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Show j TO MOLD A NOSE. While there are surgical methods of I making over ugly noses into shapely j ones, still there has been discovered a better way of having a good nose. It is trj mold it when the child is young. If parents will take the proper pains they can make their children have almost al-most any kind of noses desired. So. father and mother may soberly discuss whether it would be better for their child to have a handsome nose, or a nose with plenty of character in it The answer depeds upon sex. A woman wo-man would prefer her daughter to have J a pretty nose, every time. Most men j ; would rather have a son have a strong i characteristic feature to mark the cen- j tcr of the face. j Of course, there is no reason why a nose, whether of man or woman, j , should not be handsome and full of j character at the same time. But the j j combination is rare. Indeed, there are j I l'-v handsome noses largely because I People do not take the trouble to mold j them in infancy. I I Moid them? Yes, indeed. It Is often j aid that we cannot make our own fea- I j tures, but this remark does not justly ! pply to noses. And one reason why it does not apply is that we begin life I : with practically no noses at all. Every i one of us starts with eyes and a mouth. and we cannot alter them to any ap- I , preeiable extent, but in babyhood the f nasal organ is never anything more I than a mere rudiment. Being soft dur- j ir.jr growth, it is malleable, and its shape may be controlled and modified s to a considerable extent. This is a matter of special import- ; r"e where girls are concerned. There is many a young woman whose beauty t lias been seriously marred by thought- I lpss Hud indiscriminate twaekings in I infancy. I ' 'c ""i a ining penecuy seii-evi- dent, when one comes to think of it? j !it 1? a nose made of? Mainly car- I tilage otherwise called gristle. This j gristle during childhood is a soft tissue, j I eMpjiy modified in shape. So easily, in S ''"".. that a lime may yet arrive when regular molds will be applied to chil- l d!n's faces and fastened on at night J 'o make their noses assume such forms I ;s are doomed most desirable. When this comes about people may ! he able to take their choice whether I ineir children shall have noses of Gre- j '"an or Roman type. It is safe to say j I 'nat for pirls the Grecian pattern will ) in most instances be preferred. But, "f course, the actual size of the organ 'annot be altered, and In IndivXal I ir,p tip-tilted style which, after! ! s widely t.dmired and deemed de- I Hdedly "ehie" may prove the best at-i at-i tamable, for ak cf more material. ne begins life, as already slated, jr 'Ui practically no nose at all. The j ri' vc lopment of the organ, especially in J Pins, should be watched and controlled J-nin the start. Even the bone, des- l tinl to form lne bridge, is soft in the ' f if v, Flapfs of lts growth. A gentle I l''n'h!ng, applied from time to time I v" wUh r,orf!istence, will help to pre- , Fnt tnp nose from spreading too I tw' ' 5f 1here be a tendency to a j ist to one side, it may be corrected i I pressing the feature for a minute r so half a dozen times a day In the "Iosite direction. ; o violence, of course. Gentle pres-fd pres-fd rUh th" nr"?e" is a" that is need-'i need-'i f-iD,'y int?Higont mother ought to be J-y VrW lu1IIizf, the i3?a with satisfacto-moldT" satisfacto-moldT" i Jt is a matter simply of is v i" s!rnv 3ogrecp-a feature that itl m a plastic condition, and the shape of which can be modified during the process of its growth. There is no question of the fact that, barring only the mouth, the nose is the most important feature of the face as an indicator of character. Also, it is the most striking racial feature. ' Take for example the typical Hebrew nose. It is not merely distinctive, but it means something. Is it not plainly expressive ex-pressive of qauilities that push their possessor ahead in the world? Great conquerors have usually possessed pos-sessed big noses. Glance over a series of portraits of men who have made a big mark in the world, in any line of endeavor, and you will find that their noses are of more than average size and full of character. The mummy of the mighty Egyptian Pharaoh Ram-eses, Ram-eses, taken from his tomb and unwrapped, un-wrapped, not long ago, is thirty-five centuries old, but his hawk-like beak proclaims to this day the formidable quality of his personality. Yes. a nose means something. The rule doubtless has its exceptions, but in general it is well to distrust a man whose n6se is shapeless and non-committal. Sj many men and women prefer to have their noses altered to gain the advantage of appearance. A man with a very crooked Roman nose that has caused it to become