Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-11-29
1,,1; GIRL WITH 4 PUG NOSE
Shc is a Thing Of Beauty and a Joy For
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] doremember me, in these faint and
!, weary days, of the youth Of my spirit.
], when wandered fancy free through
such works as those of the mortal jun
;us Henri Browne, writes Tricdotnn
4 in Puck And do, moreover remen-
i Der me of a remark of his which went
thus: "Her nose was divine, inasmuch
rs it pointed toward heaven" Whereat
/ was wont to laugh, knowing that
I thereby did Browne signify pug-nosed
girl with large gray eyes and q sun
burst Of ambrosial curls that filled the
earth with white horses.
Now that the sandpaper of adversely
has scraped the gloss off my youth, and
exposed beneath the varnish some OF
the cheapness of the natural material,
laugh not at the pug-nosed girl. smile
at her. For, verify, lido conceive that
she is thing of beauty and JOY for
ever.
But, alas! the philosophers are not
with me. Authorities on personal
beauty, from Winckelmann to Henry
= T. Finck, say that a 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
Flinck, is characteristic of youth.
Later in life," he continues, "these
cavities DRAIN cavities) bulge for
ward and produce the hollow,
which is, therefore, an Indication of SUI
perior cranial development and higher
intellectual powers. Hence, as Profess
sor HOLMAN suggests, the object of the
Greek artists, is making the nose OF
their deities form straight line with
the forehead was probably to give them
the stamp of eternal youth"
But why should q straight line be
beautiful in the midst of the gracious
contours of the human face? The cur
vilinear 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-half the
glory of nature, rejoice more in the
curves of dogs tail, IL velocipede, a
he-goat, mince pie, a foot ball, mar
bic, silver quarter, OF what not, than
in the square OF the hypothenuse OF the
instructors ruler?
And what is small boy, with I'M
kempt hair and freckled cheeks, with
seven warts upon his hands, and the es-
sence OF JOY in his heart, but the in
carnate spirit of 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, "trachless,
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 youth in
curves, and argue that the Greek az
fists did not we'll when they made the
foreleads and noses Of their gods
! run into one another in 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 aspiration of
divinity, according to the immortal
Browne.
Moreover, if the girl with the straight
nose obeys the time-worn injunction
| and follows it, whittier will she tend
Surely around and around the earth on
parallel of latitude, meridian of long
itude, or what is more difficult OF navi-
CATION, a rhumb-line. But if the girl
with the pug-nose follows it, she goes
as straight to heaven as smoke on a
MINDLESS day.
1t may be that my more conventional
friends and fellow citizens will laugh at
me for loving versatile nose. Yet 1
have thus much merit; I do not love
the prehensile nose of the tribes that
refused to be lost. These noses are
the antipodes of the innocent and
heavenwerd pug, which is dear to mine
eyes.
And lastly, brother--let us whisper
this softly, with an accompaniment of
low music-the pug nose interferes not
with the divine institution of OSCILLATION.
1t is beneficently turned upward out Of
the way, and leaves the lips free and
undefended, so that you may impress
thereon salute, q friendly touch, or q
slow print Of love.
Sonny, this is where the pug-nosed
girl has the everlasting bulge on her
sisters.
SAFETY rs CONSULTED.
The lift, OF elevator, in German
houses is not displayed ostentatiously.
It is behind iron doors. To he 1etectad