Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-03-03
"a STUDY OF NOSES.


EOaoa ah0 Ineir OWmore.
"Why only the noses Of one sex, and why
only unbeautiful nosesi'
1 am not prepared TO reply, retorts G
writer in the New York Herald, except thai
as woman my own sex has been the bool
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 won.
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 20
to make up the features Of carful Of the
general public, or to mark the uuanimity
with which blue-eyed or dark-eyed people
seemed to have simultaneously decided 70
go in one particular car to one particular
suburb.
But when a desire arose within me TO
know whether certain characteristics were
denoted by a crooked noseor a straight one,
naturally limited my observations to the
sex whose mental economy was most ac-
cessible for study, and dropped the super.
fiicial observance of strangers. I 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 crooked nose. The nose thai
is so little out of drawing as to still be an at
tractive one must partaSe largely of al
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 are com
pensatlons in an ugly nose.
The woman with crooked nose is usually
the more 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 60, 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 Gf l may so phrase
it) an unwise wisdom in such u way al 70
save her pence and lose, eventually, her
dollars. For example: Such a nose has
been known to sell valuable lot of stock
because of an editorial in her tea-table
paper, despite the discussions of brothers
and lawyer from the sacrifice.
The crooked nose, especially II 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 10 surprise every one by
even though timilly, TAXI g 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
on to financial disaster, or
lssoIve all nope ana splrlJ IN the tears
which clear the atmosphere in which the
rocked nose scents success.
The same nose will be more patient in
banning and awaiting results in life. In
ovc affairs patient, possibly because its
Searer is not accustomed to the prompt
.apitulation of the lovers Of the Greek-nosed
maiden.
But here comes in the law of compensa-
ion II slow to conquest is the crooked
lose, the lover who loves the eyes above, the
mouth beneath or the soul in the girl who
)ears the ugly feature may as well re-
ign himself at once to the sweet bondage,
nd the more irregular the nose the more
useless to struggle.
The happiest homes within my knowledge
Ire those OF men whose wives, many of
hem beautiful in every other feature, have
eccentric noses. And of those who are
lriftipg or already out of the home harbor,
~ legal release or pursuing fame in some
me of it's enticing shapes, count from
without effect, that unlucky num-
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-
iition to those which, as a single woman,
she carried, with no injustice to others, in
stead OF displacing the old work with the
new. She ''keeps" her house exouisitely,
but is failing in her home making, and will
too late realize what her nose has
cost her and her devoted husband.
The straight-nosed woman governs and
ldorns her children; the crooked .nosed
woman guides and wins them, mixing up
,aresses and lmmandments 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 oil my deductions ut naught in this
domestic phase, but this, since am tena-
,ious, proves the general rule After all,
here seems TO me but one nose that 10
10 be depended upon in any and all con-
litions, and that Is 'tip-tilted, like the petals
of a flower" / should advise son to seek,
and, when found WOO and win, if possible,
The girl or woman with dear, delicious
pug nose. 1t is the safest!