The Monmouth inquirer., 1922-07-20
sIa AND LITTLE NosEs.

nIo AND LITTLE NoeEe.
Msu. Ndf<h wharten's acidssaous
sDothsgm cuts deeply into modern
vanity. she said this was q day Of
little noses. Intending TO imply thereby
that It was day of little men and
little dseAs. 1t 10 very hard on an
age which boasts its aggressive quail
ties and claims to be filed with the
biggest things done since creation
What would Mrs. Wharton have the
men Of her time dor Wear beaks like
the AHdfgsna toucan. and build va
cuum canals to the moon, perhaps
But does q nose really signdfy any
thanE7 0ns hears OF the predatory
nose, and reads that 1t has hook
lire an eagles beak ad ends in a 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
tiaring of nostril-a very prOmontory
Of power Then there is the frivtlous
nose, wfth its concave bridge and tilt
ed tip: the bulbous nose; the long,
thin. seythe-ltke nose; the bdllhook
moss and the organ OF degeneracy, .
nose shaped like a miniature trumpet.
Are these really significant in them
selves. or do we read significance tIi-
to them. from the suggestions they
enkindls within our imagination?
II wilr require no more than q su-
porfcaal study to convince Mrs.
Wharton and all the worahdpers Of
big noses that the shape and size of
the nose are racial characteristics.
rather than individual. II It were
not 80. we would have right to ex-
poet the men with the biggest noses
30 accomplish the greatest deeds, to
evolve the profoundsst thoughta. to
conceive and execute the finest art.
&Gany great men have owned great
moses, but It will be found In general
that 1t was because they came Of
races which ran to the big-nosed type.
1t h true that Caesar. Dante. and
Wellington were men magndhcen<iy
equipped with nasal features, but the
Roman, Italian and Angfo-SAUon peO-
PIE have . prediction for large noses.
On the other hand JenghiE Khan Was
probably as great = soldier as Caeser.
Confuxius greater philosopher than
MAchiavelli. and Attila as much Of a
6wagrsrfng fighter as any English-
man. There is NO reason to suppose
that either Of these tremendcus fig
urss ~ the worlds history was poe-
sssss6 AZ ddstinctively larger noses
than the average Of his countxyrnen,
And elaAil nnsss are essentially char
a0eesistic Of the Menecl and Turauian
peapaax
INT what constitutes a large nese?
The tasm as commonly used general
N~Esnega mona b form than actual
hu4& Il Il customary TO speak Of the
highrbridked nose as large and OF the
fat nose as small IF &his 10 to be
ths meaning accepted by the holatOrs
Of the great. aristocratic npse." then
We mag iook In vain to ind figures
bear4HG this index OF power among
Teutons. GcandinRvians. Russinas,
Creeks, Chinese and other races
among whom that interesting feature
sf the face Is Inclined to curve inward
xathrs than outward. But the old
NoRsenaan was as predatory, for all
his diahad nose. as was ever the
hu1np-bpaked Roman or q chteftaan
Of TIA Sioux. Ekobeloff. with his lit
tie button Of a nose. and Bismarck.
with one scarcely more prominent,
wsre IS powerful figures as Gladstone.
whose great nose jutted out from be-
tween his eyes like an impregnable
cape between two giistening bays
So that It will not do to judge Of
men BY their noses. There is a brow
above that feature that counts more
than Il. and on each side very vim
dow Of the soul. 1t is out Of these
that the real man looks.
Pest.