The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-06-03
sIo AND LIrTLg g NOSES.


Mrs Edith whartons acidulous
apothegm cuts deeply into modern
vanity. she said this was day Of
little noses, intending to imply thereby
that 1t was a day of little men and
little deeds. 1t is very hard on an
age which boasts It's aggressive quail
ties and claims to be filled with the
biggest things done since creation.
What would Mrs. Wharton have the
men of her time do? Wear beaks like
the Andigena toucan, and bpild va
cuum canals to the moon, perhaps. /,
But does a nose really signify any
thing? One hears Of the predatory
nose. and reads that IL has a hook
like an eagles beak ad ends in tip
that looks as II It were made TO tear
things, There is also the energetic
nose. that is high at the bridge and
broad across. firm at the point and
iaring Of nostril-a very promontory
of power Then there is the frivilous
nose. with It's concave bridge and tilt
ed tip; the bulbous nose; the long,
thin, scythe-like nose;. the billhook
nose and the organ OF degeneracy, a
nose shaped like miniature trumpet.
Are these really significant in them
selves, or do we read Significance III
to them, from the suggestions they
cnkindle within our Imagination?
IL will require no more than a SUI
perfcial study 20 convince Mrs.
wharton and all the worshipers CT
big noses that the shape and size of
the nose are racial characteristics.
rather than individual. II 1t were
not so, we would have right to ex-
pect the men with the biggest noses
TO accomplish the greatest deeds. TO
evolve the profoindest thoughts, 10
conceive and execute the finest art.
Many great men have owned great
noses. but 1t will he found in general
that 1t vas because they came Of
races which ran to the big-nosS type.
II is true that Caesar, Dante. and
Wellington were men magniioently
equipped with nasal features, but the
Roman, Italian and Anglo-Saxon peo-
pie have a prediction for large noses.
On the other hand Jenghiz Khan was
probably as great soldier as Caeser,
Confusius greater philosopher than
Machiavelli, and Attila as much of
staggering fighter as any English
man. There is no reason TO suppose
that either OF these tremendous fg-
ures in the worlds history was pos
sessed of distinctively larger noses
than the average of his countrymen,
and small noses are essentially char
acteristic of the Mongol and Turauian
peoples.
But what constitutes large nose?
The term as commonly used general
ly refers more to form than actual
bulk II is customary to speak OF the
high-bridgcd nose as large and of the
fiat nose as small II this Is to be
the meaning accepted by the idolators
OF the great, aristocratic nose,' then
we may look In vain to find figures
bearing this index Of power among
Teutons, Scandinavians, Russinas,
Greeks, Chinese and other races
among whom that interesting feature
Of the face Is inclined TO curve inward
rather than outward. But the old
Norseman was as predatory, for all
his dished nose. as was ever the
| hump-beaked Roman or a chieftain
OF the Sioux. Skobeloff. with his lit
tie button of a nose, and Bismarck,
with ono scarcely more prominent,
We're as powerful figures as Gladstone.
whose great nose jutted out from be-
tween his eyes like an impregnable
cape between two glstening bays.
So that 1t will not do 10 judge Of
men by their noses. There is brow
above that feature that counts more
than 1t, and on each side a very win
dow. of the soul. 1t is out OF these
that the real man looks Washington