The bee., 1883-08-18
THE HUMAN NOSE.
An Interesting Chapter on that Useful and
Ornamental Organ.

An Interesting Chapter on that Useful an
OrHRmeutAl Organ.
Layater, the physiognomist of Zu
rich, claimed that the perfect nose hac
nine essentials. Its length should b,
equal TO that of the forehead: it should
have gentle fal ing in near the root
when viewed in front the ridge mus
be large, with the two sides nearly
parallel, but the breadth a little in
creased toward the middle; not such Z
one as Solomon Pell'S, whose nose wa:
all on one side, as if nature, indignant
with the prOpensities she observed In
him at his birth, had given it an
angry tweak which it had never recov
cred. The tip Of the Layatsr nose
should not be too sharply pointed MOI
too obtuse; the lower contour formed
with precision, and connection neithei
too pointed or too large; the sides oi
the nose must distinctly present them
selves so that the nostrils agreeably
foreshorten at the bottom and in the
profile; the base must be One-third the
length, the nostrils should draw more
or less to point and become rounded
as they recede; while the ridge should
be formed archwise; and, lastly. the
upper part must unite with the arch
of the eyebrow, and dimensions on tie
side of the eye must be at least half
an inch.
Great men have frequently ill-con-
structed noses. Small noses, oblique
in profile, are confined to people with
gentleness Of temper. forbearance, at
tention and docility, disposing them to
receive and relish sensations Of deli
cacy. Socrates, the philosopher, Boer-
hoave and Lairesse. though great men,
were Of gentle and patient dispositions.
Noses arched from the upper part Of
the root belong to elevated characters,
those born to command, firm of pur-
pose and steadfast in their under,ak-
ings. A nose with a large ridge,
straight or curved, announces superior
faculties. Such were the noses of
Dean Swift, Caesar Borgla, Paul Sarpe
and Titan. Perpendicular moses sup
pose soul that knows how to act aud
to suffer TRANQUILITY and with energy.
Chaucer SAYS her nose directed
strait and Dante means the straight
nose when he styles it I'D DIR ito
naso." Pug noses belong to little
great people; they always make the
motions to adjourn in a public meet
ing, are full Of bristling of1iciousness,
make good errand-runners, are tolera.
bly, faithful, as lawyers full of techni-
calities, as preachers run in one rut,
and as doctors follow the text books,
No man with pug nose ever set the
Ohio river on fire, CT accomplished
much more than to humarum through
life's traces. Snub noses generally he
long TO critical people, who are born
disguised with everything. Pugilists
have frequently snub noses. They in
dicate bang-on-ativeness, and some
what Of that quality in man called
perseverance. in a mule obstinacy.
Plato called the aquiline nose regal,
and some modern hath 1t, "God made
the Roman, man the snub.' At any
rate, the Roman-nosed were the
movers of the worlds destiny, the
elegant Greek-nosed the arbiters of
art, and these distinguished for imbe-
cile iranity glorying in a snub.
In the Caucasian the nose averages
in length ne-third of the face, in the
Mongolian one-fourth, in the Ethiopian
something less.
The great painters and sculptors, 10y
paying attention to the noses, crew
characters that were almost divine.
Look at Ecce Homo, of Correggio,
or the Madonna Of Raphael. Jupiter,
Hercules and warlike Minerva had all
the nose of eXecution-the grand old
Roman nose. Sesostris, Cato the Cen
sor, Lucretias, Charlemagne, Canute,
Columbus, Americus Vespucius, Cor
tez. Pizzarro, Robert Bruce, Queen
Elizabeth, Earl of Chatham, Hendrick
Hudson, Daniel Boone, Francis Marion,
Andrew Jackson, Samuel Houston,
Thomas ii. Benton, Winfield Scott, had
all the Roman nose.
The Greek nose was given by the
sculptors to Juno, Venus and Apollo.
1t is the artistic nose, the noe of re-
finement, culture and taste. 1t is found
in Petrarch, Milton, Spencer, Boccac-
clio, Canova, Raphael, Claude, Rubens,
Murillo, Addison, Voltaire, Byron and
Shelley. Many famous women have
had this nose-Hannah Moore, Lett
tia Barbaugh, Felicia Hemans, Maria
Edgeworth and Madame de Stael.
From the beautiful Andromache to
Pauline de Borghese, this is the nose
of beauty. "The Greek-nosed woman
says an admirer, whether born in
cottage or palace, makes everything
about her beautiful. Taste presideS
alike in the adornment Of her person
and the furnishing and embellishing
Of her rooms. A wreath of green
leaves or a little vase Of flowers may
a. truly show it as tiara of pearls or
the appointments of luxurious bou-
doir." The Jewish nose, so called be-
cause so common among Israelites, is
by no means peculiar to that nation
alone. 1t is found among the Syrian
races everywhere. Sir G. Wilkinson
proves that the natives represented in
Egyptian culture with hawk noses are
not always Jews, but Syrians. The
ancient Phoenicians were Syrians, and
they were the create It merchants of
antiquity. 1t indicates worldly shrewd-. i.
ness, insight into character, an abil-
ity to turn that insight TO profitable |
account. Vespasian, Titus, Theode-
sias the Great, Adam Smith and Albert !
Gallatin had this nose,
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