Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-04-24
SOMETHING ABoUr WoMEx,s NosEs

The Harmonious Relation That This Organ
Bears to Hair. BonOets and Other
Feminine Adornments.
Before deciding as to the arrangement of
the hair, the nose should he carefully interro-
gated. If that feature be Roman, or what
learned author describes as "cogitative--i. e.,
long and curved inwards towards the point
the hair should be somewhat pronounced in
its arragement Ii should be rather massive,
or else the large nose will, by force OF CON
trast, make the head look ineagre. II the
nose be Greek, an approach carefully guarded
from being too realistic TO the classic knot,
may be ventured upon. The varieties OF
the Anglo-Saxon nose, some of them quite
childish In their want of decision and firm
ness OF outline, are too numerous to be
specially commented upon but should he
treated variously, according as they approach
the acquiline, the Greek, or the sub.varietes.
This last requires a rather coquetish arrange
ment of the hair. Madonna bands assert
badly with snub nose. So does the Vene-
tan coiffurc which has been such favorite
among our aesthetic phalanx for some years.
A little head summing over with curls''
bests suits the snub "tip-tilted like flowern
ana sensible woman who perforce wear turn
ed-up noses will carefully abstain from fol.
lowing the height and depth of fashionable
coiffures, but remain faithful to the quasi
simplicity thatgoes so well with the iniailtile
formation of their noses.
The silly young women who have of late
gone about the world with their heads
cropped as close as those of bows Will now
regret the rashness that robbed them of their
locks For the catogan is coming i'm again.
tne hair Is TO be worn curled in front, then
simply brushed back to the nape of the neck,
where IT is to be tied with n ribbon matching
.ne trimming on the dress hanging down the
back in short curls for evening wear, hut
arranged ina thick plait for the work -a-day
hours. 1t Is a style that has its ad dvantages,
more especially as displaying good effect
plat OF burnished chestnut hair, which the
present mode, with its tight little basket
plaits, rather enviously conceals. But the
catogan needs very special neatness to COM
mend 1t, and if again adopted here as ii now
IS in Paris it will be well for its patrons to
bear in mind that when ruflled or disar-
ranged, the queue will lose all resemblance
TO the exquisitely neat little appendage of the
name as worn by our ancestors.
1t will have Its effect upon the shape of the
fashionable bonnet If it becomes general, and
VIII necessitate lowering of the crown at
the back. This portion of the popular head
gear has become of late years smaller and
smaller; while in hats, on the contrary, there
Is sometimes an enormous preponderance of
crown over brim In the shape known as the
Tam OShanter this is notably the case, and
there was never, perhaps, in the whole his
tory of the headgear, form that more readily
lends itself TO the ridiculous than this when
seen upon any save the youngest and fresh
est of faces. A middle aged woman with a
hard set color in her cheeks, who should be
80 utterly blind to the fitness of things (and
there have been such instances) as to don q
lam OShanter, is one Of those phenomena
which makes one desire the revival of s,imp-
tuary laws. If the style of hair dressing ought
to be dependent in a great degree upon
the shape of the nose, that of the bonnet or
hat should, to be consistent, be so too. There
isa very thin variety of the nasal organ, in
Va1ned to redness along the ridge, which looks
shatp enough to carve with, that requires ex-
tromely delicate treatment i'm the matter of
couture. The effect of the nose itself is pain
fully meagre, and, this must be counteracted
by sort of amplitude in the arrangement Of
the locks and in the trimmings of the bonnet.
But then, on the other hand, these must not
be too ample, or they will produce a contrast
so evident as to be practically "a reproach to
the nose for its thinness The other extreme
of "A very fieshy nose demands certain
severity in the bonnet; but the outlines of the
latter must not be too rigid, else they will
throw into disagreeable prominence the in
clination of the nose towards spreading and
width. so far as regards form. With re-
spect to color, il is another matter. 1t is one
of the most difficult tasks of the
clever milliner to deal with nose that
remains obstinately red despite all the waters
and washes devised for such cases. 1t is a
sad thing to see bunch of poppies in a bon
net and to note that their rosy tint is precisely
that of the most prominent feature in the
face Yet even this is less startling than it
would be to leave surroundings dark and
unrelieved by color, so that the nose, especi-
ally on frosty days, lights up the gloom like
newly painted pillar-box in a dingy street.
But, fortunately, there are but comparatively
few such helpless noses as these though one
occasionally sees them and regards their
owner with pity and perhaps mistrust. The
ordinary English nose is white, though free
from the bloodless look ofthe French feature.
The nostrils are daintily touched with pink,
and yet no color spreads further than these,
even when the rest of the com pleXion is SEN
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