The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-28

only Which makes them appear BLACK, DC
cause the deep yellow brown color is il
such strong contrast to the white of the
eye that it appears black. There are also
eyes of so bright a hazel as to appear al.
most yellow; lastly, there are eyes that are
positively green. Very beautiful, too, are
some Of the eyes of this color when they
are shaded-as is very often the case
with long dark eyeiashes; but, though
beautiful. they are not indicative of a good
disposition.
Clear light blue eyes, with a calm stead
fastness in their glance, are indicative of
cheerfuIness OF disposition, of a serene
temper, and a constant nature. These
eyes are peculiar to the northern nations;
one meets them among the Swedes, and
blue eyes we see among the rare blondes
of the south-that is, in Italy and Spain
have among them eyes in which are some
g%reenish tints; and such eyes, though often
called light blue, have none of the qualities
of serenity and constaney which belong to
the light blue eyes of the north. Neither
must the pleasant light blue eye with the
honest glance be COMPOUNDED with another
sort Of eye of a pale blue, almost steel
colored hue. which has a continually shift
ing sort of motion both of the eyelidse and
the pupils of the eyes. People with such
eyes as these are to avoided, as they are
indicative of a deceitful and selfish nature.
Very dark blue eyes, with something af
the tint Of the violet, show great power of
affection and purity of mind, but not mnch
intellectually. Blue eyes are more signifi-
cant of tenderness and of a certain yield
ingness of purpose than either brown,
black, or gray eyes. Blue-eyed people are
o ~inconstant like those of the hazel and
yellow eyes, but they yield from affec-
ton.
Gray eyes, of a somewhat greenish gray,
with orange as well as blue in them, and
which are of ~eyer-varying tints, like the
sea. are those which denote most intellect
nality. They are especially indicative of
the impulsiye, impressionable tempera-
ment-a mixture of the sanguine and the
bilious-which produces the poetic and
artistic natures. In England-where there
are more varities of tints in eyes than in
any other eountry-tle poets have almost
always gray eyes. A b~iographer of Byron
speaks Of his beautiful changeful gray
eyes Shakespeare also had. We are told.
gray eyes: Coleridge, eyes of a greenish
gray. Among the artists, too. eyes of
this color abound.
Black eyes, or what are considered such.
are indicative of passionate ardor in love,
Brown eyes. when not of the yellowish
tint. but pure russell brown, slow an af-
tectionate disposition: the darker the
brown-that is. the more they verge on
that deepest OF brown which in eyes we
are in the habit of calling black-the more
ardent and passionate is the power of af-
lection. The brown eyes which do not APP
pear blaek-that is, which are not dark
enough to appear so-are the eyes of sweet,
gentle and unselfish natures, without the
Inconsistency OF the light brown or the yell
low eyes-'golden eyes," as they were
called by a lady novelist. and which are
very little more to be trusted than the
green eyes.
Green eyes, although their praises are
often sung in Spanish ballads, show deceit
aud coquetry. We sometimes see eyes
which are a combination of yellow, orange
and blue, the latter color generally appear
the iris. while the orange and yellow are
set in fakes of unequal size around and at
some little distance from the pupil of the
eye. Eyes of this variety of tints show in
~tellect, or at any rate a certain originality
of character. No commonplace nature has
this sort of eye. Hasty, irritable persons
have frequently eyes of a brownish tint
inclined to a greenish hue. Although the
purely green eye indicates deceit and
coquetry. the propensity to greenish tints
in the ewes is the sign of wisdom and
courage. Very cholerie persons, if they
have blue eyes, have also certain tints of
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fiuenee of anger a sudden red light APP
pears in them.
There are eyes which are remarkable
for being of what might be said to be Of no
color. The iris has only some shades OF
blue or pale gray, so feeble as to be almost
white in some parts. and the shades Of
orange which intervene are SO small that
they can scarcely be distinguished from
gray or white, Notwithstanding the con
trast of colors. The black of the pupil is
in these eyes too marked, because the
color of the iris around it is not deep
enough, so that in looking at them we
seem to see only the pupil. These eyes are
expressionless, for their glance is fixed and
dead: they invariably belong to persons of
the Emphatic temperament. and they in
dictate a ~listless and feeble disposition,
incapable of enterprise, and a cold and indo-
lently selfish nature.