The Opelousas courier., 1885-07-11
/ rHAPTER ON THE NOSE.
IN Nasal Organ Viewed
from Various Points.
some Of the Facial characteristics Of
Great Men in All Ages

Angeio's most renowned works will
hardly be impressed on the memory as
firmly as his nose, when his portrait
has once been seen. In his youth he
had a quarrel with a companion, who
struck his nose SO violently as to dis
6gure him for life. Tyeho Brache
had a similarly deformed nose. Who
can forget the homely face of Socrates
after once seeing ii, which owes It's
homeliness almost entirely to his nose?
but physiognomists, as such, have
6svays had great endorsements in
pasing impromptu judgments by the
gul8 Of their science. The case of
Lavf' er is extremely ludicrous as an
iIust tation of this. A traveller
showed him two pictures, the one of
arobl ler who had been broken on the
Eheel;;' the other was a picture of
Kant, whose purity of life has scarcely
been surpassed. Lavater was asked
so tell Il cir characters from the pic
lures. He took up the robber, and
after SOME examination, said: "Here
NE have the true philosopher; here is
penetration in the eye, and reflection
Ill the forehead; here is cause, and
Ehere is effect; here is combination,
there is .distinction; synthetic lips and
m analytic nose" Then turning to
the philosophers picture he TX
claimed: The calm, thinking william
ID 10 well expressed and strongly
marked in this face that it needs no
comment an anecdote which gave
Kant great pleasure, and which he
was~ especially delighted to tell.
HI Is for the reason Of this notorious
failure of physiognomists that / dare
hot tread upon the dangerous ground
of the meaning Of noses, though much
esn be Indicated by the muse. It must
be remembered, however, that of
tastes 1t ii idle to dispute. Hence,
though our own style of beauty is the
Greek nose, which continues downward
from the forehead I'M an almost perpen-
aicular line, still each ace and people
amires its own style Of nose. The
Seinetic nose has never been associated
Iii our minds with beauty, yet we are
spoken of contemptuousiy by the
Arabs and Syrians as sfat nosed
Franks" Shakespeare, on the other
hand, must have thought a Turks
nose most abominable, for he takes
care to have it thrown into the witch
Is broth in Macbeth" The Africans
MO proud of their broad, fiat nose, and
some tribes even insert artificial OBJ
pets to increase their pet deformity.
The general opinion seems to be
that possessors of long noses are proud
md boassfGl. Those who know Ten
Byson; who has such a nose, are in POI
sItion TO verify this opinion, for his
poetry certainly does not show him
either boastful or proud. He has,
however, committed himself with his
ppinion about noses. for in Maud he
neered at the druggists clerk as a
tsnub nosed rogue That a snub q
ii considered to denote fiery, quick
temper need hardly be said. Al person
with a very thin nos is rarely thought
generous. So, too, great breadth of
nostrils is often associated with coarse
ness. Horace has frequently expressed
bib views about the nose in his poetry,
and he seems TO regard a short nose
with q little turn up at the end as the
mark of a jeering and iibing person.
Martial calls this the rhinoceros nose,
aad says that it was fashionable in bis
day, as IL indicated d satirical hurnor
which everybody was then affecting.
Perhaps it is accidental, but II IS re-
markable that Addison, the smoothest
writer DIE English, should have had q
smooth Greek nose. In Rome there
was 4 whole family which took its
name from the nose-the Nansones, OF
which Ovid was the most celebrated
member. Cicero's remarkable snuh
nose isbeyond dispute. Gibbon : nose,
which gave his face q most peculiar
appearance. has found its mate only IN
HAT Dc The recently deceased Prince
aortsehakoff, the Chancellor Of Rus
L both these noses were small. Some
lgbrated men. though their noses
9ers not remarkable for size and
mare, were still often reminded Of
bib p~rotruding organ. The nose Of
hiller, for instance, was very capri
eGeis. It demanded the smell OF rot
ia apples ID keep its owner il good
ifIt Equally capricious was
anes nose. IL could not endure The
mel III III fed students, and ashe was
sor iii the University &c Konigs-
sggs bis nose gave him much trouble
ng bib lectures, attended as they
mostly BIZ III fed, poor students.
aal 1ikewise df5liked the smell OF