BEAUTIFUL NOSES.

Northland Age, Volume VIII, Issue 27, 23 February 1912, Page 2

BEAUTIFUL NOSES.

A weekly newspaper in Paris recently conducted a prize contest for beautiful noses. The judges were men—artists, poetß, sculptors,, and art critics. They awarded the prize to a young woman, Mile. Dumarcy, and their verdict was that she had or has, the most beautiful nose in Paris.

They said her nose was “retrousse" and that is French for “pug” or “snub,” or “tip-tilted,” or whatever you want to call it, all of which goes to show that there is beauty in the pug nose. In the Paris beauty contest it won first prize over Grecian, Roman, and other forms of classic noses.

The perfect classic nose is a rarity nowadays. This is the nose of Venus de Milo—a straight line from brow to tip. Lady Beatrice Pole-Carew, among England’s most beautiful women has one.

The passing of the classic nose, phrenologists insist, iB a sign of deterioration in culture. In these busy, materialistic days the spirit of the age is not one to induce the intellectual and spiritual development that goes with a perfect nose.. The mind that might have been reposeful, beautiful,, literary, and poetic has been, forced into the paths of commerce.

Next to the mouth, the nose, of all the features, is most easily moulded by the trend of the mind at an early age. Therefore it may be taken as an indication of character. The business woman is declared to be developing a new type of nose. If anyone doubts this, just compare the nose of a working woman of to-day with a family portrait of her nonworking grandmother.

The business woman’s nose is not large, hut the nostrils are dilated, showing breadth of thought, ambition, and consciousness of power. The dilation of nostrils enables her to inhale the large supply of air which is necessary to engendering the vigour and energy for her work. Artistically considered it is not always a pretty nose. Phcenologists, who claim to discern differences which a re not apparent to the lay mind, say club-women have two kinds of noses —the oratorical nose and the nose of executive ability. There are as many other kinds of noses as there are characters to be indicated, and there are innumerable subdivisions. But when he has seen them allGrecian, Roman, a nd business noses—man, ultimate judge, hands the blue ribbon to the girl with the "pug.” The Venus nose is considered too coldly perfect nowadays. Other noses may indicate excellent and admirable qualities, hut they are not, pretty.

But the “pug" The owner of the pug is piquant, coquettish, saucy; she 'has a pretty wit and a gift of mimicry. Also she is a clinging vine. And that’s the kind of girl that never lacks admirers, or a husband if she wants one.