Ruby. Claret. Copper.

[9] Lavater considers the nose as the fulcrum of the brain; and
describes it as a piece of Gothic architecture. "It is in the
nose that the arch of the forehead properly rests, the weight of
which, but for this, would mercilessly crush the cheeks and the
mouth." He enters into the philosophy of noses with diverting
enthusiasm, and finally concludes, "Non cuique datum est habere
nasum:"--it is not every one's good fortune to have a nose! A
sharp nose has been considered the visible mark of a shrew.

Now, what does all this come to? _Cui bono?_ A great deal for surgery; let
us examine what may be done;--we know that noses may be supplied,--may not,
therefore, a small one be enlarged, and a large one made small? We have
seen a person with a _bunch_ of _noses_, but can only, on the authority of
Shakspeare, quote one "who had a thousand."

For a great length of time nothing was admired in the world but Roman
noses,--and then not a word was heard about them, till William III. brought
them again into fashion.

People occasionally possess the power of voluntary action with the muscles
of the nose, and can move it horizontally, or to the right and left,--draw
it up or protrude it,--so as to make it take any position they please.
Painters have been provokingly deceived by this stratagem, and have in vain
attempted the portraits of such persons, who were able at every instant to
produce a new physiognomy.

One of the qualifications for the Ugly Club was a nose eminently
miscalculated, whether as to length or breadth,--the thickest skin had