The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1888-12-29
THE PUG-NOSlEO GIRL
Tricotrin Pronounces Her Thing of
Beauty and Joy Forever.

Tricotrin Pronounces Her Thing OF
Beauty and u Joy Forever.
do remember me. in these faint and
weary days. of the youth of my spirit, when
wandered fancy free through such works
As those of the mortal Junus Henri
browne. writes Trlcotrln in Puck. And
do, moreover, remember me of remark OF
his which went thus; " Her nose was
divine nasmuch as II pointed toward
HrtNcu.n Whereat was wont TO laugh.
showing that thereby did Browne signify a
pug.nosed girl with large gray eyes and a
,uuburst of ambrosiai curls that filled the
"a? b with white horses
Now that the sand-paper OF adversely has
scriped the gloss of my youth, and ex-
posed beneath the yarnish 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 a JOY forever.
But, alas the philosophers are not with
me Authorities on personal beauty, from
Wncl'l,nann to Henry T. Fiuck, say that
a 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
llt rDbl III ltlt HbNft anu WIS, luUtu Iin'h
is characteristic of youth. Later in life"
he continues, "these cavities Drain cavi-
t.es, bulge forward and produce the hollow,
which is, therefore, an Indication of superior
crauiaI 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 IA
straight line with the forehead was prob
Oh "a fyira than ha tar nf at
youth"
But why should a straight line be beautl-
ful in the midst OF the gracious contours OF
the human face! 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-hali
thc glory OF nature, rejoice more in the
curves of dogs tail, velocipede, he
goat, mince pie, football, marble, .
tilver quarter, or what not, than in the
square of the hypothenuse or the instruct
or's ruler!
And what is small boy, with unkep
hair and freckled cheeks, with seven wart.
upon his hands and the essence of joy il
his heart, but the incarnate spirit OF eterna
youth, not yet tangled out Of tune by thu
shadow of age and the inevitable wrestling
for the wherewthal, Does he bite his lip
il the world grows old and kingdoms fail, /
commerce vanlshes into "trackless, blu
immensely, sand the tariff swells like tn
shadow OF DOOM II the school keeps or not
These things show that there are bot
beauty and eternal love in curves, an
argue that the Greek artists did not wei
when they made foreheads and noses @
their gods run into one another in straigt
line,
Better is the mild and gentle hollow at tn
root of the nose, and better still the wild
and deep excavation on the upper surfaC
OF the organ of smell, which gives it the Al
piration Of divinity, according to the in
mortal Browne.
Moreover, il the girl with straight nos
obeys the .ime-worn injunction and follow
il, whittier will she tend! Surely aroun
and around the earth on n parallel of Ia
tude, meridian OF longitude, or, what
more difficult of navigation, rhumb lin,
But il the girl with the pug nose follows
she goes as straight to Heaven as smoke Q
awindless day
1t may be that my more convention
friends and felowcltizens will laugh at II
for loving versatile nsse. Yet have TN
much merit; do not love the prehonsi
nose of the tribes that refused to be los
These noses are the antipodes of the inn
cent and heavenward pug, which is dear
mine eyes,
And lastly, brother-let me whisper II,
softly, with an accompaniment of low mus
the pug nose interferes not with the
vine institution of OSCILLATION 1t is benc
Gently turned upward out Of the way, Al
leaves the lips free and undefended so til
you may impress thereon a salute, u friend
touch or u slow print of love.
Sonny this is where the pug-nosed q
has the everlasting bulge on her sisters.