Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-06-10
WOMEN'S NOSES.

The Arrangement of Hair and Bonnets
Should Depend on Nasal CONFORMATION.
Before deciding as to the arrange.
ment of the hair, the nose should be:
carefully interrogated. If that features
be Roman, or what learned author
describes as "cogitative"- e., long
and curved inward to the point-the
hair should be somewhat pronounced
in its arrangement. 1t should be
rather massive, or else the large nose
will, by force of contrast, make the
head look meager. If the nose be
Greek, an approach, carefully guarded
from being too realistic to the classic
knot, may be ventured upon. The va
rieties of the Anglo-Saxon nose, some
of them quite childish in their want of
decision and firmness of outline, are
too numerous to be specially COM
mented upon, but should be treated
variously, according as they approach
the aquiline. the Greek or the snub
varieties. This last requires a rather
coquettish arrangement of the hair.
Madonna bands assert badly with a
snub nose. SO does the Venetian Golf
fure, which has been such favorite
among our aesthetic phalanx for some
years. A "little head summing over
with curls'' best suits the snub ''tip-
tilted like a flower; and sensible
women who perforce wear turned-up
noses will carefully abstain from fol-
lowing the height and depth of fash
ionable coiffures, but remain faithful
to the quasi simplicity that goes so well
with the infantile 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 boys
will now regret the rashness that robbed
them of their locks. For the cato
gan is coming again. The 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 ribbonmatch-
ing the trimming on the dress; hanging
down the back in short curls for evening
wear, but arranged in thick plait for
the work-a-day hours. 1t is a style
that has its advantages, more especial
ly as displaying to good effect a plat
of FURNISHED chestnut hair, which the
present mode, with its tight little basket
plaits rather enviously conceals. But
the catogan needs very special neat
ness to commend it, and if again adopt
ed here as it now is in Paris, it will be
well for its patrons to bear in mind
that when rutfled or disarranged, the
queue will lose all resemblance to
the eXquisitely neat little appendage of
the name as worn by our ancestors.
1t will have it's effect upon the shape
Of fhn 60 10 l. "a
general, and will necesstate lower
ing of the crown at the back This
portion of the popular headgear has
become smaller and smaller; while in
hats, on the contrary, there is some
times an enormous preponderance of
crown over brim. In the shape known
as the Tam o'Shanter this is notably
the case, and there was never, perhaps,
in the whole history of headgear, q form
that more readily lends itself to the RI
diculous than this when seen upon any
save the youngest and freshest offaces.
A middle-aged woman, with a hard-set
color in her cheeks, who should be so
utterly blind to the fitness of
things (and there have been
such instances) as to don
Tom o'Shanter, is one of those
phenomena which make one desire the
revival of sumptuary laws. If the stvle
of Embarrassing ought to be dependent
in great degree upon the shape of the
nose, that of the bonnet or hat should,
to be consistent, be so too. There is
very thin variety of the nasal organ,
inclined to redness along the ridge,
which looks sharp enough to carve
with, that requires extremely delicate
treatment in the matter of couture.
The effect of the nose itself is painfully
meager, and this must be counteracted
by sort of amplitude in the arrange
ment 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 contrast so evident
as to be practically reproach to the
nose for its thinness. The other ex-
IRENE of a very feshy nose demands
certain severity in the bonnet; but the
outlines of the latter must not be too
rigid, else they will throw into disagree
able prominence the inclination of the
nose toward spreading and width. So
far as regards form. With respect to
color, it is another matter. 1t is one
of the most difficult tasks of the clever
milliner to deal with nose that re-
mains obstinately red despite all the
waters and washes devised for such
cases. 1t is sad thing to see bunch
of peoples in bonnet, 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, especially on frosty days, lights
up the gloom like newly painted
pillar-box in dingy street. But, for
tunately, there are but comparatively
few such hopeless noses as these,
though one occasionally sees them and
regards their owner with pity and per-
haps mistrust. The ordinary English
nose is white, though free from the
bloodless look of the French feature.
The nostrils are daintily touched with
pink, and yet no color spreads further
than these, even when the rest of the
complexion is sensitively subject to
sudden change. Such as these relieve
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