Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-05

SOMETHING ABOUT EYES.-An Amer
lean poet, discoursing of the eyes Of
rival lady-loves, exclaims:
s'The bright black eyes, the melting blue,
cannot choose betwixt the two!''
The choice has puzzled many man
before and since. Black eyes are the
more brilliant blue eyes the more
winning. Black eyes flash; blue eyes
languish. Black eyes are passionate ;
blue eyes are tender. Back eyes are
most abundant in France, Italy and
Spain blue eyes in England and Ger
many. Except some of the early Nor
man kings, and except also Charles II
"a great sinner and voluptuary), all
the sovereigns Of England had blue
eyes. But the fact is not much to the
credit of the "azure," everything con-
sidered. The Saxon race, it is worth
nothing, are blue-eyed race; SO that
blue eye is no sign Of weakness. It
is said that all the Presidents Of the
United States, except Gen. Harrison,
had blue eyes. Among the great men
Of the world the blue eyes appear to
have been predominant. Socrates,
Shakespeare, Locke, Bacon, Milton,
Goethe, Franklin, and Napoleon all had
blue eyes. So, also, according to ira
dition had the Savior. Yet in the en-
tire world of mankind black eyes are
greatly-in the majority. So the blue
eyes must "look out'' for themselves.
WOMEN ARE ALWAYS WoMEN.-Hu-l
man nature is the same in all ages.
In turning over some old books we
came on some extracts from an old
French Knights (Geoffry Landry de
la Tour advice to his daughter, writ
ten in 1871, and translated into En-
glish some time after. The old Knight
says "The wives say to their husbands
every day. Sir, such wife and such
hath such goodly array, that seemeth
her we'll, and I pray you I may have
Of the same.' And if her husband
says, wife if such have such array,
such that are wiser than they have it
not , she will say, No force it is, for
they cannot wear it, and if have it,
yc shall see how we'll it will become me,
for l can wear it, And thus with her
words her husband must need ordain
her that which she desireth, or he shall
never have peace with her for they
will find so many reasons that they
will not be put off," Precisely similar
conversations take place now daily and
probably also frequently occurred in
the days of Noah's family, "and the
old time before them.''
The WIFE.-1t is astonishing to see
how we'll man can live on small in-
come, who has handy and industri-
GUS wife. Some live and make a far
better appearance on six or eight dol
lars week, than others on fifteen or
eighteen dollars. The man does his
part well, but his wife is good for no.
thing. She will even upbraid her hus
band for not living in as good style as
her neighbor while the fault is entirely
her own. His neighbor has a neat,
capable and Industrious wife, and that
makes the difference. His wife, on the
other hand, is whirlpool into which
a great many silver cups might be
thrown, and the appearance of the wa
ter remain unchanged. No Nicholas,
the diver, is there to restore the wasted
treasure. 1t is only an insult for such
a woman to talk to her husband about
love and devotion.
ma Hope is the last thing that dies;
and, though it be exceedingly deceit
full, yet it is of this good use to us,
that while we are travelling through
this life, it conducts us through an
easier and more pleasant path to our
journeys end. !!