The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-07-12
THE HUMAN NOSE.
An Interesting Chapter on that Useful
and Ornamental Organ.

THE HUMAN NOSE.
An Interesting Chapter on that stscyul
and Ornamental Organ.
Lavater, the physiognomist Of Zurich,
claimed that the perfect nose had nine
essentials. Its length should be equal
to that Of the forehead; it should have
gentle falling il, near tho root; when
viewed in font the ridge must be large,
with the two sides nearly parallel, bht
the breadth little increased toward the
middle; not such one MS Solomon
Pell's, whose nose was all on one side,
as If Nature, indignant with the propen-
sites she observed in him Mt his birth,
had given it m angry tweak which it
had never recovered. The tip OF the
Lavatrf nbse shoiild not be tpo sharply
pointed nor too obtuse; the lower con.
tour formed with precision. and connec-
ton neither too pointed or too large;
the sides Of the nose must distinctly
present themselves so that the nostrils
agreeably foreshorten at the bottom and
in the profile; the base must be one
third the length; the hostri,s should
draw more or less to point aid becbme
rounded rs they rccede; while the ridge
should be formed archwise; and, lastly,
the upper part must unite with the arch
of the eyebrow, and dimensions on the
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. fnrbearance, at
tention and doc;lity, 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 Ut
the root belong to elevated characters,
those born to command, firm of pur-
pose and steadfast in their undertake
ings. a nose with large ridge,
straight or curved, announces superior
faculties. Such were the noses Of Dean
Swift. Caesar Borgia, Paul Sarpe and
Titan. Perpendicular noses suppose a
soul that knows how to act and to suf-
fer TRANQUILITY and with energy. Chaucer
says her nose directed strait and
Dante means the straight nose when lie
styles it I'D dretto ,aaso.' Pug noses
belong to little great people; they al
ways make the motions to adjourn in .
public meeting, are full Of bristling Of
ficiousness, make good errand-runners,
are tolerably faithful, as lawyers full Of
technicalities, 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, or accom-
plished much more than to humdrum
through liie's traces. Snub noses gen.
orally belong to critical people, who
are born disguised with everything.
Pugilists have frequently snub noses.
They indicate hang-on-ativeness, and
somewhat of that quality in man
called perseverance, in q mule obsti-
macy.
Plato called the nquiline nose royal,
and some modern hath it, 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 imbecile inanity
glorying in snub.
In the Caucasian the nose averages
in length one-third Of the face, in the
Monkolian one-fourth, in the Ethiopian
something less.
The great painters and sculptors, by
paying attention to the noses, drew
characters that were almost divine.
Look OF the 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 Gen.
sor, Lucretias, Charlemagne, Canute,
Columbus, Americas Vespucius, Cortez,
Pizzarrc, Robert Bruce, Queen Rliza-
beth, Earl of Chatham, Hendrick Hud-
son, Daniel Boone, Francis Marion,
Andrew Jackson, Sam Houston, Thomas
H. Benton, Winfield Scott, had all the
Roman nose.
The Greek nose was given by the
sculptors to Juno, Venus and Apollo.
It is the artistic nose, the nose Of re-
finement, culture and taste It 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, Letitia
DHTUAuSH, IOuCM xAcu0uSS MnkA1
Edgeworth, and Madam de Stael. From
the beautiful Andromache to Pauline
de Borghese, this is the nose of beauty.
"The Greek-nosed woman, says an ad-
mirer, whether born in a cottage or .
palace, makes everything about her
beautiful. Taste presides alike in the
adornment of her person and the furn-
fishing and embellishing of her rooms.
A wreath of green leaves or little vase
of flowers may as truly show it as a
tiara of pearls or the appointments of
a luxurious boudoir." The Jewish nose,
SO called because so common among
Israelites, is by no means peculiar to
that nation alone. It is found among
the Syrian races everywhere. Sir G..
Wilkinson proves that the natives rep
resented in Egyptian culture with hawk
noses are not always Jews, but Syrians.
The ancient Phoenicians were Syrians,
and they were the greatest merchants
of antiquity. It indicates worldly
shrewd9css, insight into character, and
ability to turn that insight to profitable
account. Vespasian, Titus, Theodosias
the Great, Adam Smith and Albert
Gallatin had this nose.
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