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Show I LOOK AT YOUR NOSE. Too Many Catholic Young Men Have - . . Doll Faces, (Catholic Citizen, Milwaukee.) Among the laity, we undoubtedly have a number of powerful Catholic j men.. Hut it is not a large number, and . some persons are now asking the why ! of this. The following is from The j Catholic Columbian: I "Who can answer the question, asked : in the young men's department last week, why the're ere so few Catholics , at the front n business in the profea-j profea-j t-i:ns and in volities?" i Why, the leasoh Is as plain as the nose on your race; in fact, it is a question ques-tion of nose. -r at any rate, cf physiognomy. physi-ognomy. Lo . at the face of the . . . Man Who Succeeds. Note the Troad forehead, the high- bridged nose, the firm mouth and the I strong chin. There is bone in that face. Now lo:k at a group of our "best youn'g men. ' (You may see a photo- ,' graph cf Puh in almrs't any Catholic paper.) What rind of faces have they? Pretty, Arion-s-faees. Not all. Oh, no! but too many rf them, alas! Note the soft mouth, the beauteous mustache, the. cute little nose, and the I doll-baby chin. Good fellows, no doubt, j who can help, all right, to get up ! church entertainments and benefit-Eu.-hres. But are they the men who will become be-come leaders -,f the nation? Nay. will they even become stalwart followers of any leader? Never. They live 30ft lives, they have soft parents, they o to soft schools, they are always hunting for a s:ft job a political snap! This is why they do not-'come to '.hi front in politics. There Is no surer say never to rise to national nation-al political height than to begin, early in life, looking for local political jobs, ami too many of our Catholic young men today, are hunting for just such jos. ' Physiognomy. Hut I am not saying it Is their fault, dear, good fellows. No, it is the fault of their physiognomy, and their physiognomy phy-siognomy is the fault of their environment. environ-ment. Take a rugged r.tnlcte, put his arm in a sling. Keep a warm mush poltice on it. What will happen? That mighty arm, those muscles of steel, will become woefully weakened and softened down. Take your growing boy; put him far away from the ruggedness and activity of natural life. Keep him' in the soft environment of city life. What will happen? The fiber of his character will break down and woefully weaken, as surely as will the athlete's muscle, under the warm mush poltice. Take a thousand men pre-eminently great, in any sphere and you may find for you may not) that one of them is a product -f city life. But you will unquestionably find that the other 999 arc the product of life outside the city.. The biography of one half of those will tell you that 'hey are the direct product of. country life, and the biography of the other half will show that they were children cf country-raised parents. I Their .physiognomy will tell you that I they had a rough-and-tumble boyhood, that they, or at any rate, their parents, lived out in the open, on hillside or mountain to, on prairie or sea shore. Their rugged faces tell of rugged lives or fording ianerous streams, of trav eling lonely .-oads. coralllng wild came, splitting rails, swimming 'many miles on a wager, ind of other stirring stren-uofities. stren-uofities. When you a face which lacks ruggedness rug-gedness in its' physical make up. you may be sure that light there also is a lack cf ruggedness in the mental j make up. Country Boys. , He who battles with the vicissitudes j of wind and weather is thereby fitted to j battle succes-sCuliy with the storms and stress of actual life. Repeatedly we find this lesson of .parentage, that it is the hardy pioneer, or mountaineer, cavalier, commoneer. or even the held buccaneer, whose son has that nose that points 'o success! It is not the son of .the soft city clerk. An article in a recent magazine says, concerning America's muiti-million-alres: "There ee ns some subtle connection between the art of getting up at four o'clock a. m., in milk cows in boyhood, iand the art of amassing a fortune in later life." Of course, '.his is mere fun. for undoubtedly un-doubtedly -he -e is no subtle connection between these iwo. arts. The connection connec-tion in most r'ain and tangible. The rugged V.oy "mod makes the forceful manhood, and the- forceful inanho'd has the physiognomy which forges to the front ! .. The men of .night come frcm outsuie the eities. . ,. , . We United " States Catholics. hae, for four genvations. Hvd inside the cities. Do you catch the inference. i:d can von s.ee anything mysterious in the fael :f our having but few men of might in :ae United States? j The man from the country (or .he ! pea, the logging camp or the fort) 1- the man whose face has strength and 1 -tvhose nose "ias character. The man from the city is the fellow with the sugar and dough countenance and the nondescript nose. Oh! yes. my deal siv if yoe so-ins so-ins to probe tins question of phjsicg-nomy,-a question . ofinosesDER - n I |