Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1885-07-08
WOMEN'S NOSES.
Tho Arrangement OF Hair and hornets
should Depend ON Nasal Connguration.

WOWCN = NOSCo.
Tho Arrangement OF Hair and Isopncts
Should Depend ON Nasal CONFEDERATION.
Before deciding as to the arrange
ment Of the hair, the nose should be
carefully interrogated. II that feature
be Roman, or what a learned author
describes rs "cogitativc"-i. c., 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. IL the nose be
Greek, an approach, carefully guarded
from being too realistic to the classic
knot, may be venturcd upon. The va
rieties of the Anglo-Saxon nose, some
of them quite childish in their want of
decision and firmncss of outline, arc
too numerous to be specially COM
mcnted upon, but should be treated
variously, according as they approach
the aquilne, the Greek or the snub
varieties. This last requires rather
coqucttish 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 somc
years. A "little head summing over
with curls" best suits the snub ''tip-
tilted like flower; and sensible
women who perforcc 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 we'll
with the infantilc 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 10
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 plat for
the work-a-day hours. 1t is a style
that has its advantages, moro especial
ly as displaying to good effect plat
of FURNISHED chestnut hair, which the
present mode. with its tight little basket
plaits rather obviously conccals. But
the catogan needs very special neat
ness to commend it, and il again adopt
ed here as il now Is in Paris, IL will be
well for its patrons to bear in mind
that when ruffied or disarranged, the
queue will lose all resemblance to
the exquisitcly neat little appendage of
the name as worn by our ancestors.
1t will have its effect upon the shape
of the fashionable bonnet If IL becomes
general, and will necessitate a lower
ing of the crown at the back. This
portion of the popular headgcar has
become smaller and smaller while in
hats, on the contrary, there is some
times an enormous prepondcrance of
crown over brim. In the shape known
as the Tam O'Shantcr this is notably
the case, and there was never, perhaps,
in the whole history of hcadgear,a form
that more readily lends itself to the ri
diculous than this when seen upon any
save the youngest and freshest offaces.
A middle-agcd woman, with 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 a
Tom o'Shanter, is one of those
phenomena which make one desire the
revival of sumptuary laws. If the STYLE
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 a
very thin variety of the nasal organ,
inclined to redncss 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
meagcr. and this must be counteractcd
by sort of amplitude in the arrange
ment of the locks and i'm the trimmings
of the bonnet. But then, on the ether
hand, these must not be too ample, or
they will produce contrast so evident
rs to be practically n rcproach to the
nose for its thinness. The other ex-
IRENE of a very fleshy nose demands n
certain severity in the bonnet; but the
outlines of the latter must not be too
rigid, else they will throw into Disagree
able prominence tho 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
to deal with n nose that re-
mains obstinately red despite all the
waters and washes devised for such |
cases. It is sad thing to see bunch |
of poppics in bonnet, and to note that |
their rosy tint is precisely that of tho
most prominent feature in the face.
Yet even this is less startling than it |
would be to leave surroundings dark |
and unrclicvcd by color, so that tho |
nose, especially on frosty days. lights
up the gloom like newly painted |
pillar-box in dingy street But. for
there arc 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.
Tho nostrils are doint'ly touched with
pink. and yet no color spreads further
than these. even when the rest of the
Is sensitivcly subject to
sudden change. Such as these relieve
The modistc of all difficulties. so far rs
color is concerned. London Daily
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