Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1887 — The Science of Noses. [ARTICLE]

The Science of Noses.

The nose, wo all know, forms a prominent feature in everybody’s career, but it has been left to M. Sophus Schack, a Danish disciple of Lavater, to find out that it is an infallible index to human character. He tells us in a book just published that his discovery is the result of a long and patient study of this facial organ among people of all nations. According to his experience, the moral and t hysieal nature of a person can be gathered • from the formation of his nose. A well-de-veloped nose, he says, denotes strength and ceurage; a little turn-up nose indicates cunning and artfulness; a delicate, straight nose, taste and refinement; a curved nose, judgment and egotism; and a thick, misshapen nose, dullness and want of tact, nut this is not all. “The nose,” proceeds our physiognomist, “discloses to the intelligent observer the faculties possessed by the owner. It also indicates the intensity of his intellectual activity and the delioacy of his moral sentiments. Finally the nose, which belongs both to the mobile and immobile parts of our visage, reflects faithfully the fugitive movements of our inclinations.” If all this be true, it is evident that people who desire to disguise their character or dissemble their passions must in future beware of their noses, or, rather, they must wear false ones.— Pall Mall Gazette.