a joke among his acquaintances, may have it straightened. In this case it may be necessary to have an incision made and some of the bone removed. Or if a man's nose is very fiat and then runs out Into an ugly point, it may be thickened around the bridge and thus made more symmetrical. A woman, on the other hand, may have tired of her Roman nose, however gracetul it may be naturally, and pre-j pre-j fer an even slant from the bridge to the tip. This, too, can be done. But all such operations involve some pain, risk and disfigurement for a a time, so it is by all means better to have the nose molded right in childhood child-hood wherever possible. X-rays taken of the side of the face show in an interesting way just how far the bone extends and where the cartilage begins. In babyhood this bone has not formed at all, but is simply soft, rubber-like cartilage and that is why the nose is so easily molded. Nature has provided us with eyes for seeing, ears for hearing and a mouth for eating and talking. It is equally obvious that the nose is meant to smell with. But, oddly enough, there are very few people who understand how-it how-it is that they smell. What is It that does the smelling? The olfactory nerves? Yes, certainly; but where In the brain do these nerves originate? And what does smelling signify, anyway? any-way? To sti?t with, it should be understood under-stood that behind the nose there is a gr?at cavity which has a bony floor an-I a bony roof. The cavity is lined with a !ay.?r of tissue, covered by mucous mu-cous membiane the same sort of tissue tis-sue and membrane that lines the mouth. Just above Its "roof is the so-called so-called "olfictorjr bulb," which Is, properly prop-erly speaking, a lobe of the brain a part of the brain set aside, as one might say, to attend to the business of smelling. The roof of the cavity in question is pe.-forated with a number of holes, through which the nerves of smell extend ex-tend downward from the "olfactory bulb" into the upper part of the cavity. cavi-ty. These are what do the' smelling for us. A current oif air, drawn in by the breath through the nostrils, brings with it minute particles of some substance sub-stance that irritates the nerves abovi-mentioned, abovi-mentioned, and an impression is thereby there-by conveyed to the brain. Evidently different substances produce different kinds of irritation, else all smells would be alike. But this is a matter respecting respect-ing which science is as yet somewhat in Ibe dark. On the walls of the great nasal cavity, cav-ity, on each side, are three curiously twisted bones, called the "turbinates," which .ire clothed with spongy tissues. This tissue, because of its ponginess, easily swells when what we call a "cold" congests it, and, if the swelling amounts to much It shuts off the lower part of the cavity from the upper part, where the reives of smell are. Thus, under such conditions, though we may still breathe through the nostrils, the Inspired air does not reach . these nerves, and for the time being we cannot can-not smell anything. According to common belief in such matters, one of the most unpleasant of physical afflictions is a red nose. Per- n-ips tne worst part or it is that the victim of this sort of trouble is aimost invariably deemed guilty, as proved by prima facie evidence, of the drinking habit. If he is not a frequenter of saloons sa-loons people suppose that he drinks in private which is worse yet. It is scarcely, possible, indeed, for the red-nosed red-nosed man to escape this accusation, which is liable to prevent him from getting a job, to damage-most seriously his social reputation and otherwise to interfere with his comfort and prosperity pros-perity in life. Yet the Idea has no proper justification justifica-tion In fact. The red-nosed man (thcugh there, are exceptions) is rarely a drinker. He is obliged to fight his inevitable reputation, and on that account ac-count is more apt than not to be a total abstainer. His trouble Is due to a local enlargement of the blood vessels, ves-sels, caused In many instances by frost bite. There are other causes, however In most instancas the mischief seems to be incura.ble. One of the most widely known of American multi-millionaires has a nose that resembles a raw tomato. toma-to. It is safe to say that he would give half of his enormous fortune to exchange ex-change this feature for your nose or mine, but though the skill of the best physicians in the wcrld is at his command, com-mand, nothing can be done for him. A new method for treatment of red noses, however, has recently been dis covered. It is said to produce wonder- I ful results. A bunch of small and very I sharp needles of platinum, forty in I number, is used in such a manner as to subject the skin to