Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-10-02
A STUDY OF NOSES.
Some Words Of Advice as to FeminiI
Noses and Their Owners.

Some Words Of Advice as to Feminine
Noses and Their Owners.
"Why only the noses of one sex, and why
only unbeautiful nosesl"
/ am not prepared to reply, retorts q
writer in the New York Herald, except that
as woman my own sex has been the book
most freely open to my perusal, and eccen.
trio features of any sort seeming to suggest
certain dominant traits in the possessor.
The study OF the characteristics of the wom-
an with nose which is not thing Of beau
ty has for some months interested and
amused me.
Previous to this / had often whiled the
time Of protracted horse-car ride in noting
the variety OF noses, ears and chins that go
to make up the features of o carful of the
general public, or to mark the unanimity
with which blue-eyed or dsrk-eyed people
seemed to have simultaneously decided to
go In one particular car to one particular
suburb.
But when q desire arose within me to
know whether certain characteristics were
denoted by crooked nose or q straight one,
/ naturally limited nay observations to the
sex whose mental economy was most ac-
ccssible for study, and dropped the super
6icial observance Of strangers. ceased
to compare the noses OF women of fashion
and washer-ladies imlartially, and took to
scanning those countenances more or less
familiar to me among my friends and &C
quaintances.
The result of my study is in favor Of the
woman with a crooked nose. The nose that
is so little out of drawing as to still be an at
tractive one must partake largely of all
traits, overbalanced on one side or the
other, according to the modification of other
strong tendencies as shown by other feat
ures.
Let the subject Of this screed no more sit
in ashes, nor have her picture painted as
did one foolish maiden with gauze fan far
over her lower face, since there arecom-
pensatlons in an ugly Nose.
The woman with crooked nose is usually
the moro fortunate in friendships, as she is
less likely to be scornful Of those less pleas
antly situated than herself, eitherby fortune
or favor; while, so far as personal qualities
and her purse go, she is more disposed to
be gracious and liberal and to swim with
the current that is popular.
Yet, in emergency, the ugly nose rises to
the occasion with dignity and promptness
at once the delight and terror of her near
est friends.
In matters of business have found the
woman with delicate, straight nose either
too easily advised by any stronger mind that
happened to be at hand, or possessed by an
utterly inconsequent tenacity of the first
idea which she grasped upon the matter of
the moment, showing Qf may so phrase
it, an unwise wisdom in such way as to
save her pence and lose, eventually, her
dollars. For example: Such nose has
been known to sell valuable lot of stock
because Of an editorial in her ea-table
paper, despite the discussions of brothers
and lawyer from the sacrifice.
The crooked nose, especially if backed
by good, straightforward eyes, is apt to be
Influenced by environment in different
way. That is, to leave stocks and bonds to
her natural protectors, while she has them
and they are not proven incompetent. But
in the case of such proof, or If suddenly be-
reft, she is apt to surprise every one by
promptly, even though timidly, taking mat
ters into her own hands, and after taking a
good cry and quietly thinking over the mat
ter-doing the very best thing possible. The
straight nose, similarly placed, would walk
magnificently on to financial disaster, or
dissolve all hope and spirit in the tears
which clear the atmosphere in which the
crooked nose scents success.
The same nose will be more patient in
planning and awaiting results in life. In
love affairs patient, possibly because its
wearer is not accustomed to the prompt
capitulation of the lovers of the Greek -nosed
maiden.
But here comes in the law of compensa-
ton. If slow to conquest is the crooked
nose, lover who loves the eyes above, the
mouth beneath or the soul in the girl who
bears the ugly feature may as well re-
sign himself at once to the sweet bondage,
and the more irregular the nose the more
useless to struggle.
The happiest homes within my knowledge
are those of men whose wives, many of
them beautiful in every other feature, have
eccentric noses. And of those who are
drifting or already out of the home harbor,
by legal release or pursuing fame in some
one of its enticing shapes, count from
memory, without effect, that unlucky num-
ber-thirteen, each with nose to serve as
sculptor's model,
Another is simply failing in her home life
by taking on her domestic cares In ad-
dition to those which, as q single woman,
she carried, with no injustice to others, in
stead OF displacing the old work with the
| new. She ''keeps" her house exquisitely,
but is failing in her home making, and will
perhaps too late realize what her nose has
! cost her and her devoted husband.
The straight-nosed woman governs and
adorns her children; the crooked -nosed
woman guides and wins them, mixing up
| caresses and Commandments in way to
make her calling and election sure as the
chosen ruler of all their hearts.
One little straight-nosed woman has, how
ever, set all my deductions at naught in this
| domestic phase, but this, since ] am tena-
cious, proves the general rule. After all,
there seems to me but one nose that is
| to be depended upon in any and all con-
dtions, and that IS ''tip-tilted, like the petals
of lower.' should advise son ts seek,
and, when found, woo and win, If possible,
the girl or woman with dear, delicious
pug nose. 1t is the safest