Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-29

with the wilderness, wears a sharpness
not at all exponential of character,
and such another whose blue eye lets
the face fade into insipidity. Yet it
must be confessed that, lovely as the
blue eye is in all OF its variety, now
the deep tint of the sapphire, now the
changing splendor of the aquamarine,
and now lively with beryl-like green
ish hues, it usually pleases the more
the darker it is-that is, the nearer its
effect approaches the effect of the
black eye-and is never seen in its full
beauty except where the brOws and
lashes are so dark as to cast shadow
and depth around it.
The color of the eyebrow, and its
distance from the central line or long
diameter of the orbit, and its shape,
whether straight or arched, are as i'm
portant to the eye as its lashes are. In
all cases a delicately pencilled brow
enhances the attraction of an eye,
arched just sufficiently to make an
agreeable line, without that excessive
lifting which speaks of a questioning,
querulous, worrying and irritable ma
ture, without any shagginess in its
decision, tending slightly downward
on the temple in a line hal always
suggests melancholy and poetry, aud
being Of a shade just a little darker
than the hair of 4 head when that is
not entirely black. With such an
eyebrow, aud with lashes long and
silken, and possibly curling backward
at the tips the. least in the world, an
eye would have to be exceedingly ugly
in itself not to be made beautiful by
its framing.
Assuredly the poet Spenser knew
what he was about when he declared
of Belphebe that,
"A hundred graces on her eyelids sate."
He must have understood the salts
faction to the admiriRg sense given by
the full white waxen lid, a trihe too
heavy ever to be entirely thrown
back, and capable Of yelling the be-
traying glance every now and then
with that reserve Of modesty more be-
witching than the most abandoned
revelation Of beauty ever is. The eye
to which this lid fits often retreats
into insigni6cance, and the eye where
there is one line too much loses all
beauty through prominence. What
makes the eye beautiful asks VIM.
Hunt, the painter. mot the eye
itself, although there are intrinsic
forms which we acknowledge to be
beautiful. 1t is the regard, the soul.
and in part what surrounds the eye
and the liquid look'-a snail has
that" Thus set under a fit brow,
with lovely lids and lashes, it would
seem, after all, to make no particular
difference what the color is. Yet
every one is not of that opinion.
Behold, thou art fair, my love, said
King Solomon; behold, thou art
fair; thou hast doves eyes," and
saying that he has said enough to let
US know that the eyes of his love are
beautiful, although we have never OBJ
served that either lids or lashes had
much to do with a doves eyes. Still
we have been told by scholars that
this phrase of which the singer was so
fond may be translated as we'll by the
words thine eyes are doves" which
makes another picture, and confirms
the fancy that it isl" the regard, the
soul, which gives an eye its power,
and lends more authority to the belief
that the eyes chief charm is its ex-
preston, the spirit which it betrays
and interprets. Probably the poet
would not have waited to learn the
tint Of Ginevra's eyes, in order to
confess their power, when he wrote
I" For thrqpyh thy long dark lashes, low de-
pending,
The soul Of melancholy gcntleness
Gleanslike a serAph from the sky descending,
Above all pain, yet plying all distress,
At once such majesty with sweetness blending
worship more, but cannot love the less =
: PhrenologiSts and the followers o.
Layater insist upon the characteristic,
that the eye betrays, considering every
item OF its construction, as a portal 0
+. The brain, which has a tale to tel
e concerning the owner, and which de
0 notes, according to its lines Of ~fullnes
Y or depression, the presence or absenc.
t Of such organs as indicate form, order
: language. calculation, color, and othe
traits Of similar nature.
But be the eyes Of what color the
d may, and indicative of whatsoeve
IA nature, they are still the very beaco
lie lights of the c%ountenance. And al
though one may have fine eyes and W
,. be comparatively plain, one cannC
is have ugly eyes and be beautiful. See
d ing this, we are often led to regrC
n that people pay 10 little heed to tn
ly care OF the eyes, endeayor so little [
7, preserve their powers, and have /
lg little hesitation about calling on theI
is for more service than they can rende
Of reading by twilight, sometimes
&c moonlight, putting OF the evil DAYS
it speetadas through some mistake
re vanity, sleeping or working vii
q strong light directly before them i
Il. stead Of at one side or behind, tryil
20 them with smoke, with thick veil
he with constant use, and so makil
10 ready presently one would imagine,
in sit in darkness.
i'd Nothing is moreiajuriOus to a bea
id titul eye than short sight. The u
10 fortunate victim, taught by instinct
ne laFEgW the aperture and bring Il
is focus nesEer, is always wrinkling Il
5 a two eyelids, aud neither splendOr n
~ softness nor lovely shape avsils und
rs, sgch a habit the head, besides,
always bsing thrust forward to aid b
lot sight, and q line which, if it is not
on froyp resembles one, GQWes upon 3
ow Forehead between the eyes. and mo
wv the white, smooth surface that shou
be there, to the destruction of ii
ealm beauty which it ought to ha,
ia This near s~igbtedpess is a defect, /,
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