Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-19
BLUE EYES INCREASE.
An Authentic Statement that viii Pique
MANY Mafdens.

An Authentic Statement that viii Pique
Many Maidens.
Blue eyes so bright and tender have
ever received the poets passioned praise
since the time when ancient CHANGER
built the original lofty rhyme, and I'M
til to-day, when the frantic lover, sigh
ing like a furnace, indites a hating
sonnet to the object of his passion.
Men adore blue eyes in women and
women reciprocate in kind Someone
signs for the old-fashioned girl of fifty
years ago and complains that sweet
eighteen of to-day is not comparable
with the Venus who then walked the
earth with sparkling orbs of liquid blue.
The present generation, whose only
knowledge of the female beauty of half
a century ago is derived from daguer-
reotypes of the grandmothers or such
old-time fashion plates as have not yet
fulfilled their destiny in being used to
wrap small packages of tobacco, soap,
and candles in country stores, will be
pleased to learn that, instead of de-
crease, there is an increase in the
number of blue eyes since the days of
George ".
Speaking on the subject yesterday,
an eminent professor who has devoted
great deal of attention to the ewes
gave this as his opinion: without
having any data at hand, he said, IL
would say that, considering the causes
to which blue eyes are attributable.
there would be more of that color now
than there were fifty years ago"
He explained the matter scientifically
thus:
II think so because the color of the
eye depends on the quantity of the
pigment deposited in the iris and the
amount Of light the eye is called upon
to absorb. Fifty years ago people
were more exposed to the direct rays of
the sun. and lived less in retirement
than they do now, and therefore the
eye was called upon to absorb more
light. 1t would be fair inference that
people who were much exposed to free,
open sunlight, and living in state in
clining to state of nature, would have
darker eyes than those living in city,
wearing glasses and remaining a great
deal in their homes"
"Do you think the color of eyes at
tributable in any degree to climatic in
fluences?"
Eyes, the color is subject in great
degree to climatic influence and the
methods OF living of the people. To
illustrate what | mean about the eye
absorbing light, you will observe that
walking along in the snow the eve is
called upon to absorb great deal of
light, but in looking on q dark piece of
velvet it 10 the reverse The velvet
does the absorption. Blue eyes are in
creasing in number, / believe, not de-
cIcasing.
There is another standpoint from
which the study of eyes is interesting,
and that is in relation to the indication
they surely give OF a persons char
acter. The poet has called the ewes
the windows of the soul, and unques-
tionably they are the most eloquent
features of the human countenance, re-
flecting all our qualities and desires,
our impulses, our passions, and often
our very thoughts.
''By the eyes we form our first i'm
pressions of persons character, and
il is very seldom that we change that
first feeling, be it good or bad, without
the strongest cause. Every trait and
quality finds expression in these mir
rors. Blue eyes betray two antithetic
characters. Large and bright they de-
note quick perception and great sus-
ceptibility of external Influences. In
the gentler more often than in the
sterner sex they are found coupled
with fine arched eyebrows, in which
case they indicate in men refined ma
ture and aesthetic tastes, and in women
a lovable disposition, with a predilee-
ton for dress, music, and the fine arts
1t is principle generally recognized BY
physiognomists that beautiful eyes be-
token corresponding beauty OF char
acter, amiability, trustfulness, honor,
and devotion.
''Adorers of blue eyes and light ewes
generally will not be little disappoint-
cd to learn that they signify cunning
and deceitfulness, and that physiogno-
mists advise us to beware Of them. 1t
Is rather startling information, certain
~, in the light of the intelligence that
eyes OF this color are on the increase.
Gray eyes are said to denote intelli-
gence, coupled with studiousness and
great mental capacity, and adorned by
kind feeling. Black eyes are unfath-
enable, and may either imply deceit
and unscrupulousness or noble eleva-
ton of character
Eyes like those of any of the lower
animals, for instance, will be found
where the nature of the person pos
sessing them resembles that of the an
imal in question. But withal, it is still
gratifying to find that blue eyes, al
ways most beautiful, are on the in
crease. "-Bu6atO Neaos.