Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-11-22
LUCK IN a BIG NOSE.
Famous Men with Large Nasal Organs
Talk With an Expert on the Nose.
From the Ny Mail AID F,nrnss

From the Y. Y. Mail ard Express
Doctor, my nose is too big and too fat, 1t
spoils my entire face. I'll pay you any sum if
you viii tell me how to reduce its size and
change its shape!'
And young heiress of gilded Murray Hill
sank into an easy chair in the office of the old
family physician and began to pout.
"Bless me. what a notion NV dear child.
are you crazy? Do you think that we doctors
go around with our saws in our hands ready to
shave people down to just the proportions they
may choose for the moment?"
But, Doctor" petulantly resumed the
pamrercd pet of an old millionaire. I've read
in some newspaper that doctors now cut out
the cartilage. or whatever you call it. of the
nose. and then. by putting it in plaster cast,
1t can be made to grow into any shape de-
sired"
physicians do great many things when
necessity compels them, and noses have been
cut when disease made 1t compulsory, and. as
You say. plaster casts have been used. but no
sane person except yourself ever came to a
physician on such an errand. It's preposterous,
little one; really Cposterous. Run off for a
walk and don't bother pretty head about such
triiles."
And as Miss Murray Hill fiounced out of the
Office the long-hcadad old doctor took out his
memorandum book. jOtted down For profess
80, and in due time it will be added to papa's
bill.
The gamy miss who wanted her nose made
over again probably didn't know that a big
nasal appendage is one of the sure indications
OF mental shrewdness.
I've never known of a man with a big nose
who wasn't smart" said professor in Belle
we Hospital college when spoken to on the
subject
The great Napoleons nose was big Glad
stone nose Is big. but it ends in sharp point.
Bismarck has big nose that is however al
most Hat on the end. Gen. Grants nose was
not too large. but it was large enough to be
prominent. Blaines nose is very prominent,
and all his children. including his daughters,
are easily distinguishabe by the same large
protuberance. Jay Gould is possessed of a
large nose. So is Russell Sage and Cyrus W.
Field. President Cleveands is a trihe
above the ordinary size. Dan LamOnts nose is
very prominent. The late John Kelly had a
FIAT pug nose. Gen. HarrisOns nasal organ is
quite large. but not so prominent as that
of Levi Z. Morton or the old Roman. Joseph
Pulitzer and Charles 4. Dana both have large
noses. Puiltzer's is very prominent. Gov
Hill Is an exception TO the rule His nose is
quite small. DR.. Talmage and DR.. John Hail.
both famous pulpit orators have large noses
30 have Secretaries Bayard and Whitney. Ben
Butler nose Is quite small: so IS Henry Wat
tcrsOns: but George W. Childs. Austin Corbin
Chauncey NJ Depew. Lawrence Barrett. and
public. have their full share of nasal organ.
DR.. Jerome Allen, of this city. a well-known
leader in educational matters. in a lecture re-
Gently ON tempcraments. acknowledged that
he had made pretty close study OF noses in
connection with his work. though he wished it
distinctly understood that he did not appear as
a noseologist i'll any sense of the word. He
added:
If we look at the nose of a lower animal we
md that IT Is always typical of the character of
no lfNfk1 l.
take the nose of an English bulldog A hound
could never have the character of a bulldog
unless he borrowed the nose of a bulldog So
take the nose of the cat family-the hyena, the
wildcat. the common cat-and wherever that
popularity is found the same nature is OBJ
served. So We might go through with
IL the animals. Now, We find that the
noses of all the lower animals are
represented in mankind. Look at the street
as you pass along and you will find the cat
nose, the hound nose, the bulldog nose. the
ape nose, and even the fish nose and face as
we'll as the eagle nose of the man who is of a
grasping. hard disposition, which this forma-
ton always indicates, for person possessing
an eagle nose has an eagles character"
do you find the nose of man signifies the
same as the nose of woman?"
Yes, there are the same peculiarities in the
nose OF man as in that of a woman, and many
women who have Enthusiastically masculine noses
nave Enthusiastically masculine characters. So.
vice versa, the men who have feminine noses
have Enthusiastically femme characteristics. You
cannot possibly mistake it. Yes. the nose is a
feature of the face, and it indicates the charac-
ter more than anything else. An interesting
experiment can be tried to prove this. Let a
mask be prepared by cutting away all its parts
except the forehead and nose. An individual
may wear such mask in the presence of his
most intimate friends and not be recognized.
The nose. taken a whole, shows more char
acter than the combined faces of some whole
families"