The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-07-18
WoMEN'S NOSES.

The Arrangement of Hair and Bonnets
Should Depend on Nasal Confguration.
Before deciding as to the arrange
ment of the hair, the nose should be
carefully Intercepted. If that feature
be Roman, or what learned author
describes as "cogitative"-i 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 tirmness 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 o rather
coeuettish arrangement of the hair.
Madonna bands assert badly with o
snub nose. So does the Venetian colt.
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 flower; aad 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 q thick plat for
the work-a-day hours. 1t is style
that has its advantages, more especial
ly as displaying to good effect plat
of FURNISHED chestnut hair, which the
present mode. with its tight little basket
plaits rather enviously conceals. But
the catogan needs a very special neat
ness to commend it, and ifagain adopt
ed here as it now is in Paris, it will be
well for its patrons to bear in mind
that when ruffled 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 its effect upon the shape
of the fashionable bonnet if it becomes
general, and will necessitate 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, 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-aged woman, with HARDEST
color in her cheeks, who should be sc
: utterly blind to the fitness %
| things land there have beer
such instances) as to don {
phenomena which make one desire tn,
revival of sumptuary laws. If the styl
of hair-dressing ought to be dependen
in great degree upon the shape OF tn
nose, that of the bonnet or hat should
2 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 cary
+ with, that requires extremely delicat
= treatment in the matter of couture
Il The effect of the nose itself is painful
meager, and this must be counteracte
. by sort of amplitude in the Arrange
J ment of the locks and in the trimming
y of the bonnet But then, on the oth'
" hand, these must not be too ample, {
70 70 they will produce a contrast so eyidel
u u as to be practically reproach to Il
~ nose for its thinness. The other e
~ treme of very fleshy nose demands
~ certain severity in the bonnet; but Il
~ outlines of the latter must not be t.
N rigid, else they will throw into disagree
able prominence the inclination of q
. nose toward spreading and width.
y far as regards form. With respect
" color, it is another matter. 1t is o.
q of the most difficult tasks of the clev
"a milliper to deal with a nose that !
no mains obstinately red despite all t
US waters and washes devised for su
nc cases. 1t is sad thing to see a bun
u u of peoples in bonnet, and to note tn
AS their rosy tint is precisely that of t
no most prominent feature in the fa'
Yet even this is less startling than
would be to leave surroundings da
and unrelieved by color, so that I
IL, nose, especially ON frosty days, ligl
m up the gloom like a newly paint
- pillar-box in dingy street. But, fl
% tunately, there are but comparative
ne few such hopeless noses as the
en- though one occasionally sees them a
90 regards their owner with pity and p
to haps mistrust. The ordinary Engl
Ids nose is white, though free from
wo bloodless look of the French featu
an The nostrils are daintily touched W
nd pink, and yet no color spreads furtl
RE than these, even when the rest of
the complexion is sensitively subject
ne sudden change, Such as these relii