The St. Johns herald., 1889-03-07
THE PUG-NosED GIRL
rricotrin Pronounces Her a Thing of
 Deauty and 2 Joy Forever.


 Beauty and Joy Forever.
 I do remember me, in these faint and weary days, of the youth of my spirit, when wandered fancy free throu"h euch works as thU-c of the mortal Junius Ecnh Browne, writes Ificotrin 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 I was wont to laugh, knowing that thereby did Browne signify a pug-nosed girl with large gray eyes and sunburst of ambrosial curls that flied the earth with whi-c horses.
 Now that the sand-paper of adversity has scraped the gloss off my youth, and ex- posed beneath the varnish some of the cheap ness Of the natural material, laugh nCt 2t the pug-noscd girl I smile ct hcr For, verify, do conceive that she is thing of beauty and 6 joy forever.
 But, alas the philosophers are not with me. Authorities on personal beauty, from Winckelmann to Henry T. Finck, say that 6 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 Fincll, is characteristic CT youth. "L.ater in life,' he continues, ':those cavities (brain cavi- tiesJ bulge forward and produce the hollow, which is, tleI eIctc-e, 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 Gcities form straight line with the forehead was prob ably to give them the stamp of eternal youth"
 But why should straight line be beauti- ful in the midst of the gracious contours of the human face! The curvilinear prospect i5 that which wholly inspires the artistic mind. Docs rot even small boy, even one who has but one eye, and sees but One-half the glory Of nature, rejoice more in the curves of dogs tail, velocipede, 2 he goat, a mInce pie, football, marble, silver quarter, or what not, than in the square of the hypothenuse or the instruct or's ruler?
 And what is small boy, with unl1cpt hair and frec!xled cheeks, with seven warts upon his hands and the essence of joJ in his heart, but the incarnate spirit ot eternal youth, not yet tangled out of tunc by tEe 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 "traclGio s, blue immensity, and the tariff swells lile the shadow of doom, if the school keeps CT not?
 These things show thao there are both beauty and eternal love in curves, and argue that the Creek artists did not well when they made foreheads and noses of tLcir gods run into one another in Q straigkt line.
 41,0 I,O1l o% {1,O root of the nose, and better still the wide and deep excavation on the upper surface ol the organ of smell, which gives it the as- piration of divinity, according to the in mortal Browne.
 Moreover, if tho girl with a straight nose obeys the timc-wOrn injunction anu follows it, whithcr will she tend! Surely around and around tho earth on Q parallel of lat itude, meridian of longitude, or, what is more difficult of navigation, a rhumb-linc But if the girl with the pug nose follows it, she goes as straight to Heaven as smoke On a windlesS day.
 It may he thct my moro conventional friends end fclloW-ci;izcns will laugh at me for loving a versatile nSse. Yet have thus much merit; do not love the prehensile nose of tho tribes that refused to be lost. noses are the antipodes of the inno- cent and hcavcnward pug, winch is dear to mine eyes.
 And lastly, brother-let me whisper this softly, with an accompaniment of low music the Dug nose interfcros not WiCi. the di- vine insiiru, io. Of oscillation. It is benef- gently turned upward out of the way, and leaves tho lips free and undefended, so that you may impress thereona salute, a frienEly touch or a,sl0s7 print of love.
 Sonny, this is whore the pug-nosed girl has the everlasting bulge on her sisters.