Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-08
ALL ABOUT NOSES.
Reading Character by Aid of Ones Nasal
Organs.

that as woman my own sex has been
the book most freely open to my Pc
rusal. and eccentric features of any
sort seeming to suggest certain domi-
nant traits In the poSsessor. The study
of the characteristics of the woman
with nose which is not a thing of
beauty has for some months interested
me.
Previous to this | had often whiled
the time of q protracted horse-car ride
in noting the variety of noses, ears
and chins that go TO make up the
features of a carful of the general pub
lie Or mark the unamimitv with
which blue-eyed or dark-eyed people
seemed to have simultaneously decided
to 90 in one particular car to one par
ticular suburb.
But when desire arose within me to
know whether certain characteristics
were denoted by crooked nose or a
straight one, | naturally limited my
observations to the sex whose mental
economy was most accessible for study,
and dropped the superficial observance
of strangers. | ceased to compare the
noses of women of fashion and washer
ladies impartially, and took to scan
ming those countenances more or less
familiar to me among my friends and
acquaintance.
The result of nv study is in favor of
the woman with crooked nose. The
nose that is so little out of drawing as
to still be an attractive one must par.
take largely of all traits, overwhelming
on one side or the other, according to
the modification of other strong ten
denotes as shown by other features.
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 oyer her lower
face, since there are compensations in
an ugly nose.
The woman with crooked nose is
usually the more fortunate in friend
ships, as she is less likely to be scorn-
fui of those less pleasantly situated
than herself, either by fortune or favor;
while so far as personal qualities and
her purse goes 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 nearest friends.
In matters of business | have found
the woman with a delicate, straight
nose either too easily advised by a
stronger mind that happened to be at
hand or possessed by an utterly in
consequent tenacity of the first idea
which she grasped upon the matter of
I
phrase it) an unwise wisdom in such a
way as to save her pence and lose,
eventually, her dollars. For example,;
Such nose has been known to sell a
valuable lot of stock because of an
editorial in her tea-tahle paper, despite
the discussions of brothers and lawyers
from sacrifice
The crooked nose, especially if
backed by good, straightforward ewes,
is apt to be influenced by environment
in different way. That is, leave
stocks and bonds to her natural pro-
tectors, while she has them, and they
are not proven incompetent. But i'll
the case of such proof, or if suddenly
bereft, she is apt to surprise every one
promptly, even though timidly, taking
matters into her own hands, and after
taking good cry and quietly thinking
out the matter-doing the very best
thing possible. The straight nose,
similarly placed, would walk magnii-
Gently 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, possible
because its wearer is not accus toned
to the prompt capitulation of the lovers
of the Greek-noSed maiden.
But here comes in the law of COM
pensation. If slow to conquest is the
crooked nose, the lover who loves the
eyes above, the lips beneath or the
soul in the girl who bears the ugly
feature, may as we'll resign himself at
once to the sweet bondage. And the
more irregular the nose the more use
less the struggle.
1t is senseless to blame Mrs. Potter
for her conception of Cleopatra. What
better could be expected of a woman
with the ineffable nose that adOrns her
pretty face? So it is-generous and
magnificent impulses or conception
of good OF evil are impossible to
the woman of delicate, compressed
nostrels.
Beware of the crooked nose with
heavy eyebrows close together, for
with the large nature is apt to be found,
in such case, a. tempestuous jealousy,
that counteracts the superbness of the
affections and mars the intellectual
grasp.
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 al
ready out of the home harbor, by legal
release or pursuing fame in some one
of it's enticing shapes, / count from
memory, without effort, that unlucky
number-thirteen, each with nose 70
serve as a sculptor's model.
Another is simply failing in home
life by taking on her domestic cares in
addition to those which, as a single
woman, she carried, with no injustice
to others, instead of displacing the
old work with the new. SIC 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 hush and.
The straight-nosed woman governs
and adorns her children; the crooked
nosed woman guides and wins them,
mixing up caresses and command
ments in way to make calling and
election sure as the chosen ruler of all
their hearts.
One little straight-nosed woman has.