The Russellville Democrat., 1892-04-21
A sTuDv OF EARS
The Hnman Ear and the Tale it Tells t'
 the Observer

! ne hHt1tth i+tI AhU me atAAt tt Atiio VI the Observer.
 Did any one ever go to any of the theatres when the house was crowded and amuse himself or her. self studying the ears of the audi eneei It will pay the obserysng man to do so He will realize then that there are ears and earS; those which indicate character in iey sew eral degrees, Individuality, hrmnesss, resolution, kindness and it's anti thesis, and the various other attrib- utes which go to make up the widely varying specimens of humanity.
 A study of ears may not be en- tirely satisfactory One is apt to | find upon somebody else with whom he is not desperately in love q pair of aurieular appenlages which remind him forcibly of those he sees when facing a mirror It is rather an odd thing that the majority O.; men and women, however, seldom see their own ears. They can do so readily with the aid of a quick-silvered 1 glass, but the vanity of human na- l ture seems to stop at the features of the face.
 A woman will spend half an hour admiring her own pretty red lips and keep the young man with theater | tickets in his 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 in- tricacies and they have had their share of attention. There are ex- captions, of course. The woman who knows that her ears are lovely and bound to attract 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 a iackass-an elongated malformation. They can't help seeing their ears-neither can any one else.
 A REMARKABLE PAIR OF EARS.
 It was at Hooley's the other night that a study was made of the eccen- tricity 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 whole in his ear which looked as though 1t might have been one of the nine mouths of the Mis- sissippi One would have thought a steamer could pass through 1t without sticking, and as for the flies and earwigs, large colony of them could have hatitated there all winter and hardly have been felt. Because the cavity was large 1t must not be supposed that the owner of the ear was proportionately so; to the contrary, this cavity was the biggest part of him. He was a little fellow -the ideal of hen-pecked husband. The loudly developed channel of sound suggested the probability of his being accustomed to hear ire quent commands to Ego 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 his hearing.
 Near him was man who had a decided 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, however They were almost midgets alongside of those belonging to the little man, and looked as though they might have received a shock in childhood, from which they had never recov. cred. But in spite of their diminu- tiveness there was a great deal of don 't-careEess about them-an inde- l pendence as to what they heard and what they didn't hear A wife might have yelled fire and baby par egorie at these ears all night, and | they would never have heard it they were not constructed after that | fashion.
 A BEAUTIFUL PAIR OF EARS.
 Alongside of him sat woman who was evidently the wife. Her ears were long, irregular and stood 1 out from the side of her head like l the dust guards in sleeping car. They were ears which, it could be l plainly seen, were accustomed to be- ing on the alert for some familiar voice. There was a startled appear ance about them which indicated l that this voice was in the habit of | greeting them with a command or a reprimand more than anything else. Evidently but few words of affection or endearment had passed through 1 them.
 In the row of seats just behind ! this queenly, interesting trio was a perfect symphony of ears. They | A