The Irish standard., 1888-09-08
THE PUG-NosED GIRL.
Tricotrin Pronounces Her q Thing Of
Beauty and JOY Forever.

/ D0Auty ssUu u coy iGOT0v0Xe r
Idoremember me, in these faint and
weary days, of the youth Of my spirit, when
I wandered fancy free through such works
as those Of the mortal Junius Henri
Browne, writes Tricotrin in PUCK And I
do, moreover, remember me of remark Of
his which went thus: "Her nose was
divine inasmuch as it pointed toward
Heaven" Whereat Twas wont to laugh,
knowing that thereby did Browne signify
pug nosed girl with large gray eyes and
sunburst of ambrosial curls that filed the
earth with white horses.
Now that the sand-paper Of adversely has
scraped the gloss OF my youth, and ex-
posed beneath the varnish some of the cheap
ness Of the natural material, laugh not at
the pug-nosed girl smile at her For,
verify, do conceive that she is thing OF
beauty and o Joy forever.
But, alasl the philosophers are not with
me- Authorities on personal beauty, from
Winckelmann to Henry T. Finck, say that
q nose should be straight Brother Finck
says that the Greek artists, who made
straight noses, took their idea of the divine
nose from the contours of childhood. Their
gods and goddesses possessed no cavity at
the root of the nose, and this, quoth Finck,
is characteristic of youth. ssLater in lfe,"
he continues, these cavities Drain cavi-
ties) bulge forward and produce the hollow,
which is, therefore, an indication Of superior
cranial development and higher intellectual
powers. Hence, as Prof. Kollmann sug-
gests, the object of the Greek artists in
making the nose of their deities form
straight line with the forehead was prob
ably to give them the stamp OF eternal
youth"
But why should straight line be beauti-
full in the midst of the gracious contours Of
the human faces The curvilinear prospect
is that which wholly inspires the artistic
mind. Does not even small boy, even one
who has but one eye, and sees but one-haf
the glory Of nature, rejoice more in the
curves of dogs tail, q velocipede, he
goat, a mince pie. football, marble, q
silver quarter, or what not, than in the
square Of the hypothenuse or the instruct
or's ruler?
And what is small boy, with unkept
hair and freckled checks, with seven warts
upon his hands and the essence of Joy in
his heart, but the incarnate spirit OF eternal
youth, not yet tangled out Of tune by the
shadow of age and the inevitable wrestling
for the wherewithal? Does he bite his lips
il the world grows old and kingdoms fail, If
commerce vanishes into 3trackiess, blue
immensity, "and the tariff swells like the
shadow of doom, if the school keeps or not9
These things show that there are both
beauty and eternal love in curves, and
argue that the Greek artists did not we'll
when they made foreheads and noses Of
their gods run into one another in straight
line.
Better is the mild and gentle hollow at the
root of the nosa and better still the wide
and deep excavation on the upper surface
of the organ of smell, which gives it the as
piration Of divinity, according to the i'm
mortal Browne.
Moreover, if the girl with a straight nose
obeys the time-worn injunction and follows
it, whittier will she tenda Surely around
and around the earth Oh a parallel of lat
itude, meridian of longitude, or, what is
more difficult of navigation, a rhumb-line.
But if the girl with the pug nose follows it,
she goes as straight to Heaven as smoke on
MINDLESS day.
It may be that my more conventional
friends and fellow citizens will laugh at me
for loving versatile nose. Yet have thus
much merit; do not love the prehensile
nose of the tribes that refused to be lost.
These noses are the antipodes of the iuno-
cent and heayenWard pug, which is dear to
mine eyes.
And lastly, brother-iet me whisper this
softly, with an accompaniment of low music
the pug nose interferes not with the di-
vine institution Of OSCILLATION. It is benef-
Gently turned upward out of the way, and
leaves tine lips free and undefended, so that
you may impress thereon salute, friendly
touch OF a slow print Of love.
Sonny, this is where the pug-nosed girl
has the everlasting bulge or her sisters.