Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-01-13
IN STUDY OF NOSES.

only unbeautiful nOsesf"
am not prepared to reply, retoTts
writer in the New York Herald, except that
as a woman my own sex has been the book
most freely open to my perusal and eccen-
trlc features Of any sort seeming TO Suggest
certain dominant traits in the possessor.
The study Of the characteristics OF the WON
an with a nose which is not thing OF beau
tv has for some months interested and
amused me.
Previous TO this had often whiled the
time Of a protracted horse-car ride in noting
the variety OF noses, ears and chins that go
TO make up the features Of carful Of the
general public, or to mark the unanimity
with which blue-eyed or dark-eyed people
seemed 10 have simultaneously decided TO
20 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 q straight one,
naturally limited my observations TO the
sex whose mental economy was most ac-
cessible for study, and dropped the super
ficial observance Of strangers l 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 ac-
quaintances.
The result Of my study is in favor Of the
woman with a crooked nose. The nose that
is so little out of drawing as TO still be an at
tractive one must partake largely of all
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 a gauze fan far
over her lower face, since there are com
pensatIOns in an ugly nose.
The woman with a 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 90, 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 a delicate, straight nose either
too easily advised by any stronger mind that
happened to be at hand, or possessed by an
utterly incOnsequent tenacty Of the first
idea which she graspcd upon the matter of
the moment, showing Of may 50 phrase
it) an unwise wisdom in such way as to
save her pence and lose, eventually, her
dollars. For example: Such a nose has
been known to sell a 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 If backed
by good, straightforward eyes, is apt to be
influenced by environment in a 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 TO surprise every one by
! promptly, even though timid.y, taking 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
magnitcently 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, possibly because its
woarer is not accustomed to the prompt
capitulation of the lovers of the Greek-nosed
maiden.
| But here comes in the law of compeusa-
ton, If slow TO conquest is the crooked
nose, the lover who loves the eyes above, the
mouth beneath or the soul in the girl who
bears the ugly feature may as well re-
| sign himself at once to the sweet bondage,
and the more irregular the nose tho more
useless to struggle.
| 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 already out Of the home harbor
by legal release or pursuing fame in some
one of its 6nticing shapes count from
memory without effect that uulucky mum
ber-thirteeu, each with a nose to serve as a
sculptor's model
Another is simply failing in her home life
by taking on her domestic cares in ad-
dition 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 eXquisitely,
but ~ failing in her home.makiug, and will
perhaps too late realize what her nose has
cost her and her devoted husband
The straightuosod woman governs and
adorus her children; the crooked uosed
woman guides and wins them, mixing up
caressos and commandments in a way to
make her calling and election sure as the
chosen ruler of all their hearts
One little straightu0sod woman has, how
over, set all my deductions az uaught in this
domestic phase, but this, since am teua-
cious, proves the general rule. After all,
there seems To me but one nose that n
70 be depended upon in any and all con-
dsuons, aud that Is "up-ti.ted, like the petals
Of flower | should advise a son to seek
and, when found, woo and win, if possible,
the girl or woman with a dear, delicious
pug nose Ii is the safest!