Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-03-20

of those whose nose is not all it
should be. 1t really isn't so i'm
portant a feature as some persons
suppose. Provided you have other
strong features and traits you can
achieve distinction without dis
| tingulshed nose and provided you
are otherwise beautiful you needn't
stay awake nights worrying over
| your nose.
Thackeray was one of the cele-
| brated Englishmen who got along
with a very inferior looking nose.
1t was broken, so they say, in child
hood but it couldn't have had
much size anyway. The break, in
stead of making it beaked, flat
tened it out where the bridge
| ought to be. There were friends
of Thackerays who used to speak
of this feature as his dear old
nose" And Thackeray himself was
always very charitable in judging
the noses of others. He was not
one of those novelists who always
endowed his heroines with perfect
by turned noses.
The charming Laura Bell, in
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young lady very good to look upon,
but when he comes to her nose in
his description of her he simply
says that he must leave that to
his readers imagination.
Victor Hugo does not seem to
have been one of those who feel
that a perfect nose is essential to
feminine beauty, In "Toilers Of
the Sea" he says of Deruchette
that from her infancy she. had
been remarkable for her beauty.
| Connoisseurs in such matters had
grave doubts about her nose, but
the child, having probably deter
mined to be pretty, had finally sat
| iSfied their requirements. She
grew to girlhood without any seri-
Gus loss of beauty: her nose be-
| came neither too long nor too
short; and when she was grown
! up her critics admitted her to be
charming" From all of which the
reader is left to surmise that De-
ruchette was one of those pretty
women who was pretty in spite of.
| rather than because Of, her nose.
| Plenty of great men have had
/ Indifferent noses. The great Gre
clan philosopher, Socrates, had a
nose that has been remembered
| through all these ages for its in
significance, and it is said of the
nose Of Voltaire, that clever French
savant who had such a wide influ
ence on his contemporaries, that
! at looked as if it turned up at all
creation and was smiling a para
4 dox."
| 1t has been pointed out that the
| Dutch seldom have attractive noses
and you can see for yourself in
looking at the portraits of any OF
the great Dutch masters that the
| subjects of their portraits quite fire.
| quently had noses that were more
interesting than regular. The opin-
ion likewise has prevailed that
| Swedish women had peculiarly ugly
noses, and this was somewhat in
fluenced by the fact that the two
Swedish women with whom Amer
leans were best acquainted were
Jenny Lind and Theodosia Brem-
mer, both of whom had peculiarly
ugly noses.
Many of the most charming OF
French women have had indiffer-
ent noses, for a regular nose is moi
so usual among the French as
among the English or Americans
What is sometimes known as the
| French nose is an odd medley-a
trifle retrousse, almost but not
quite straight, inclining to pretti-
ness but not to beauty. One of the
| most charming French women OF
the eighteenth century. La Gut
mard, had a most Indifferent sort
| OF nose,