Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-08-31
THE PUG-NOSED GIRL
Tricotrin Pronounces Hor Thing of
 Reauty and a Joy Forever.

Tricotrin Pronounces Hcr a Thing of
 Beauty and a Joy Forever.
 I do remember 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 do, moreover, remember me of a remark of his which went thus: Her nose was divine inasmuch as it pointed toward Heaven" Whereat was wont to laugh, knowing that thereby did Browne signify a pug-nosed girl with large gray eyes and a sunburst of ambrosial curls that filled the earth with white horses.
 Now that the sand-paper of adversity has scraped the gloss off 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, I do conceive that she is a thing of beauty and joy forever.
 But, alas the philosophers arc not with me. Authorities on personal beauty, from WincllClmann to Henry T. Fiuck. say that a nose should be strai -rht. Brother riuril says that the Grcc!l artists, U..o L2.-,e straight noses, took tArIr idea of t,.l 1.{ I.o nose from the contours OfrhilQh0Gi Their gods and goddcsSes possessed no cavity at the root of tho nose, and this, quoth Fiuck, is characteristic of youth. "Latcr in life" he continues, "thosc cavities (Orain cavi- ties) bulge forward and produce the hollow, which is, therefore, an indication of superior cranial development and higher intellectual powers. Hence, as Prof. kOllmanu Sug- gests, the object of the Greek artists in making the nose of their Gcities form a straight line with the forehead was prob ably to give them the stamp of eternal youth"
 But why should straight line be beauti- c., the human face? The curviliuear prospect is that which wholly inspires the artistic mind. Does not even a small boy, even one who has but one eye, and sees but one-half the glory of nature, rejoice moro in the curves of q dogs tail, a vclocipede, a he goat, mince pie, football, marble a silver quarter, or what not, than in the square of the hypothcnuse or the instruct or's ruler!
 And what is a small boy, with unl1ept hair and freckled checks, with seven warts upon his hands and the essence of joy in his heart, but the incarnate spirit ot 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 if the world grows old and kingdoms fail, if commerce vanishes into "trackless, blue immensity, "and the tariff swells like the shadow of doom, if the school keeps or not!
 These things show that there are both beauty and eternal love i'll curves, and argue that the Greek artists did not well when they made foreheads and noses of their gods run into one another in a straight line
 Better is the mild and gentle hollow at the root of the nose 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, whither will she tendl Surely around 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 ou a windless day.
 It may be that my. more conventional friends and fellowcitizens will laugh at me for loving versatile nose. Yet have thus much merit; I do not love the prehensile nose of the tribes that refused to be lost These noses are the antfpodes of the inno- cent and heavenward pug winch is dear to mine eyes.
 And lastly, brother-lct me whisper this softly, with an accompaniment of low music the pug nose interferes not with the di, vine institution of osculation. It is beneti- gently turned upward out of the way, and leaves the lips free and undefendcd, so that you may impress thereon a salute, a.friendly touch or slow print of love-
 Sonny, this is where the pug-nosed girl has the everlasting bulge on her sisters.