Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1870-07-01

to the grey.eyed gentry. We do not
mean the honest. stupid eyes that look
like cloudcd marble, and are totally guilt
less Of any particular expression. but
those dreamy. speculative orbs that seem
to be looking through you at something
beyond, as If you were mere trans
parence. They are talented, but not ex-
actly suitable for everyday use. There
is no knowing in what direction they may
break out. They are liable to be erratic
geniuscs. and get up grand schemes for
perpetual motions. and reforming the
whole civilized globe. They become
editors, perhaps. and stalk about the
house, musing darkly on leading articles
and sensational paragraphs, and wake
their sleepy wives at night with night"
mare soliloquics on the subject of ''copy."
Or they turn authors ut the shortest
notice, and lead their wretched partners
dismal life,-or arc transformed into
rabid philanthropists who collect subscrip-
tions for the Fejee islanders, and ignore
the triaing claims of their family at home,
to say nothing of the butcher and baker
and grocer.
Thus grey-eyed mems wives are apt TO
become down. hearted. listless, and misan-
thropic. They go about with slippers
that have gradually got down at the heel,
and dresses torn without being mended.
They seldom put on fresh collars in the
morning,-"what is the use?"-and ex-
pect misfortune just as they expect new
moon. once in so often. Can any one
find it in his or her heart TO blame them
for it? Only they should not have cast
their fate into the same boat with these
dreamy optics that have led them into the
Slough of Despond.
But do not be afraid of brown eyes.
We have the firmest faith in those kind.
merry eyes that see when your check is
pale and your step languid,-that are
never weary Of discerning thousand
little methods of easing woman's
necessarily hard lot. The brown-eyed
man is rarely unreasonable, never mutters
under his breath when strings break and
buttons come off in his hand, nor sneaks
out ut the back door when the little folks
begin to cry! His laugh cheers you like
draught Of spring-watcr; he IS better
than forty old women to nurse you when
YOU are sick. He knows, without asking.
where the eamphor-bottle is kept, and
how much sugar to put in the Cruel, and
how to shut out the yellow sunbeam that
picrces your brain like dagger OF ine.
lie never knocks the baby's head against
the mantel when he undertakes to hold
it, and knows how TO walk across the
floor without overturning every object in
the room. He notices his wifc's hair and
ribbons; he likes to hear her play on the
piano Just as well as he did twenty years
ago, and never forgetS TO put his slippers
neatly away when he has done with
them.
When brown-eyed man lives and dies
an old bachelor, somebody loses n
splendid husband.
To be sure, there are exceptions 10 all
these cases. We hare known 4 pair OF
melted brown eyes take the kitchen tongs
to his wife and we have heard of blue
eyed men becoming Presidents Of United
States. Grey-eyed men are sometimes
ignorant of the sublime art OF writing;
and black-cyed husbands do occasionally
become hcnpicked. But these are excep-
tions. General rules are safest to follow
when woman is making up her mind
whom she will marry.