Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-03-24
Human Noses.

4 writer in one If the English news
papers says Francis Grosc, in his ap-
pcndiA to Hogarths Elements Of
Beauty dclineatcs eight typical noses
There Is the angular the aquilinc or
Roman, the parrots bcak, the straight
or Grccian, the Bulbous or bottled. the
tumcd-up or suub. and the mi2cd or
broken. OF the latter, 10y the way, the
noses Of at least two illustrious men may
bc taken As illustrations Tycho Bahc
and Michael Angelo, the latter Of whom
ovcd his unRmooiul appendix to a vio-
lent blow from companion with whom
he WAS nt Variance. and who thus disfg.
urcd the great artist for life and in
stantly fed. To these may be- added
tb" orator Cicero, upon whom nature
seems 20 have bestowed nasal organ of
q type decidedly mixed" ifuot broken.
plutarch, in his life Of the qucrulous
Roman, says that he had fiat excrcs-
ccucc on the top of his nose in rcsem-
blance 81 yctch-cicor in Latin-from
which hc took his surname. Pliny SAYS,
with more probability, that the name
originated in an extensive cultivation Of
yetchcs, just as others had previously
been surnamcd from crops Of other
kinds. However this may bc. the fact
Of Cicero's snub nose may no doubt bc
accepted, and il accords with the tadi-
tional belief that this description Of
nose is usually indicative Of q fiery.
quick, impciuous temper, Cicero having
possessed this Characteristic in marked
degree. Horace seems to regard the
short nose, with little turn-up at the
end, as the mark Of person given a
good deal TO jihinR and iecring. Mar
tial calls it the rhinoccrous nose, and
says that it was highly fashionable
in his day, everybody affecting this
kind Of proboscis as an indication Of
satirical humor. The "angular" nose.
as Grose calls it, is the long, clear
ly cut, pointed organ, and was, no doubt,
the type to which Horace alludes when he
saws it is indicative Of satirical wit The
parrot peak is the nose with which
Mr.. Punch usually adons his caricature
of the sultan or khedive and is akin to
the typical Jewish nose all over the
world. The eight types given embrace
every description of the feature. and
students of caricature are strongly re-
commended in the treatise alluded TO to
make themselves perfectly familiar
with the simple lines by which these
cunously comprehensive sketches are ef-
fected. A very singular fact has been
observed with regard not so much TO the
shape Of the nose as TO the setting of
1t in the face, so TO speak. To he
strictly correct, from the artists point of
view, the nose should be accurately in
the middle Of the face and at right an
giles with a line from the pupil of one
eve TO that Of the other. As a matter of
fact il is rarely ever found thus placed.
It is almost invariably little out oi
+" the square," and the fact Of its being
so is often that which lends peculiar
expression and piquancy to the face.
A medical writer points ont that there
are anatomical reasons why q slight de.
Walton from the true central line may
he expected, and that the nose which is
thus accurately straight between the
two eyes may be considered an abnor.
NAL one, and that the only absolutely
correct organ is that which devascs a
little TO the right or left.