The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-09-19

permanence Of action. Round-eyed persons
see much, live much in the senses, but tnink
less. Narrow-eyed persons see less, put tnink
more and feel intensely.
Arranging all the various coiored eyes IN
two grand classes-light and dark-we
would say that the dark indicate power, and
the light delicacy. Dark eyes are tropical;
their fires may sleep, but they are like slum-
bering volcanoes Such eyes generally ac-
accompany dark complexion, great tough
ness Of body, much strength Of character .
powerful but not subtle intellect, and
strong passions. Light eyes, on the other
hand, belong to temperate regions, and they
are temperate They may glow with love
and genial warmth, but they never burn with
consuming flame like the torrid black eyes.
The accompanying complexion is generally
fair, and the hair light Persons thus char
acterized are amiab.e in their disposition, re-
fined in their tastes, highly susceptible OF
improvement, and are mentally active and
versatile. The Gght-eyed races have attain
ed higher degree of civilization than the
dark races. When the complexion is dark
and the eyes light, as is sometimes the
case, there will be combination of strength
and delicacy. Brown and hazel eyes may
| perhaps be considered as occupying the mid
die ground between the dark and the light.
Black eyes are of four kinds: first, the
small, hard black eye which looks like
bead, and which one might crack like
cherry stone; secondly, the glowing, cavern
GUS black-eye, but with smouldering fire;
third, the soft, swimming black eye; and
fourth, the large, well set and finely form
ed black eye, solemn as the hush of
midnight, still as the mountain lake." yet
full of passion, full Of thought and intellect
Brown eyes are often COMPOUNDED with
hazel, but though hazel eyes are brown, they
deserve to form separate class. "The true
brown eyes" have q softness and beauty of
their own. Some are eager, quick to marry;
they generally go with light hair, fresh COM
plexions; their laughing brightness, their
frank chances are as different from the cooler
! and calmer look of the hazel as light from
darkness.
| Hazel eyes, or light brown have charac-
ter of their own. Speaking of hazel-eyed
| girls, Major Noah said: -" A hazel eye never
elopes from her husband, never chats scam
dal prefers his comfort to her own, never
talks too much or too little-always is an in
tellectual, agreeable and lovely creature. The
gray is the sign of shrewdness and TALENT
Great thinkers and captains have it. In wo-
man it indicates a better head than heart
The dark hazel is as noble as it is beautiful.
The blue is amiable, but may be feeble. The
black-take care u! there's thunder and light
ming there"
| Another writer says: Black-eyed women
are apt to be passionate and jealous blue
| eyed, soulful, affcctionate and confding;
gray-eyed, literary, philosophical, resolute
and cold; hazeleyed, hasty in temper and in
constant in feeling"
As the eyebrows are very closely connec-
ted with the eyes in action and expression,
We notice them. Eyebrows may be very
thick or thin, fine or coarse, smooth or
bushy, arched or straight, regular or irregu-
lar; each form and quality has its special
significance in reference to temperament and
character. Thick, strong eyebrows are gen.
orally found in connection with abundant
hair on the head and other parts of the
body, with full development of the motive
temperament When coarse, bushy and If
regular, we may expect coarseness, harshness
and unevenness of character.
Thin, fine, delicate eyebrows, are indica-
tive of a fne-grained organization, and an
active if not predominant mental tempera-
| ment.
Straight eyebrows are masculine elements
of character; arched eyebrows are more COM
mon to women. Low, projecting eyebrows
indicate discernment, and less directly, re-
Election. An eyebrow greatly elevated, on
the contrary indicates less discernment and
| oh nf Tha
ing or frowning of the eyebrow indicates the
exercise of authority, especially when it
takes the form of forbidding.
The forehead-when the lower portion of
the head predominates, we find-perception
in the ascendant, and there is curiosity :;
desire to see u love of travel a taste for
natural sciences the ability to describe. to
learn languages, to teach, and to become
learned in matters of fact
When the middle portion of the forehead
is fullest, there will be memory of events,
power of analysis, criticism, ability to CLASH
fly, reason by analogy, detect defects and ex-
cellencies, and adapt ones self to the various
phases of life.
If the upper portion be largest, there will
be more thoughtfulness and less observation,
more philosophy and less science; more of
the abstract and metaphysical than of the
definite and practical.
If the outer portions of the upper forehead
be most developed, it indicates wit or mirth-
fulness in connection with causality.
The action of the muscular fibres which,
passing down from the middle of the fore
head, are inserted near the root of the nose,
elevates the inner extremities of the brows,
causing, when strong, short horizontal wrin-
kles in the center of the forehood, and indi-
Gates active beneyolence-kindness transla-
ted into deeds. N
A short thick neck indicates abundant vi