The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-01-14
LOOK AT YOUR NOSE.
Too Many Catholic Young Men Have
Doll Faces.
tCatholic Citizen, Milwaukee. }


tCathoIic citizen, Milwaukee.)
Among the iaity, we undoubtedly
have a number of powerful Catholic
/ men. But It is not a large number, and
some persons are now asking the why
: OF this. The following is from The
! Catholic Columbian:
! Who can answer the question. asked
: III the young mems department last
week, why there are so few Catholics
at the front business in the profess
sions and in politics?"
Why, the reason is as plain as the
/ nose on your face; in fact, it is ques-
tion of noses. ~ at any rate. OF physi-
ognomy. LoJK at the face of the
Man Who Succeeds.
Note the broad forehead the high
bridged nose, the firm mouth and the
strong chin. There is bone in that
face
Nov lock At a group of our best
young men. tYou may see photo
graph Of such in almost any Catholic
Eape"o What Find of faces have they?
Pretty, Adoas-faces. Not all. oh, no!
but too many cf them. alas!
Note the soft mouth. the beauteous
mustache, the cute little nose, and the
doil-baby chin. Coed fellows, no doubt,
who can help, all right, to get UP
church entertainments and benefit
Euchres.
But are they the men who will be-
come leaders If the nation? Nay. will
they even become stalwart followers of
any leader? Never.
They live soft lives, they have soft
parents. they go to soft schools, they
are always hunting for a scft job-a
political snap! This is why they do
not<come to he front in politics. There
Is no surer way never TO rise to nation
al political height than to begin. early
in life, looking for local political jobs.
aud too many of our Catholic young
men today, are hunting for just such
jobs.
Physiognomy.
Hut [ am not saying it is their fault,
dear, good fellows. No, it is the fault
of their physiognomy, and their ply
siognomy is the fault of their environ
ment.
Take a rugged atnlete,-put his arm
in sling. Keep warm mush poltice
on 1t. What will happen? That
mighty arm, those muscles of steel,
VIII become woefully weakened and
softened down.
Take your growing boy; put him far
away from the ruggedness and activity |
of natural life. Keep him in the soft |
of city life. What will !
happen? The fiber of his character |
will break down and woefully weaken, !
as surely as will the athletes muscle, |
under the warm mush poltice.
Take thousand men pre-eminently
great,-in any sphere-and you may !
find Tor you may not) that one of them
is a product I city life. But you will
lnquestionably find that the other 999
are the product of life outside the city
The biography of one half of those will
-ell you that 'hey are the direct product
Of country life, and the biography of
The other half will show that they were
children Of tountry-raise parents.
Their ,physio gnomy will tell you that |
hey had a ough-and-tumble bOyhood.
hat they, or at any rate, their parents.
lived out in the open, on hillside or
mountain tor, on prairie or sea shore.
Their rugged faces tell of rugged lives
lr fnrding dangerous streams. of traN-
,ling lonely .'oads, coralling wild cattle,
splitting rails swimming many miles
IN a wager and Of other stirring siren
ICsties.
When you see a face which lacks rug
in its physical make up. you
nay be sure that right there also is
| lack Of ruggedness in the mental
make up.
-.-.- Country Boys.
He who battles with the vicssitudes
# wind and weather is thereby fitted 10
,attle successfully with the storms and
stress of actual life. Repeatedly we
ind this lesson sparentage,- that 1t
s the hardy pioneer, or mountaineer,
cavalier, commoneer. or even the bold
,uccaneer, whose son has that nose
hat points o success, 1t is not the
on OF the soft city clerk.
zoe 1iI
Americas multi-million-
Tres:
There seems some subtle connection
between the ART of getting up at four
Iclock a. m., &c milk COWS in boyhood,
md the art Of amassing a fortune IN
ater life
OF course. this is mere fun. for un-
-hs-e is no subtle connection
these Two arts. The eonnec-
ion s most plain and tangible. Inc
ugeed boynood makes the forceful
manhood. and the forceful manhood
las The physiognomy which forses to
Z The men Of might come from outside
he cities
We. United States Catholics. have,
or four gen cations. lived inside the !
tiles. DO YOU catch the Inference?
md can you see anything mysterious r
a the fact # our having but few men +,
{ might in me United States?
The man from the country COR the
ca. the logging camp or the forD Il
he man whose face has strength ana ,
hose nose las character.
The man from the city Is the reno"
18th the sugar and dough counteHaiIce
nd the nondescript nose.
Oh! YES, my deal sir; if you are go
,g to probe this question of physloG-
omy.-a question of noses!