The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-03-16
A STUDY OF EARS.
Ivt4E HUMAN EAR AND THE TALE
n TELLS TO THE OBSERVER.

ton Neglected Feature In the De-
liueatfon of .Character
Did any one ever go To any of the thea
hers when the house was crowded and
amuse 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. frnness, resolu.
ZION, kindness and it's antithesis, and the
4 various other attributes which go to
make up the widely varying specimens
Of humanity
study Of ears may not be entirely
satisfactory. One is apt to find upon
somebody else with whom he is not des-
sexteAy IN love pair of auricular ap-
pendages which remind him forcibly of
those he sees when facing his mirror. 1t
u rather an odd thing that the majority
OF men and women however, seldom
Gee their own ears They can do so
readily with the aid Of q 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 in
mis- 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 intricaciee and they have had their
-share of attention There are excep-
lions, OF course. The woman who knows
that her ears are lovely and bound to at
tract admiration will play with them
Na.-~1 NAl.,
nafr is arranged so that no fraction of
them is hidden from view Then there
are people whose ears stick ont like the
head flaps Of a jackass-an elongated
malformation. They can't help seeing
their ears-neither can any one else.
A REMARKABLE PAIR OF EARS.
II WAS at Hooleys the other night that
n study was made Of the eccentricity of
the ear The auditorium was crowded
and the Jokes of the comedian emptied
into thousand tympanic cavities What
cavities some Of them were too: There
was man with hole in his ear which
looked as though it might have been one
of the nine mouths of the Mississippi
One would have thought a steamer could
pass through it without sticking. and as
for the flies and earwigs. large colony
of them could have habitated there all
winter and hardly have been felt. Be-
cause the cavity was large it must not
.ee supposed that the owner of the ear
was proportionately SO: to the contrary
tins cavity was the biggest part of him
lie was a little fellow; the ideal OF a
ihenpecked husband The loudly de
veioped channel of sound suggested the
proba bility OF his being accustomed to
hear frequent commands to "go and
light the fire." or "get up and give the
baby paregoric- He seemed to be happy
this time. for he was alone, and there
were no such discordant sounds to offend
mis- nearing
Near him was a man who had a de-
cided inclination to obesity He was
tall too. and could have easily tipped
the beam at 200 pounds Now. one
would have supposed that his auricular
members would have been developed
equally with the rest of his anatomy
One would have been disappointed, how.
ever They were almost nidgets along
sade OF those belonging to the little man
and looked as though they might have
received a shock in childhood from which
they nad never recovered But in spite
OF their diminutiveness there was a great
deal Of don t-careness about theln-an
independence as to what they heard and
what they didn't hear A wife might
nave yelled fire and baby and paregoric
at these ears all night and they would
never nave heard it. they We're not con
structed after that fashion.
a BEAUTIFUL PAIR OF EARS
Alongside OF him sat a woman who
was evidently the wife Her ears were
long. irregular and stood out from the
side OF ner head like the dust guards in
q sleeping car They were ears which,
II couii be plainly seen. were accustomed
10 being on the alert for some familiar
voice There was a startled appearance
about them which indicated that this
voice was In the habit of greeting them
with command or reprimand more
Than anything else Evidently but few
words Of affection or endearment had
passed through them.
In the row of seats Just behind this
iqueeuIy interesting trio was a perfect
symphony of ears They were not the
ears OF men but of women-pretty
iyoung women. with elaborately rich
dresses and aristocratic faces Indeed.
these were patrician ears. and the blue
blood could almost be seen coursing
through them
The giri who sat next to the end had
the prettiest ears of all. They were
beauties Moderately SMALL regularly
formed, sloping of into an oval at the
lobe, and thin almost to transparency
There was a pinky tinge about them
(which was ample apology for the poets
who sing about coral ears. They stood
scut from the head at almost an exact
angie. They were perfect in every par.
lticuIar. but they were not responsive
lears. They were accustomed to hear
ting sweet nothings said and simply