Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. the nose.

1886

Chambers’s Journal 3 July, 428: Men of note almost invariably possess decided and prominent leading articles, whilst an insufficient nasal accompaniment not unfrequently denotes inanity [F&H].

2. the vagina.

1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
1896		Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 234: Reste, m. The female pudendum; ‘the leading article’.
1980		Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 185: The anatomical relationship of the bower of bliss and its main channel is indicated in such phrases as […] hoop, leading article, dead end street and house under the hill.