Arizona republican., 1898-12-07
THE STORY or X
 PRETTY GIRLS NOSE
How inc Lifting of a Mask Cooled inc
 Ardor of an Admirer.

;the question: How would play turn ing upon a fascinating woman with -bulbous turnip. nose be received? It doubtless would be at once tluomed to disaster Tue question Of such pIo- boscis upon 2 woman i3 Wittily handled in the sparkling little translation from the Spanish which we print herewith. i. i5 reminiscent of the anecdote which is told Of Arago, the famous French sci enlist, who was gifted by Providence with great brain and a mighty nose. During carnival time-when in Paris in the old days all sorts Of pranks and curious costumes were permitted Arago found himself in an omnibus, opposite mother and her infant cnlld- At sight O. Arago's extraordinary beak, the infant set up a dismal vail. The mother at first attempted to qulet the terrified infant; but, failing, LOOK her courage in her two hands, as the French say, and at once impulsIvely exclaimed to Arago: "Oh, monsieur, l beg Of you 10 take off your nOse." The irritated scientist was obliged to eX- plain that his nose was not q carnival nose. but that it belonged there. The incident in this little translation Sug- gests the Ara go anecdote.)
 My little masduerader, is it possible that I am not to see your face?"
 Tt cannot be. The desire of grati- flying you counsels me to keep the mask on"
 Your conversation charms me, and every word increases my inpa-ience to know you.
 Did you not call ne the sweet object of your inspiration? While l remain concealed 1 am sure of hearing fiat tering expressions from your mouth, to which I am not accustomed, perhaps If I remove this protecting crape from my face, then farewell to Illusion!
 This modesty is. to me, the best proof or your merit
 'Yes have the merit of being mod est-no. I am wrong: 1 mean of being sincere"
 You, you are net ugly: I can swear it. Only one thing would grieve me, l continued, If you should unmask."
 ''What?"
 That it would, not be lawful to speak to you as to mountain girl-as to q masquerader. Now, 1 speak to you as an intimate friend or a lover would do"
 Were I to commit the indiscretion Of taking of my mask, you would has ten to leave me; you would hardly be able to articulate, an indifferent and r
 'I will suppose for moment that you are ugly, hideous; could you re- move with the mask the spell that al- lures me? If the attractions of your conversation, Of this voice that be- witches me, of this grace that charms me-. can be removed with this mask, how can q woman appear ill with such gifts? If your face is ugly, l pardon you for it.
 But you are more indulgent than other men. In their eyes ugliness is a woman's greatest crime"
 "Oh, am of another species, or else you calumniate the men, little noun tain girl. Undo this mask that tor ments me, and you will see how, far from being cooled, my affection will Do not believe my proposition is so venturesome; where can this ugli- ness reside with which you pretend to frighten me? Do I not behold the ele- gance of your shape? Do 1 not clasp your beautiful hand? Am I not fasci- mated with your small and graceful foot? Does not the palpj,ation Of that heavenly bosom reveal the greatest en- chantment? Do not the beams of light from those charming brown eyes pierce me? Those ebony dresses that form such a lovely contrast with the dag zling whieness Of your throat, whose are they but yours? If there was any thing so i'll, should know It. Does it lie in the movement Of your head which I have not yet seen--or in tEe delightful smile of your divine mouth?''
 II assure you that I am frightful. should horrify you if I uncovered my face.''
 That is Impossible; the charm of your iily-white brow, exquisitely mod eled cheeks, entrancing nose-''
 Here she interrupted him with burst of laughter
 ''You laugh; does your nose chance to be Roman?"
 "Or Carthaginian? don't know. Il will not engage to say.''
 I accept the consequences of the fa- | vor I entreat. With that mouth, with | those eyes, that incomparable form, 1 permit you to be hat-nosed or long nosed."
 You are imprudent"
 . No. I am not. Reveal yourself"
 Rash maui
 Will you oblige me to go upon my knees? Will you expose me as the laughing stock o. the company"
 Enough. As you will. You are about to see me with the mask off. Bt. let it not be my hand that shall opeE Pandora's box. Receive through your own the punishment for your foolish 
 ',Perdition take the knot! can't un- tie it. Ah, my knife, that is it. Beau fi-'
 I could not finish the word, such was my surprise, amazement, terror. What a nose! What d nose! Oh. what T nosei I would not have believed that nature was capable of arriving at such a degree Of pleonasm, hyperbole, am The sonnet of Quevedo:
 Erase un hombre a una pariZ
 pegade.''
 (There was man attached to a
 nOSe.) would be poor and colorIess to paint it. This was no human nose; it was a beet root, a corner stone, an Egyptian I,.- I IE it