a verythorough pricking. Preliminary, of course, the skin Is disinfected, and a solution of a chemical substance called "chlorethyl" ( is applied as a local anaesthetic. Pull , bleeding is obtained, the idea being to get rid of the congestion and stimulate 4 the cuticule to healthy vascular action. J From six to eight sittings are required , to restore the normal color. The latest improvement on this process consists in passing a galvanic current of elec- '4 triclty through the needles as they are , employed. - In looking down your throat with the 4 help of a hand mirror, you have often seen the little tongue-like extremity h of the soft palate, called by anato- 4 mists the "uvula," which hangs down in the far back of the mouth. If you could see behind it you would find that , n its immediate rear was a passage leading from the back of the mouth upward into the nasal cavity already described. On the rear wall of this passage, just above the "uvula," there often occurs, in children, a peculiai fungus-like growth, which chokes it up and Interferes with, or in bad cases entirely stops, breathing through the nose. The growth in question is what physicians phy-sicians call "adenoids" a trouble about which a good deal has been said of late. A careful look out for cases of it is kept incidentally to the medical inspection in-spection of schools. It is liable to interfere in-terfere with the mental development of children, gives them a peculiar development devel-opment of children, gives them a pecu liar expression, and sometimes makes them semi-idiotic. Yet the remedy is simple. The growth may frequently be removed with the nail of a finger thrust back into the mouth, but the surgical instrument ordinarily employed em-ployed for the purpose is shaped like a miniature hoe. While it is true that the nose is the organ of smell, thus function is only Incidental. More important, it is the orifice themselves behind the mucous lining of the enclosed space. Certain substances produce upon these nerves agreeable effects, and we say that they "smell good." Certain other substances produce unpleasant effects, and we describe de-scribe their characteristic effluvia as "stenches." In the latter class notoriously noto-riously are included various compounds com-pounds of sulphur, such as the sul-phureted sul-phureted hydrogen of a bag egg. But there are smells vastly worse than these those of selenium compounds com-pounds for example. It is related that Berzellus, the discovered of selenium, tried on one occasion the experiment of permitting a bubble of pure hydrogen selenide gas to enter his nostril, or days afterwards he was not able tc smell strong ammonia, his olfaltory nerves being temporarily paralyzed. Worse yet worst of all, indeed, it is said are compounds of tellurium. Selenium Se-lenium smell like putrid horseradish, J but nothing has ever been found bad enough to compare with tellurium. II happened once upon a time that a physician, phy-sician, having tried in vain to persuade a fashionable lady patient to take a much-needed rest, gave her, as a last resort, a tellurium pill. It was just one pill, but its effect upon her breath was so awful that she was unable to appear in society for a month. The object of the prescription was gained, but it is painful to think of the consequences conse-quences to that doctor if the victim had suspected his responsibility for the mischief. Nature intends that we shall breathe through our noses, and an immense amount of michief is caused by the habit, adopted by too many people, of breathing through the mouth. Nature wishes, on this account, to keep the passage always entirely clear and open. Hence the sneeze, the object ob-ject of which is to get rid of any obstruction ob-struction in the breathoing passage. Anything that strongly irritates the nerve ends in the living of the nose is liable to Droduee one of these snasms. which begins with a sudden in-take of breath, as a preparation for the immediate imme-diate closing of all passages by which air may be expelled from the lungs. Then, following a violent contraction of the diaphragm and other muscles, the nose and throat are opened, and an extremely vigorous expulsion of air winds up the performance. That is what a sneeze is. The next time you are overtaken by one, notice how the mechanism of it works. It is rather interesting. Not lone aeo the sneeze ererm. as it might be called, was discovered by an American scientist. Dr. Durand, who is director of the Hygienic Institute at Hamburg. To speak with literalness, it was not a microbe that he found, but a poison, which is the cause of hay fever. It appears that this poison is contained con-tained in the pollen of various grains and grasses, as well as in that of certain cer-tain othe" plants. |