Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1915 — Poetry and Noses. [ARTICLE]

Poetry and Noses.

I have read that no poem was ever written to a nose. Can you, offhand, recall a single rapturous or even admixing description of one? I search my memory in vain, but produce Instead one instance that has always interested me by neglect. You re-' call that little poem of Brownings, A Face, the brief and charming description of a girl’s profile against a background of gold. The “matchless mold" of softly parted Ups, the neck “three finger* might surround,” and the “fruit-

shaped perfect chin” all receive their due of praise; the nose, a seeming necessity in any profile, is not even mentioned. It may be as well; each reader supplies in the lovely face the line that suits him best The poet may have feared that by its mere mention he would produce the effect too often given by the nose in real Use —a heaviness that mars an otherwise charming face. —The Atlantic. If it is anything he has paid to hear, the average man believes it is true.