WOMEN'S NOSES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3806, 26 September 1883, Page 4

WOMEN'S NOSES.

AVhen a woman possesses a Roman nose, according to an America writer, she must be extremely careful as to her style of head gear and hair dressing. Neither of those must belong to the frivolous or coquettish order. Neither must be inadequately small. If the wearer of the Roman nose fall into this error, that useful organ will look larger than ever. Our aristocracy are given to large ones. Tho air of palaces seems to bo favorable to tho development of that salient feature, and, yvero there to bo no mesalliances, the high-bred type of nose would soon roach a very terrific size indeed. I always look on the bright side of things, and when I hear of a man of gentle birth marryiugabannaid, or of a modern Cophetua and a beggar maid, I always bethink me of the probable modification of the lordly nosos of the next general ion. Witli a Greek nosea woman may- yvcaralmost anything-. She will be sure to have taste to divine what is suitable and becoming, and grace enough to put it on straight—au accomplishment more rare than might be thousfht. But, alas ! Greek noses arc not exactly in fashion. Our national taste has proved degenerate, and our fickle fancy has turned to the ue.v retrousse, yvhich has even found its way into the poets. "Tiptiltcd like a flower," says our laureate of such a nose. ll' the cogitative nose appear in full development on a yvoman's face, she yvill probably be strong-minded and utterly careless of chill'ons, if not of her own looks. Of the Jcyvish nose the same observations are true as with regard to tho Roman nose ; that is, when the nose is large. Occasionally —though not very frequently this nose is very beautifully formed, and not too large for our modern notions of feminine loveliness. It may then be treated as I have suggested iv remarking on the Greek variety. The turn-up nose may bo adorable or it may bo a trial. Much depends upon its complexion ; much on tho precise degree of upyvard curve. The curve should be similar to those at the corners of the lips, and when it is, yvhat a piquant harmony is the result. Oh, lucky girl with such a nose, and you have a creature as dangerous as Helen to the peace of man. It must not be a shaky, fleshy, flabby thing ; a curt decision and a spice of dainty self-assertion must characterise it. It yvas such an ideal nose that inspired the following sentiments: " We confess a. lurking penchant, a sort of .sneaking ail'ection yvhich wo cannot resist, for the celestial nose iv a yvoman."

And what style of architecture arc yve to construct our dress upon '< asks the owner of such noses. Anything coquettish and airy, frivolous and quaint. Severe simplicity consorts not with the snub. A little insolence of ornament suits it—floatingribbons; a rampant aigrette; a head "running over with curls;" a flounce turned back and forth ; a hat twisted north and south, east and yvesfc. Such as these would be incongruous yvith the Greek, an insult to the Roman, an injury to the Jewish, and a flat contradiction to the cogitative. With the " tiptiltcd" thoy make a happy harmony.