
mixed, if not broken. Plutarch, in
his life of the querulous Roman, saws
that he had a fiat excrescence on the
| top of his nose in resemblance of a
vetch-clcer in Latin-from which he
took his surname. Pliny says with
more probability, that the name orr
| ginated 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 Clcero's snub nose may no doubt be
accepted, and it accords with the ira
| ditional belief that this description of
nose is usually indicative of a fiery,
quick, impetuous temper, Cicero hav-
| ing possessed this characteristic in a
marked degree Horace seems to re-
gard the short nose, with little turn
up at the end, as the mark of a person
given to a good deal of jibing and jeer-
ing. Martial calls it the rhinoceros
nose, and says that it was highly fash
lonable IN his day, and everybody af-
fecting this kind of probocis as an in
dicatlon of a satirical humor. The
angular" nose, as Crosse calls it, is the
long, clearl y-cut pointed organ, and
was no doubt, the type to which Hor-
ace alludes when he says that il 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 Jewish nose all over the
world. The eight types gi en- embrace
every description of the feature, and
students of caricature are strongly
recommended in the treatise alluded
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 line from the pupil of one eye
to that of the other As matter of
fact, it is rarely or never found thus
placed. 1t is almost invariably little
out oF "the square," and the fact OF its
being so is often that which lends a
peculiar expression and piquancy to
the face. A medical writer points out
that there are anatomical reasons why
Il slight deviation from the true central
line may be expected, and that the
nose which is thus accurately straight
between the two eyes may be consid-
cred an abnormal one, and that the
only absolutely co rect organ is that
which thus deviates little to the right
or left