The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-23
NOSES TO THE FRONT.
Nasology ys. Phrenology. Palmlstry ct


 Nasology ys. Phrenology. Palmlstry ct al
 Handwriting and the lines of hands have mysterious signs for most men:
 but the socalled initiated claim to be able to penetrate the puzzles The lines
 are supposed to have a language of their own, which. when correctly read. reveals the characters and the destiny of men. All told, it is probably well that so few people are able to read that language.
 i The face is also tell-tale and a pro- phet. It is some time now since Lava
 ter gave to the world his many formu- las. To-day one of his disciples, M
 Josey Mayor, adds the latest novelties
 to them, so that he may be called a Layater with all modern improvements. His recent researches add to the glori- fication of the nose. According to him, the disposition is not expressed entire ly by the eyes or by the smile; it is re- vealed by that too often hump-backed and otherwise deformed thing, the ! nose. It is the leading feature which give all necessary information in re- gard to the nature of it's owner. The essential is to be able to interrogate the nose and to understand it's answers. To study noses, to classify them to climb over all their hills and to explore their hollows-that is the function of
 "nasology." The nose Is the road to the profound realities which the cum ming malice of men conceals in the re- cesses of the heart
 A little reflection teaches the most ignorant among us the value of the nose and the solidity of the sciences stand upon more solid foundations. Tn the matter of psychological research,
 where can one find an assistant more powerful than the nasal organ? In eases where all the rest of the face tells lies it alone remains sincere. We | can dye our hair, curl it or cut it; w can trim our boards, wax and twist our mustaches, paint our lips and daub our l checks, but we can't touch our noses. The nose remains always what it is; it has the courage of it's reality; it shows itself in all its nakedness without any dissimulation. We can command our eyes and our mouths, but we can give no orders to our noses. It is incapable of hypocrisy. and its evidence is above
 suspicion. It was the knowledge of tihs fact which brought out the wise saying As plain as the nose on your face" 1 With such a scientific instrument al- ways at hand, the nasologists should be
 able to make great progress. With TO- bust confidence and patient study, they have measured noses, studied their
 shapes, drawn their profiles and left
 their bumps. They have photographed
 noses at all angles, and finally they I have given us precise formulas for the
 qualification of our curiosity.
 l Suppose we have to deal with a
 straight nose, one of the inpeccable
 noses which make us thing of the old Greek statues. We must not be too nasty in our admiration. Let us rather
 bow our heads humbly; for upon that
 nose conquerors have 1lrst mortgage.
 Its slightest movements are orders. If Alexander, Ceasar and Napoleon found-
 ed vast empires 1t was because they 1 all had that kind of nose. l The Roman nose, of which the naso- l logists give us the true lines, also
 knows how to make itself be obeyed; but the obedience is from fear rather
 than from love. They also present us with types of American noses and Eng
 fish noses; but they have not yet come
 to a perfect agreement in regard to the
 precise condition of mind which these Anglo-Saxon types indicate.
 One of the most brilliant essays on
 nasology is the one which classes noses,
 not by origin, but by mentality. The aquiline nose, for example is the sign l of goodness, suitability and weakness.
 By that nose Louis XVI, was lead to ] the direst catastrophes. Let us have
 commiseration for the nose that is very slightly prominent. It is the muzzle of
 a sheep, and belongs to people who are
 easily deceived. Distrust the nose with l the medium part elongated. That
 elongaticn marks the extent of desires
 and the instability capacities. Look |