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Show NOSE TELLS ALL. It Shape Indicate! Your Character The Noses of Fighters. Physiognomists go so far as to assert that the nose is the key to the man's character, the Index to his brain. And so many people great employers among them share the belief that it is almost as lucy for a child to be born with a good nose on its face as with tht proverbial spoon in its mouth. There are noses and noses, even among the good specimens. There Is the artistic nose (literary men and painters have it); the "constructive" nose peculiar to architects and engineers, engi-neers, and not the least important is one labeled by physiognomists "combative "com-bative and organizing." This might also be called the military nose. It belongs to great commanders on sea and land, and is so prominent that it can not be mistaken. Wellington had it to an abnormal degree. In this as in other respects he has never been equaled by any other soldier. Wellington Welling-ton was a great believer in noses. Napoleon Na-poleon also admired a good nose, and was personally well endowed in that particular, but nothing like to the same extent as his vanquisher at Waterloo. Both are said to have chosen their men for important positions posi-tions by the size and shape of their noses. In short, Wellington ana Napoleon, Na-poleon, for professional purposes, practiced physiognomy, which was a crime In the days of Elizabeth, when "all persons fayning . to have knowl- edge of Phyisiognomie or like Fantastical Fan-tastical Imaginaclons". rendered . themselves them-selves liable to all manner of perils. |