The Savannah morning news., 1901-08-24
GREAT MEN HAD GREAT NOSES.
strength of Mentality Deduced From
Size of Nasal Organ.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
"As plain as the nose on your face"
says the proverb. Just how plain you
do not realize, perhaps, until you have
seen a man without onel He may lack
an eye, an ear, an arm and pass I'M
noticed. but without a nose-neverl
For that organ is the salient feature
of a face. The fourteen small bones
that, with the mass of cartilage, go to
compose it are nodded into every con-
ceivable form. Look about you to see
if you can discover any two noses alike.
You cannot do it.
Yet they all have something in COM
mon. The Troy Times once said that
they can all sneeze. snarl, snuff, snore,
snort, sneer, sniff, shuttle, Singer and
SWIVEL
The naughty Roman nose subdues, it
compels, it domineers. The retrousse
nose of the spoiled beauty bewitches,
attracts. haunts us. The long, thin,
twitching proboscis of our ancient
schoolma'a am freezes, threatens, treats
of reprimands and switches. The good
old snub comforts, cheers, invites to
mirth. The toper's tells tale of nos
ing in the beer stein; the glutton's
glows from many and fine dinners. The
lawyers is nervous, expressive, scien-
tific, benignant; the schoolboy's inquis-
tive.
In no way does the growth of the hu-
man animal show such a change as in
the development of that one organ.
The babe is born with a bump in the
middle of his soft face. Pretty soon
the bump stretches a bit, but all
through childhood the nose has an up
wa rI
my thinks is has but 'one office. His
aunties asked him what his nose was
for. For mamma to wipe!" was the
innocents reply, founded on experience.
Later 1t is planting ground for
freckles; then ii straightens out, and
at IL or IS almost runs away with
Tommy. 1t is then ahead of the body
in growth, but it begins to take on
some character and decides whether II
is to be aquiline, knobbed or tip
tilted"
All the characteristics of people, all
gradations of society, all peculiarities
of race, does this expressive feature
mark. A morning at the Police Court
will reveal marvels in nose lore. Gould
you possibly associate culture or mo-
rality with those concave, crooked, mis-
shapen objects? What tales they tell
of the lower life! Seldom. indeed, is a
truly fine nose seen in the Submerged
tenth"
Besides this, caste difference, racial
markings are also eloquent. The weak
undeveloped organs of the Bushmen
and EslSimos indicate the rank of the
owners in the worlds progression. Far
more loudly than tongues do the fat
noses of the African and the highly
aqiline ones of the American Indians
proclaim their natures-the first so
sluggish a people, the second spirited
free.
The Chinese fatten the noses OF
their babies because they have a ridi-
culous idea that the nose should be
less important than the eyes. For CEN
turtles they have cultivated that ugly
shape, and so the Chinese nose is real
ly no criterion of their character, for
Intellectually they are superior race.
The German usually owns fleshy,
comfortable looking. self-satisfied arti-
Gle. The Irishman tits his to the skies,
and II is as funny as his wit. The
French are q "nosy" people, too. but
there is a delicacy, piquancy inscrib-
ed thereon that is a quantity of their
mentality.
Broadly speaking the Caucasian nose
is the superior of all others. If one
follow his nose" the Caucasian leads
the world.
Nearly all our great men" have been
remarkable for their noses in some
way. Mohammed, for instance. His
nose was almost a beak-it seemed
to try to reach his chin. Then the n
mortal Ovid was called by the lrrev-
erent MIR. Nosy' or Naso. Napoleon
III suffered the same scott, "Gros3ec"
or Nosy.
The Great Napoleon" had an exquis-
itely chiselled nose himself. and was
wont TO say, Give me a man with
plcnty of nose" Fortune answered
his prayer. although hardly in the
way he wished, for Wellington was
thrown across his path-the owner of
the most prominent nose in Europe.
Richelieu, Wolsey, Bacon. Franklin,
all had large nostrilled noses, betoken-
ing strong power of thought and love
of serious meditation. Our Washing
ton had nobility of purpose and hero
ism plainly stamped on his. Caesars
was much the same type. Gladstone
owned a generous, BROAD minded
nose.
Once a great nose save a great life
and 1t was in this wise: Ludolph of
Austria, he of the big nose. reused the
enmity of many of his knights, and
they decided to slay him. One night a
peasant working near their tents over
heard them say, ITO morrow We'll sur
prise old Big Nose and cut him to
pieces" Presently as the peasant was
on his way to another part of the
camp-he was met by the Emperor
taking an evening walk to inspect his
army. Ludolph asked him what was
going on in his part of camp. The man
innocently answered that there would
be great fun next morning, for they
were going to cut big nose in pieces.
1t is needless to say that there was no
next morning" for the conspirators.
Frederick the Greats nose was so
remarkable that Lavater offered to bet
his reputation that he could tell it
from 10000 others by simply feeling IL.
One would think such a nose would
give him a fellow feeling for other
mems smelling apparatus, but IL SEEM
ed otherwise, for he ordered the nose
of a nobleman cut Off because he re-
sisted enrolment i'm the army.
Frederick wasn't the only ruler who
chose that method of punishment.
Charles III had Lord Coventry deprived
Of his nose for asking impertinent
questions about some actresses. He
should have kept his nose out of IT,"
Rameses ii punished those convicted
of treason i'm this way, and Actisanes
of Egypt treated robbers in the same
manner His unique method of reform
ing dishonest butchers was putting a
hook through their noses. on which to
hang bad meat.
Criminals often part with their noses
as a disguise, and a most effective one
IL Is. too.
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