The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-09-04
Windows Of the Soul. !"

Human eyes, and particularly the eyes
Of fine women and great men, are al
ways Interesting things, and so we quote
here what Professor Seeley, in his life
aud Times Of Stein,n takes from one OF
Arndrs works respecting the eyes of
two great men. "Be il here said, once
for al" observes Arndt, "in answer to
those who always come out with the
finest white skin and the bluest silver
clear eyes as the genuine mark Of noble
ness and genius in a man, that the two
greatest Germans Of the nineteenth cen
tury, Goethe and Stein, observed the
world from brown eyes; though there
was this difference, that the Goethean
eye, broad and open, looked down for
the most part with such radiance upon
all around aud upon people, while STEMS
eye, smaller and keener, CLEANED rather
than shOne, and at times very fiercely
flashed. Usually It expressed friendli-
ness and honesty, but when he was in
serious or positively angry mood, il was
capable OF flashing in a formidable
manner" The most misehievOus ewes
Ia women are brown, according To ex-
perts. They are all powerful, are the
eyes Of women, whatever their color
blue, or black, or brown, or hazel or
chestnut, or gray, or green. Becky
Sharp had green eyes, and they did i'm
mense execution. Nelvety violet eyes
are singularly beautiful, but It's said
they DO not wear well and wash badly.
Eyes should wash we'll, considering how
much they have to do with tears. Yel-
low eyes are not more common than
yellow diamonds, and they rank among
eyes about as high as yellow diamonds
rank among diamonds. They are more
numerous among men than among
women, and nOvelists give them to Pc
culiar descriptions Of their villains-the
lazy, dreamy sort Of villains, who, how
ever, can fire up on occasion aud become
the veriest devils Of destruction. They
are often given to the snake, but We
have seen eyes in snakes that were any
thing but yellow, aud snaky eyes in
human heads that were Of the deepest
black. White eyes are
DEAD EYES,
So far as expression goes, and remind
the observer Of fish-at the market; but
in moments of passion they become
quite as expressive as eyes ever should
be. Commonly they convey the ex-
preston OF blindness as well as of moral
feebleness. Touching the color of the
eyes, il should be borne in mind that
the same word has different meanings
at different periods. One Of the heav-
lest, aud therefore one of the most aceu-
rate, Of the Shakespearean commenta-
tOrs-fOr It is tue rule with the many
that no brilliant man can be accurate
aud no accurate man brilliant-assures
US that "what we now call blue eyes
were in Shakespeare's time called gray,
and were considered as eminently beau
tiful" Heavenly blue we assume to be
meant the real azure or true blue, upon
which the celestials are supposed to
have the strongest claim, as that has
upon them the strongest claim in re-
turn. Cooper, In one Of his novels, when
describing two young women, observes:
Zone peculiar charm was common to
both, aud il is charm, though the
strongest instance 1 ever saw Of it in
my life was in Italy, that may be said
10 belong almost exclusively TO the
Anglo-Saxon race l mean that express
sion Of the countenance which so emf
nently betOkens
FEMININE PURITY
Aud feminine tenderness united-the
look Nnlch artists love to impart 10 the
faces OF angels. Each Of the girls had
much OF this, and suppose il Was prin-
clpaiy owing TO their heavenly blue
eyes' i uouot u any woman with black
OIL nta
brilliancy Of their beauty. ever 6ossi-s-i
this charm in the higher degree - M
lower animals often have most ov,,-lr Ie
slve eyes, that are intensely beautif,,i
being OF beauty that endures. perbar,5
because they do not suffer nom fbs
moral wear aud tear Of the passion. ma
the appetites; and yet those aninais
suffer much from the prosecutions and
cruelties OF men. Fear aud fierceness
belong to such eyes in perfection; fear
because the lives Of the feebler animals
are passed in almost constant terror
and fierceness, because the bolder ami.
mails are ever on guard against attack
or are searching for food. What can bs
more pathetic than the appealing looE
Of a timid spaniel that is ill-used, o.
that is
LONGING FOR ITS LOST LORD?
What fiercer than the eyes Of a fightinI
animal at bay? The theory is becoming
common that, in itself, the eye is moth
ing, and that what We call its expression