The Hawaiian gazette., 1884-04-16
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"True brown eyes," says a writer, "have a
soitness and beauty peculiarly their own.
Some are eager, quick and merry; they often
60 with light hair, and fresh, fair compilations,
and their laughing brightness, their frank
glances, are as different from the cooler and
calmer look Of the hazel, as light from dark
ness. Others have reddish glow, or rather
an auburn light which gives them peculiar
charm, especially if the hair match, shade for
shade; others of a more decided brown 20 with
black hair and dark complexion, pale or bril-
liant as the case may be; aud others are large
and soft, with a starry light within"
Hazel eyes, or light brown eyes, have
character Of their own, different quite from the
true brown. There are two kinds of hazel
eyes, the dark hazel with blue shade, and
the light hazel, III which green, yellow and
blue all mingle, and predominant according to
light or emotion. Some periodical in speak
ing Of hazel-eyed women, ssSs that ga hazel
eye inspires platonic sentiment, and that
woman with these eyes never talks scandal, is
unsel6sb, never talks too much or too little, is
always agreeable and intellectual, and that
the dark hazel eve is as noble in its significance
as in its beauty"
Gray hazel is the sign of shire wdness and
talent; the blue hazel is amiable but feeble.
Another writer observes that "hazel-eyed
women are quick-tempered and fcke," but
there is no opinion expressed relative to hazel
eyed men.
Gray eyes are of many varieties We will
pass over in silence the sharp, the shrewish,
the spiteful, the cold and the wild gray eve;
every enc has seen them, perhaps too often.
There are some that belong only to the gallows,
there are others of which any honest brute
would be thoroughly ashamed. But then again
there are some beautiful enough to make a
fellow wild, and those are the gray eyes /
mean. There is the dark, sleepy, almond
shaped gray eye, with its long black lashes: it
goes with the rarest face on earth, the beauty
with jet black HAIR, and a complexion neither
dark nor fair.
Then there is the calm, clear, gray eye, the
eye that reasons, when that only feels. 1t
| locks you quietly in the face, 1t views YOU
kindly but dispassionately-pas rarely
lights IT, and love takes the steady fire Of
friendship when he strives 10 enter in. The
owner of that eye is upright, conscientious and
religious; it is perhaps the eye for Joan Of
Arc, Florence Nightingale, but not for the
fairy of a household hearth, she should wear
another guise.
Lastly comes the mischievous gray eve.
with Its softness and its large pupil, which
contracts and dilates with word, a thought.
or a fash of feeling; an eye that laughs, that
has its sunshine, its twilight, its moonbeams,
and its storms; wonderful eye that wins You,
whether you will or not, and holds you even
after it has cast you off. No matter whether
the face be fair OF not; no matter if the fea-
lures are irregular and the complexion vary
ing, the eye holds you captive, and then LAUGHS
at your very chains. Mary Queen Of Scots had
gray eyes, and probably were these witching
eyes
Let the blue eye tell Of love
And the black Of beauty
But the gray scars far above
In the realms of duty
ArLor for the black proclaim
Gentle sympathy for blue.
But the gray may be the SAINT,
And the gray Is ever true.
Sing then OF the blue eyes. love,
Sing Of the hazel eye of beauty
But the gray Is crowned above
Radcnt IN the realm Of duty"
BLUE EYEs.-The poets have praised blue
eyes, more perhaps than any other kind. An
Italian writer says: Eyes with the same
witchery are those Of Psyche which caugh