Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-02-25
Nos0lOgy Explained.

WHAT POETS AND PHILOSOPHERS HAVE FOUND 10 SAT-
ON THE sUJkcr.
From the London Echo.
Thomas Moore differs from me, for he writes
quite obvious OF Lavater:
In vain We fondly strive to trace
The souls reflection in the face:
In dwell on lines and crouaeS
G fCss, noses an, and short o. proboseis.
As Plato and the stagyerite:
And And many sage and M learned skull
Noses have, however. been held In respect for
many reasons by the learned. As an oracle the old
writer's held that II was sure sign OF faithful
| IN your company?" And, poor wretch, Just as sne
said this, TO show her true heart her nose fell
bleeding. Bleeding OF the nose did not always in
dictate this, however, as the learned Crosse pleaded
for he held: "If nose bleed one drop only It FORE
BODIES sickness; II three drops, the omen is stu
gist,' said: "If a mans moose bleeds one drop at
the left nOstril 1t is sign Of good luck Decker
On tne other mana neia Lnat the principal use OF
guests:
We shall ha, guests to-day
There are lots Of expressions in popular par
lance, TOO to snow how important the nose is con-
sidered For Instance one speaks Of dupe as q
Othello:
He was led by the nose as asses are
TO "a sa1gSa IL the nOse again. is held
origin in an old practice OF king odin,
or pS ~ penny o
not only nose puller. bit nose owner who is
weak enough to let pee pie wiring his proboscis and
of Protestants and Roundheads slit the noses OF
cavaliers but in the war OF 1S77-7s the Montene-
grins generally cut OF the noses Of all the Turkish
prisoners that they CHANGED to take.
still, though suffering the occasional indignity
OF a tweak. good nose only belongs to the clever
mana man who Is able to find out secrets. For,
as the Latin poet says:
Non cuicunque datum est habere natum
which freely rendered into English means:
IL Is not given to everybody TO have nose Qkeen
witt.
stu, as have remarked, the nose is not treated
WIN Inc respect that It should be- and this Is pos
You VIII remember Barham's lines:
The sacrstan expressed no words
To indicate a doubt:
But he put his thumb unto his nose
And spread his fingers out.
Naturally the hands placed tandem In front OF
the nose put the organ itself In some peril, and
hence IL gets hit occasionally in fight, as witness
Hudlbras, who notes that:
Those who in quarrels interpose,
Must often wipe ss bloody nose.
Polished Manners.
GOOD BREEDING TOO OFTEN FORGOTTEN IN THE
HURRY OF THE TINES.
From the Queen.
Perhaps it is owing to the hurry In which most
OF us pass our lives that can not afford time to
be polite, and perhaps also the want OF courtesy
shown by men to women is-as we are often told
the fault OF women themselves, they having toll
Grated bad manners so long that now good man
ners are voted out OF date and forgotten. Men
certainly accept every sort or hospitality, and in
many cases never trOubl, themselves to pay the
smallest attention to their hoStesseS after,
lar as to leave card; and IL they are asked to a
pa where there is not Likely to he any special at
Traction, they go just in time LOT supper, then
lounge in the doorway for half an hour, and
depart-to the annoyance or the girls who are
probably very much in The majority.
There are many other sins against courtesy and
good taste which happen constantly and will oc-
cur to tne minds OF everybody; but they have
established such prescriptiye right TO exist by
down with black mark against them they
should be.
Women, too, are not by any means examples OF
good manners. They VIII do desperately rude
things sometimes. IL It suits them and the sort OF
shp-dash, loud-voced way OF talking which some
o. them affect gives the impression OF anything
rather than good breeding. A low voice Is San
excellent Thing IN woman" we are told and the
idea OF d "gentewOmaa." TO use the good old
English word, is something the very reverse OF
noisy or masculine, though at the present day
both those atjectives might fairly be applied to
many women who consider themselves perfect as
TO manners. Woman has to give way 10 man IN
q great many things, on the principle Of the
weaker giving way TO the stronger, but when 1t Is
aluestlon ot courtesy, man should always be like
CkeVaner Bayard, sans repro he, and treat her as
though she were queen, and he her vassal.