Evening journal., 1890-01-02
ALL ABOUT THE NOSE.
HOW AN ORGAN MARKS THE Pc
cuLlARlTlEs OF RACES.


med's Beais-Napoleon's views on Nasal
organs-cutting on Noses as Punishment.
The nose forms one Of the characteristic
features Of the human face; and the more
one studies it the more he viii appreciate its
Importance. There are fourteen bones in the
nose and mass Of cartilages which are ossi-
| fed into immovabe rigdity. 1t is an un-
bending nose it viii domineer; it win die
tate it will subdue There are no two noses
alike but all noses have many things in com
mon. For example, all noses sneeze, snarl,
snuff, snore, snort, sneer, sniff shuttle, snig-
ger and snivel. Noses mark the peculiarities
OF races and the graduations OF society. The
zssoc OF Australians, the Esquimal.Y and the
negroes-broad, fl9t and weak-mark their
mental and moral characteristics. The strik-
| ing difference between the African negro and
| the North American Indian s sculptured on
their noses The Caucasian has a prominent
and well defined nose, and he leads in sub
| DUNG the world.
The Chinese have bad noses, and they are
| intellectually Superior race, but they are
not really proper exception, for they hatten
the noses Of their children in infancy. They
| have cultivated small and fiat noses for gem
| erntions upon some absurd notion that the
/ eyes bTt inc lIloiC LnkOfNduh, tAllu nhDuAu nOb
| be obacured by the nose You can also see
how the nose marks some Of the gradations
OF society around you. Look at the concave
faces Of the low and ignorant, those whom
/ you are sure TO find Of mornings In the police
courts, and who ndorn the cells OF our pris-
/ ons. You cannot for a moment associate
beauty, valor, genius or intellectual power
/ with sach noses.
| II you look at the progress OF the individ-
nal life, the contour Of the nose marks all its
stages. Who ever saw baby with Roman
/ or aquiline nose, on even a Greciani The
| baby nose Is little snub, tine nose of weak
| ness and undevelopment. The child's nose
keeps its inward curve; In youth It straight
ems, and then comes, in certain characters
and races, the bold outward curve Of the
aquiline or the stronger prominence of the
Roman. It may stop at any point in this
march Of progress and present case Of ar
rested development And we all feel instinct
lively that certain shaped nose Is the proper
index OF a certain character.
AMONG THE ANcIENrs-
Almost all great mon have been remarka-
bic for their noses either as to shape, or size
or color. Scipio Nasica derived his name
from the prominent share Of this feature
possessed by him; the immortal Ovid, sur
named Naso, was Mr.. Nosey, or bottle nose.
Socrates had a snub, but he was frank enough
TO admit that in his heart he WIS very bad
man. Trimming did much for him, as it does
for anybody; but man who enters life with
a snub Is seriously handicapped. In the med
| ais OF Cyrus and Artaxerxes the tips Of their
noses come clear out 10 the rim OF the coin.
| Antiochus VIII was an imposing prince.
They called him .'Grypus,n because his nose
was as big and hooked as a vulture's beak.
But then the ancient Persians permitted only
the owners Of large noses to enjoy royal hon
ors Numa's nose was six inches IN length,
whence he obtained his surname Of Pompilius,
as being the owner OF superlative nose.
Lycurgus and Solon, according TO Plutarch,
were distinguished in the Same manner.
Mohammeds nose must have been a curl
osity. 1t was so curved the point seemed to
be endeavoring to insert itself between his
lips. A later time and phenomenal nose
must have been that Of the Great Frederick.
Lavater offered TO wager his reputation that
blindfolded he could tell it out of 10000
other noses by simply taking it between his
thumb and forelnger The nose Of the EN-
peror Ludolph Of Austria saved his life in an
odd kind of way. During one Of his cam
paigns a troop OF knights entered into a con
spiracy 10 kill him. A peasant who was EN-.
ployed about the tents Of the conspirators one
evening overheard them say; Tomorrow
we'll surprise old big nose and cut him Z
piecesn After his work was over the peas
ant started out 10 visit some friends in an
other part of the camp. The emperor, who
was going about with some Of his knights
meeting the man, asked who be was anc
what was going on in his part of the camp
He innocently told that there would be fuI
next morning, as they were going to cut q
1 a ~.
chance TO get out Of bed ''next morning.
The French and, indeed, all the other Latir
races, are remarkably ''nosy.n Napoleon
Is nose was exquisitely chiseled, sculptur
esque in mold, form and expression. He wa
won't 70 say, "Giye me man with plenty o.
nosen He little dreamed that he was des
tined to to be baflied by a people-the Rus
sians-whose noses were well nigh level will
their faces, and that his ultimate victor wa
TO be a man with the most prominent nose il
Europe-Arthur Duke of Wellington. Th'
Parisians called Napoleon III "Grosbec'
, Nosey Alexander the Great had larg,
nose, so had Richeleu and Cardinal Wolsey
Look at the portrait Of Washington. All
that is great in firmness, patience and hero
ism is stamped upon his nose, which is th,
true aquiline. Julius Caesars nose was Of tn
same type, and he possessed the same charac
teristics Of patient courage and heroic firm
, ness that belonged TO Washington
The wide nostriled nose betokens stron,
power OF thought and love for serious medi
tation. and these you see in the portraits O
, Shakespeare, Bacon, Franklin and Dr. John
, son, and others OF our great students anC
/ writers. Gibbon had hardly any moss at all
I He had wee, little protuberance in thl
middle Of his face which, by courtesy, wa
: called a nose, but il was hardly discernible
set in between two enormous cheeks Tychl
+ Brahe lost his nose in duel and wore
! golden one, which he attached to his fac
with cement which he always carried about
Rameses II used TO cut of the nose Of an,
I subject accused Of talking treason agains
him. Actianes, another ruler Of Egypt, has
9 a novel way Of Furnishing robbers He Gu
r OF their noses and colonized them-the rob
bers-in desert place, which he calle'
: Rhinoconun, from the nature OF the punish
. ment OF its citizens On the other hand, an,
{ more humane, perhaps was his punishment
' Of dishonest butchers. 1t was unique
S hook was put through their nose aud a piec
. of meat was hung upon it.
( In 1871 Charles II had the nose Of Lor
s Coventry, keeper OF the seal Of England, Gu
Off, because he dared to ask in parliament a
inquisitive question about some actresses O
the day. Later, Frederick the Great had
B noblemans nose cut or because he proteste
openly that he had been enrolled in the arm
A through fraud Criminals have been know
' 70 cut of their noses to escape detection
Q Making new nose has often been performe
q In America since DR.. J. Mason Warren. Q
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