Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-02-09
THE PUG-NOSED GIRL.

| Tricotrin Pronounces Her n Thing CT
| Beauty and IL Joy Forever.
do remember me, in these faint an
weary days, of the youth of my spirit, Wncl
l wandered fancy free through such work
as those of the mortal Junius Hem
| Browne, writes Tricotrin in Puck. And
! do, moreover, remember me of remark O.
his which went thus: "IIer nose Wa'
divine inasmuch as it pointed toward
Heaven" Whereat was wont to laugh.
knowing that thereby did Browne signify d
pug-nosed girl with large gray eyes and
sunburst Of ambrosial curls that filed tho
earth with white horses.
Now that the sand-paper Of adversely has
scraped the gloss Off my youth, and OK
posed beneath the varnish some of the cheap
ness of the natural material, l laugh not At
the pug-nosed girl. 1 smile at her. For,
verify, do conceive that she is q thing of
beauty and a Joy forever.
But, alas the philosophers are not with
me. Authorities on personal beauty, from
Winckelmann to Henry I. Finclz, say that
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 al
| the root of the nose, and this, quOth Finch,
| is characteristic of youth. . Later IN life, "
he continues, ''thcsc cavities Drain cavi-
ties) bulge forward and produce the hollow,
which is, therefore, an indication of superior
cranial development and higher intellectual
powers Hence, as Prof. Kollmann sug-
| gests, the object of the Greek artists III
making the nose of their deities form Il
straight line with the forehead was prob
ably to give them the stamp of eternal
| youth"
But why should a straight line be bcauti-
| full in the midst of the gracious contours OF
the human face! The curviiinear prospect
is that which wholly inspires the artistic
mind. Does not even small boy, even one
who has but one eye, and sees but one-halt
the glory of nature, rejoice more i'll the
curves of dogs tail, vclocipede, he
goat, q mince pie, a football, marble, a
tilver quarter, or what not, than i'll the
square of the hypothenuse or the instruct
ors rulcrl
And what is small boy with unkept
hair and frecl1lcd checks, with seven warts
upon his hands and the essence of JOY IN
his heart, but the incarnate spirit OF eternal
youth, not yet tangled out Of tune by the
shadow Of age and the inevitable wrestling
for the wherewithal? Docs he bite his lip:
if the world grows old and Kingdoms fail, il
| commerce VaniShes into trGcllcSs, blue
immensely, land the tariff swclls like tht
shadow Of doom, if the school keeps or not.
These things show that there arc both
beauty and eternal love in curves, and
argue that the Greek artists did not well
when they made forcheads and noses Of
their gods run into one another in q 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
| obcys the timc-Worn in junction and follows
| it, whittier will she tend! Surely around
| and around the earth on a parallel of lat
itude, meridian of longitude, or, what is
more difficult Of navigation, 4 rhumb-line.
But if the girl with the pug nose follows it,
she goes as straight to Heaven as smoke on
MINDLESS day.
1t may be that my more conventional
friends and fellow-citizcns will laugh at nc
| for loving versatile nSSG. Yet | have thus
much merit; do not love the prchensile
nose of the tribes that refused to be lost.
These noses are the antipodos Of the inno-
cent and heavenward pug, which is dear to
mine eyes.
And lastly, brothcr-lct me whisper this
softly, with an accompaniment of low music
the pug nose intcrferes not with the di-
vine institution of OSCILLATION. 1t is bencf-
Gently turned upward out of the way, and
leaves the lips free and undefcnded, so that
you may impress thereon salute, a friendly
| touch or a slow print Of love
ia O-nnSnd
has the everlasting bulge on her sisters.