The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-06-12
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Mrs Faith whartoa's acidulou-
aDothesm cuts deeply into modern
vanity She said this was day Of
little noses. intending to imply thereby
that it was day Of little men and
little deeds. It is very hard on an
age which boasts its aggressive qaali-
ties and claims to be filed 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 build va
cuum canals to the moon, perhaps.
But does a nose really signify any
thing? One hears of the predatory
nose, and reads that It has a hook
like an eagles beak ad ends in a tip
that looks as If 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
fiaring Of nostril--a very promontory
of power Then there is the frivilous
nose, with its concave bridge and tilt
ed tip; the Dubious 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 liz
to them, from the suggestions they
enkindle within our imagination?
1t viii require no more than su-
perfcial study to convince Mrs.
Wharton and all the worshipers Of
big noses that the shape and size Of
the nose are racial characteristics,
rather than individual. II it were
not so, we would have q right to ex-
pect the men with the biggest noses
10 accomplish the greatest deeds, to
evolve the profoundest thoughts, to
conceive and execute the finest art.
Many great men have owned great
noses, but it win be found in general
that it was because they came OF
races which ran to the big-nosed type.
1t is true that Caesar, Dante, and
Wellington were men magnificently
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 a soldier as Caeser,
Confusius greater philosopher than
Machiavelli, and Attila as much OF a
staggering fighter as any English
man. There is no reason to suppose
that either of these tremendous fig
ures in the worlds history was pos
sessed of distinctively larger noses
than the average of his countryneI,
and small noses are essentially char
acteristie of the Mongo1 and TurauiaH
peoples.
But what constitutes a large nose?
The term as commonly used general
ly refers more to form than actual
bulk It is customary to speak of the
high-bridged nose as large and of the
fat nose as small. If this is to be
the meaning accepted by the idolators
Of the great, aristocratic nose,'' then
we may look in vain to find figures
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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 one scarcely more prominent,
were as powerful figures as Gladstone,
whose great nose jutted out from be-
tween his eyes like an impregnable
cape between two glistening bays.
So that it viii not do to Judge of
men by their noses. There is a brow
above that feature that counts more
than it. and on each side a very win
dow of the soul 1t is out of these
that the real man looks.-Washington
Post.