Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-06-09
For the Yorkyille Enquirer.
wOmEN,s EYES.

Eyes ever have been, are, and always will be
objects of great interest to mankind from every
point of view. They are used as murderous
weapons, whom wo look dosgorn. Thoy aro uood
as places of deposite, as when we say "thats all
in my eye" They sometimes acquire sort of
personality when appealed to alone or in conjunc-
ton with the illustrious Elizabeth Martin. They
are convenient marks at which to direct "smash-
ers' when engaged in pugnacious warfare: They
are the members of the body oftenest consigned
by profane sea-faring men, to utter condemnation.
Finally, they are good, very good, to see with
Glass eyes are very smooth and bright and look
very well but they can never look, to compare
with the commonest and homeliest pair of ma
ture's productions. Spectacles and Eyeglasses
and Telescopes and Microscopes are very well
in their way, but what would they be without the
eve as the final cause Of all their usefulness.-
Eyes are like rivers for they have cataracts.-
They are like old handkerchiefs, sometimes full
of tears. They are like house-frames, full of
beams; these beams being of two species: the
one, (not desirable,) occurring when the person
is peculiarly observant Of notes in the occular
organs of others; the other (very good) most Of
ten seen in the bright eyes of beautiful females
All animals have eyes, even oysters, except those
unfortunate fish dwelling in the black waters of
the Mammoth Cave; which fish not being able to
see the dangers of the barbed hook, seize the
bait, which they con smell, without moments
hesitation and thus become the easy prey of un-
principled anglers meanly taking advantage of
their benighted condition; "thus atfording
melancholy proof of the depravity of mankind"
Potatoes have eyes and these vegetables being
the chief if not the entire food of the Irish people,
are the cause of that nations being so extremely
wide awake Persons or chickea-cocks with one
eye are sportively denominated Blinkers, upon
the blind side of whom it is always safest to be-
gin the attack in the event of hostile collision.
When people lose their sight, God pity them =
There is an affiction to which oil other physical
ones are but light. The flowers may dress them
selves in brightest hues; the birds may CLEAN in
the golden sunlight with gaudiest plumage; the
sunbeams may gild the green leaves and burnish
the bright waters and crown the mountain tops
with coronet of glory, but it is all black to
them. All the grandest exhibitions of nature;
oil the most wonderful achievements of science;
all the glorious trophies which Art has raised, are
to them as though they were not; and the remem-
brance of former joys derived from these sources
(the sources Of the most refined pleasures) must
be fraught with pain from the consciousness Of
present and future deprivation. Not eternal de-
privation though; for, thank God, Death must
come! And Death closing the mortal eye opens
wide the spirits view, and the Blind can see such
glorious creations in the land Of Immortality as
never yet have been beheld among earth's fairest
scenes, enchantingly lovely though they may be.
once heard of cure for blindness, which be-
ing simple would recommend for trial. A blind
man once eating very tough beef-stesd had to
pull so hard that he pulled his eyes open. am
happy to state that in gratitude he always after
wards ate beef.steak whenever he could get it
But my preliminary remarks are stretching so far
that they will leave but little room for e1patating
upon the original subject which is
woMEN's EYES.
They express more than mems eyes. Be they
black or blue, or brown or grey, or even green,
most horrible, the latter there is always an ex-
preston about them which shows that they are
truly the windows of the soul. You never saw
woman who could look one thing and mean an
other. They very often speak differently from
what they think, but they never look otherwise
than as their feelings prompt them. The mere
matter of color makes but little difference. OF
course you oftenest find black eyes an indication
of quick, fiery, passionate nature, whose pos
SCISSOR hates or loves fercely; and blue eyes in
dicating softness and pliabity and strong but not