Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1892-03-29
A STUDY OF EARS.
THE HUMAN EAR AND THE TALE
1T TELLS TO THE OBSERVER.


ten Neglected as a Feature In the De-
lineation of Character.
Did any one ever go to any of the thea
tiers when the house was crowded and
smuse himself or herself studying the
ears of the audience? 1t will pay the
observing man to do so. He will realize
then that there are ears and ears; those
which indicate character in its several
degrees, individuality, tirmness, resolu-
ton, kindness and its antithesis, and the
various other attributes which go to
make up the widely varying specimens
of humanity.
A study of ears may not be entirely |
satisfactory. One is apt to find upon
somebody else with whom he is not des-
perately in ioV:Sa pair of auricular APP
pendages which resaind him forcibly OF
those he sees when facing his mirror. 1t
is rather an odd thing that the majority
of men and women, however, seldom
see their own ears. They can do Sc
readily with the aid of quick silvered
glass. but the vanity of human nature
seems TO stop at the features of the face.
A woman will spend half an hour ad-
miring her own pretty red lips and keep
the young man with theater tickets III
MS pocket waiting an hour while she
adjusts her eyebrows and gets just the
right complexion ON her cheeks, but the
ears are left to take care of themselves.
A wet rag is pushed hastily through
their intricacies and they have had their
share of attention. There are excep-
tons, of course. The woman who knows
that her ears are lovely and bound to at
tract admiration will play with them
affectionately and take care that her
hair is arranged SO that no fraction OF
them is hidden from view. Then there
are people whose ears stick out like the
head flaps of jackass-an elongated
nalformation. They can't help seeing
their ears-neither can any one else,
A REMARKABLE PAIR OF EARS.
1t was at Hooley's the other night that
a study was made Of the eccentricity OF
the ear The auditorium was crowded
and the jokes of the comedian emptied
into a thousand tympanic cavities. What
cavities some of them were too! There
was a man with a hole in his ear which
looked as though it might have been one
of the nine mouths of the Mississippi.
One would have thought steamer could
pass through it without sticking, and as
for the flies and earwigs, "a large colony
of them could have habitated there all
winter and hardly have been felt. Be
cause the cavity was large 1t must mol
be supposed that the owner OF the eal
was proportionately SO; to the contrary
this cavity was the biggest part OF him
He was little fellow; the ideal OF g
henpecked husband. The loudly de
yeloped channel of sound suggested The
probability of his being accustomed Il
hear frequent commands to "go anC
light the fire." or ''get up and give thu
baby paregoric." He seemed to be happ.
this time, for he was alone, and Their
were no such discordant sounds to offend
mis- hearing.
Near him was q man who had de
cided inclination to obesity. de wa
tall. too, and could have easily uppe'
the beam at 200 pounds. Now, ON
would have supposed that his auricula
members would have been develope
equally with the rest of his anatomy
One would have been disappointed, how
ever. They were almost mldgets along
side of those belonging TO the little maj
and looked as though they might hav
received shock in childhood from whic
they mad never recovered But in sit
OF their diminutiveness there was z ca
deal of don't-careness about them-a
INDEPENDENCE as to what they heard an
what they didn't hear. A wife mlgf
nave yelled fire and baby and paregor
at these ears all night and they woul
never have heard it; they were not col
structed after that fashion.
BEAUTIFUL PAIR OF EARS.
Alongside of him sat woman wi
was evidently the wife. Her ears we
long. irregular and stood out from u
side of her head like the dust guards
a sleeping car, They were ears who
1t could be plainly seen, were accustom'
TO being on the alert for some fanlii
voice. There was startled appearan
about them which indicated that tn
voice was in the habit of greeting the
with command or reprimand mo
than anything else. Evidently but ie
words of affection or endearment hi
passed through them.
I'm the row of seats just behind II
aueenly. interesting trio was a perfe
symphony of ears. They were not
ears Of men. but of women-pret
Young women, with deliberately II
dresses and aristocratic faces. mdet
these were patrician ears, and the ol
blood could almost be seen coursl
through them.
The girl who sat next to the end q
the prettiest ears of all. They W.
beauties. Moderately small, regular
formed, sloping off into an oval at
lobe, and thin almost to Transparent
There was a pinky tinge about Tn
which was ample apology for the pc
who sing about coral ears. They SIC
out from the head at almost an ex
angle They were perfect in every
ticular, but they were not respons
ears. They were accustomed to he
ing sweet nothings said, and sim
listening for more. They said plai
that their owner was one wrapped III
the contemplation of her own char
and expected all others TO be equally
and TO make it known in words. Lo
ing AT those ears one would have
scribed her as follows: Deep blue e.
nose inclined to Roman, red lips, wi
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