Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-25
The Hnskin Letter 9 ' : q
LADIEs-YOUR EARS, PLEAsE'

yagary Of Undressing will show up
ears in all their terrible immodesty
and at once capable censers will be
Organized to fight the new menac to
the public welfare. II the prophecy
that ears are to be important, fashion
ably speaking, is fulfilled they may
prove almost as good a subject for war
fare as knees have been
Seriously speaking. however, the re-
! turn to popularity of the ear will I'M
doubtedly meet with the approval Of
many people. Women's ears have been
hidden so long that standards of beauty
for the ear have been practically for
gotten. Yet beautiful the ear certainly
is, according to the verdict of artists Of
every age.
Sculptors may perhaps be said to
concern themselves with the ear more
than painters. A study of any collec-
| ton of famous paintings shows COM
narstiyely few in which women's ears
| are clearly depicted. Generally they
are Swallowed and partly or altogether
| hidden by the line of the hair.
In sculpture. on the other hand.
| where q faithful portrayal of anatomy
is intended. and where an ambiguous
| line is impossible, the ears appear in
| more detail. The human ear TO the
| sculptor is an interesting problems
] From the time of the Egyptians and
the Greeks. statues of women have
worn ears partly or entirely revealed.
Beauty Depends Upon Size
Henry X. Bush-Brown. noted sculptor.
tsavs that artists have always considered
| the ear an ornament to the head. It's
beauty. however, is sometimes enhanced
| when it is partially concealed. he ex-
plains. He points out that the Greek
sculptors often obtained a beautiful
| effect by portraying the lower part of
| the ear showing below a graceful hair
line.
THE beauty of the ear" Mr.. Bush
| Brown says. depends somewhat on its
size. 1t should not be too large, nor
yet too small. For symmetry it should
be about the length Of the nose, and
graceful in line and modelling. The ears
should, Of course, be set close to the
head"
Many of US would say off-hand that
the ears are not a particularly dlstin-
| gushing feature. This sculptor says
| that there is probably more variance
in ears than in any other feature. A
seventeenth century scholar of Venice
who attempted TO classify ears found no
less than SO general types. Miss Ellis
has pointed out that this number can
be multiplied by three because of three
| sizes of ears. large. medium and small,
and also again by four, because ears are
long, short. square and round in shape.
This makes 432 general classes Of ear.
Some p~hysioguomists have attempted
to prove that character can be read IN
the ear-that certain proportions. lines.
and angles of an ear indicate certain
qualities in the possessor. This is an
! extension of such popular beliefs as the
one that a long ear signifies long life,
Aged people often do have long ears.
it is true. But close observers have
declared that the ear becomes slightly
enlarged in old age. In other words,
d person has not reached old age be-
cause he has long ears; his ears appear
long because of his age. Aside from
this change. most students of the ear
agree that the ears do not alter after
they attain their full size. 1t Is also
GENERALLY agreed that ears are more use
full as earring holders than as indexes
TO character.