Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-04
COLOR OF THE EYES.
Sfgnifcatfon of Character, Disposition
 and Temperament.

and Temperament.
 From the San Francisco Argonaut.1
 The colors most common to the eyes are
 brown, gray, blue, hazel, and black, or
 what we call black, for those eyes which
 we call black will generally be found to
 be of 6 deep yellowish-brown when looked st
 very narrowly; it is the distance only which
 makes them appear black, because the deep
 yellow-brown color is in 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 almost 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 eyelashes; but though beauti- full, they are not indicative of @ good dispo- sition.
 Clear light blue eyes, with calm stead fastness in their glance, are indicative of cheerfulness of disposition, of a serene tenn per, and constant nature. These eyes are peculiar to the northern nations; one meets them among the Swedes, and also sometimes among the Scotch. The blue eyes we see among the rare blondes of the south-that is, | in Italy and Spain-have among them eyes I in which are. e.some greenish tints; and such eyes, though often called light blue, have ! none of the qualities of serenity and constan- cy which belong to the light blue eyes of the l north. Neither must the pleasant eyes with the honest glance be confounded with another sort of eye of pale blue, almost steel colored hue, which has a continually sitting sort of motion both of the eyelids and the pupils of the eyes. People with such eyes as these are to be avoided, as they are indicative of a deceitful and selfish nature Very dark blue eyes, with something of the tint of the violet, show great power of af- lection and purity of mind, but not much
 intellectually. Blue eyes are most signif-
 cant of tenderness and of a certain yielding
 ness of purpose than either brown, black, or gray eyes. Blue eyed people are not incon-
 stant, like those of the hazel and yellow eyes,
 but they yield from affection.
 Gray eyes, of somewhat greenish gray
 with orange as well as blue in them, and
 which are of ever-varying tints, like the sea,
 are those which denote most intellectually.
 They are especially indicative of the impul- sive, impressionab1e temperament-a mixture of the sanguine and the billious-which pro- duces the poetic and artistic natures. In England-where there are more varieties of tints in the eyes than in any other country the poets have almost always gray eyes. A biographer of Byron speaks of his ''beautiful we are told, gray eyes; Coleridge, eyes of 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 russet brown, show an affectionate disposition; the darker the brown-that is the more they verge to that deepest of
 brown which in eyes we are in the habit of calling black--the more ardent and passionate is the power of affection. The brown eyes which do not appear black-that is, which are not dark enough to appear so-are the eyes of sweet, gentle and unselfish natures, fl,O5 >f 15-~l14 or yellow eyes-"golden eyes," as they are called by a lady novelist, and which are very little more to be trusted than the green eyes.
 Green eyes, although their praises often sung in Spanish ballads, show deceit and coquetry. We sometimes eyes which are combination of yellow, orange and blue, the latter color generally appearing in streaks over the whole surface of the iris, while the orange and yellow are set in flakes of un- equal size around and at some little distance from the pupil of the eye. Eyes of this riety of tints show intellect, or at any rate certain originality of character. No com monplace nature has this sort of eye. Nasty, irrfAble persons have frequently eyes of brownish tint inclined to greenish hue. Although the purely green eye indicates deceit and coquetry, the propensity to green ish tints in the eyes is a sign of wisdom and courage. Very choleric persons, if they have blue eyes, have also certain tints of green in them. and when under the influence of anger a sudden red light appears 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 shadow 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, the contrast of color. 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 lymphatic temperament, and they indicate listiess and feeble disposition, incapable of enterprise, and 8 cold and in dolently selfish nature.
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