The Hawaiian gazette., 1884-04-16
9aluaiialt 6azette.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL ls. 1854.
Eyes.
THE bright black eve, the melting blue,
can not choose between the two;
But thai Is dearest all the while.

Which wears Tor n the sweetest smile.
There is much truth in these last two lines,
The eyes we love best are the best eyes, the
most beautiful to MS.
But all ewes arc not alike, and all have not
the same meaning Black and brown eyes say
different things from the blue or gray eyes
Each has i story Of its own, and way of
telling it.
There are eyes which glow with passion.
eyes that anguish with love, eyes which spar
kle with mirth, eyes that fash with indigna-
ten.
Some are calm and serene, others troubled
and restless. Some penetrate right through
you, some entreat, some command, and some
are meaningless, and have a vacant stare till
the mind stirs within, and illumines them.
The first thing which generally strikes us in
looking at the eve is its size. Large eyes have
always been admired, especially in women, and
are considered essential TO the highest types Of
beauty.
We read of "large spirited eyes" and "eyes
loving, large" of little, sparkling, beady eyes
to which the terms loving and spirited could
never be applied.
The Arabs express their ideas of woman's
beauty, by saying she has the eye of the ga
zelIe, and the eye is ever the theme of their
song. Homer repeats the epithet, the COX
eyed Queen" whenever he alludes to Juno,
and indeed beautiful eyes are not confined to
the human race, but give likewise expression
TO the head of the horse, the dog, and many of
the nobler animals.
The small eye Of the elephant is an example
however, that the size of this organ is not al
ways the token Of more or less intelligence,
though the pig is proverbially alluded to, and
his tiny orbs brought into comparison with
certain small human eyes in which greed is
the CONSPICUOUS expression of the mean mind
within.
The most beautiful eyes have a long rather
than wide opening. Eyelids which are
widely expanded so as TO give round form
TO the eye, like those of the cat and owl, indi-
! cate ability to see much, with little light and
receive readily mental impressions from sur
rounding objects; on the contrary, eyelids
which more closely cover over the eye, denote
less facility of impression, but clearer insight
more definite ideas, and greater steadiness ant
permaDencs Of action.
| Round-eyed people see much and live mucl
in the senses, but think less Narrow-eyeC
persons see less but think more, and feel more
intensely. Persons with prominent eyes arr
always found to have great command of Ian
guage, and are eloquent speakers and fiuen
| writers. But it may be observed that as
projecting eye mos readily receives impress
sions from all surrounding objects, so it indi
Gates quick and universal observation, but
lack of close scrutiny and perception Of indi
vidual things.
Such eyes are everything in general bu
nothing in particular.
Deeply-seated eyes on the contrary receiv
more definite, accurate and deeper impressions
but are less readily impressed, and less dis
cursive in their views.
There has been a great deal said and writ
ten on the subject of the various colored eyes
Arranging all the various colored eyes i
two grand classes, light and dark, we woul
say that the dark indicate PolreT, and the ligi
islioacy.
Dark eyes are tropical, and as an America
physiognomist has observed: "They may /
sluggish, the forces they betoken may often /
latent, but they are there, and may be Gale
into action. Their fires may sleep. but the
are like slumbering volcanoes. Such eye
generally accompany a dark complexion wit
much strength of character, powerful br
not a subtle intellect, or strong passion"
Light eyes, on the other hand, belong mai
urally to temperate regions, and they are ten
; perate eyes. They may glow with love an
| Etuldl MAlluAlls buL AhtN utNNl bhlh Win
consuming fire like the tOrrid black eye
The accompanying complexion is general
fair, and the hair light; and persons hayiI
are mostly amiable in their dispositions, 7,
fined in their tastes, highly susceptible of in
provement, and are mentally active and vei
satile.
The light eyed races have attained a high
degree of civilization than the dark-eyed race
When the complexion and han are dark, al
the ey es light, there is generally combinatic
of strength with delicacy.
Black eyes are of four kinds. First, Il
small, brilliant, hard black eyes, which loo
like bead, and which one might crack like
cherry stone; secondly the glowing, caverno,
black eyes, Kidding smouldering fires; third
the soft, swimming, sleepy black eye, ar
fourthly, the large, well-set and fnely-formt
black eye, Solemn as the hush of midnigl
still as the mountain lake, yet full of though
intellect, passion and feeling, which can rise
storm till the quiet surface CLOVIS again;
eye that has no need of words, that new
smiles, but knows the warmth of tears; an e.
that goes straight to the heart with sing
glance and never more leaves it, an eye til
{ does not entrance like the blue, but draws "
steadily and surely on, and touches chords
your heart which have been untouched b
fore, aud can never awake for lesser pow
again."
The first may be the eye OF a vain beau
and belle; the second may be found in ma
an inmate Of Bedam; the third languishes
the barem of the Turk, and the fourth is
rare, it is hardly ever met whit is We
beautiful, and also the most dangerous of a
Button says that "there are no black cyl
but those supposed to be black are only "
low-brown or deep orange; they apper to
black, he af6rms, because the yellow-bro'
shade is SO contrasted with the white of {
eye that it appears black"
Brown eyes are often COMPOUNDED with haz
but though hazel eyes are brownish they d
serve 10 form a separate Glass;
Thy brown eyes nave a look like birds
Flying straightway TO the light"