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PROPER FORM AND CARE OF THE NOSE.

The discussion whether a Grecian or straight, or a Roman or aquiline nose, or any other particular variety, is the most becoming, is idle, and does not interest us. The important point is that the organ be symmetrical, and in harmony with the other features.

The national names we have just mentioned show how strongly this member characterizes tribes and families of our race. We all know the thick, prominent, curved, Jewish nose, and do not admire it very much. No doubt, however, Solomon did, and thought that the more of it the better, for we find him, in his "Song of Songs," enumerating in the catalogue of the beauties of his love, that "thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon, which looketh toward Damascus," which, only in an extremely figurative sense indeed, would be accepted as a compliment by one of our American fair ones.