The age-herald., 1898-10-11
MOSES FOUND IN
 HISTORY AND FICTION

| considerable of poet even though he was. | There is nothing in his writings that the | world now cares much about, but he was | a man of immense vitality and spirit, with | an enormous nose-not a snout, be it | membered but well-shaped and tremen- | dous beak, about which he would not suffer | the slightest comment from friend or stran- ger without a duel. He served in the Cadet
 Gascons of his time, and, like his more fa-
 nous countryman D'Artagnan, whom Du-
 mas has immortalized he was ever ready
 for fight. It is said he could count a duel | for every day of h.s service in the cadets,
 and most of them in defense of his nose.
 Noses have played no insignificant part, | both in history and fiction. Julius Caesar
 liked to have fat and sleek men about him, | but Napoleon preferred big-nosed men. The | nose, he declared, was the foundation of | the braih and men with large noses had
 good intellects, and therefore would be good
 advisers and servants. All his marshals were men with large and prominent noses,
 as anyone see from their portraits. The world compellers, the men of mark | and action, have been men with big noses. | Napoleon's nose was large and well-shaped | and handsome, but of no distinct type, be- | ing neither Roman nor Grecian. Washing
 toms nose was distinctly aqulline, indicat- l ing the heroic firmness of character and l unconquerable will that we know he pos- | sessed. The same nose is seen in Yelling l ton, who had the same characteristics. | Examine the portraits of Bacon, Shakes | peare Dr. Johnson, Franklin, Dr. Rush and
 Emerson, and their noses will be seen to
 have been large and wide nostriled, indi- eating studious and reflective habits | Nearly all of the American presidents l have had good noses of the commanding l type. Mckinley has a nose of the Napo- | leonic order, indicating firmness of purpose | and mind patient and equal to arduous 1 things.
 | Pascal said that if the nose of Cleopatra | had been shorter the history of the world | would have been changed. Antony would | never have dallied with snub-nosed wo- man and sacrificed emp,re for her. In | the court of Cupid the nose must not be l ignored if one would have beauty, and yet | the praise of the nose has never been sung | by the poets My ladys eyes and eyebrows | and cheek and lps have all come in for | compliments, but rarely if ever the nose. 1 That ornament of the face. without which 1 the dearest love would be a hideous mon- | ster is never mentioned. The omission has 1 been noticed by a rhymester as follows: 1 Iris very odd that poets should suppose | There is no poetry about a nose, l When plain as is the nose upon your face, l A noseless face would lack poetic grace l Noses have sympathy; lover knows | Noses are always touched when lips are l kissing,
 And who should care to vss where noses l were missing?
 | And he concludes:
 I know a nose, a nose no other knows, 1 Meath starry eyes, OCT ruby lips it grows; l Beauty is in its form and music in it's blows
 Bardolph's nose was a perpetual subject f of mirth for Falstaff and the fat knight l was never tired of commenting upon it. 1 He says to Bardolph: "Thou art our ad- | miral, thou bearest the lantern in the poop but 'tis in the nose of thee; thou are the l Knight of the Burning Lamp.' 'Why, Sir John," replies Bardolph, "my | face does you no harm.' l "No, I'll be sworn; I make as good use of it as many a man doth of deaths l head or memento mori; I never see thy | face but think upon hell fire and Dives
 
 l burning burning. When thou canst up 1 Gads-hll in the night to catch my horse, I if did not think thou had'st been an ignis l fatuus, ,or ball of wildfire, there's no | purchase in money. O, thou art perpetual l triumph, an everlasting bonfire light. l Thou hast saved me thousand marks | in links and torches walking with thee in l the night betwxt tavern and tavern, but | the sack thou hast drunk me would have
 bought me lights as good cheap at the | dearest chandler's in Europe" ! Falstaff's last joke seems to have been on 1 "fumbling the sheets" acording to the re- ports of his last moments, he saw d flea | stick upon Bardolph's nose, and said "it | was a black soul burning in hell" The nose fits admirably into number of proyerbial expressions, as in 'nose of wax" ito stick ones nose into other peo- l ples business" ito cut off the nose to | spite the face" or Ito be as happy as a l dog that has broken his nose" No one | is at loss to understand these sayings.
 After Goneril has taken King Lear to | task for the riotous conduct of his retinue, 1 and Lear leaves her in mad passion to go | to Began, the Fool asks him, Thou canst | tell why ones nose stands in the middle O l ones face"
 l "No"
 "Why, to keep ones eyes of either sides | nose: that what a man cannot smell out l he may spy into"
 l The wisdom of the remark was too late | for poor Lear, who had already divided his l Kingdom between his ingrate daughters.
 The Chinese have no respect for the nose, | and it is said fiatten that organ in their fn- | fants so that it may not become prominent. l They think a big nose is a disgraceful de- | form.ty.
 | Very different were the feelings of Alfred | Crowquill, who, surveying his own admira- | ble proboscis, thus apostrophized it. | Knows he who never took a pinch,
 Nosey, the pleasure thence which flows? | Knows he the titillating joy | That my nose knows? | Oh Nose I am as proud of thee | As any mountain of it's snows; l I gaze on thee, and feel that pr.de | Roman knows.
 THE DERyISHES IN WHITE COTTON 1 Irror,, the New York Sun.