The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-23
BLUE Eyes INCREASE.
An Authentic Statement That VIII Pique
Many Maidens.

Many Maidens.
Buffalo News.
Blue eyes so bright and tender have ever
received the poets passioned praise since
the time when ancient Chaucer built the
original lofty rhyme, and until to-day, when
the frantic lover, signing like furnace, in
dites bslting sonnet 10 the object Of his
passion. Men adore blue eyes in women
ard women recipTocate in kind. Some one
sighs for the old fashioned girl OF fifty yesrs
ago, and complains that sweet eighteen OF To-
day is rot comparable with the Venus who
then walked the earth with sparkling orbs OF
LIQUID blue.
TIE pfesentgeneratiop, whose only knowl-
edge of the female beauty OF half a century
ego is derived from 6agUerreotypes OF their
gIaBdmoihers or such old-tirne fashion plates
as have not yet fulfilled their destiny in
being used 10 wrap smsll packages OF tobsc.
CO, soap aud candles in country stores. will
be pleased TO learn that instead OF decrease
there is sn increase in the number Of blue
eyes since the days of George ".
Speaking on this subject Yesterday, an
eminent Professor who has devoted great
deal OF attention to the eyes gave this as his
opinion: Without having any data at
hand" he said, Il would cay that, consider
II g the causes to which blue eyes sre attrib-
uiable, there wOuld be more OF that color
now than there were fifty wears ego"
lie explained the matter scientifically
thus: Il think 20 because the color OF the
eye depends Oh the quantity OF the pigment
deposited in the iris, and the amount of light
the eye Is called upon TO absorb. Fifty yes-s
SGD people were more exposed to the direct
rays OF the Gun, and lived less In retire onsnt
than they Go now. and therefore the eve was
called upon TO absorb moro light. II would
be fair inference that peop.e who were
much exposed to free, open sunlight, and
living in g state inclining to a state of nature
z fro~-
city, wearing glasses and remaining great
deal in their bomes"
'Do you think the color of eyes attribn-
table IN any degree 10 climatic iniuspces?"
Yes. the co'or is subject in a grsa. degree
to climatic influences and the methods Of
living OF the people. 20 illustrate what
mesn by the eye Absorbing lieht vou will
observe that in walking along in the snow
the eye Is called uron 10 absorb a great deal
OF light, but IN looking on piece OF dark
velvet 1t Is the reverse. The velvet does the
absorption. Blue eyes are Increasing IN
number, believe, not decreasing.
There is another standpoint from which
the study OF eyes is interesting. and that il
In relation tt the ind c. IN they su ely give
OF persons character. The poet has called
the eyes the windows OF the soul, aud un-
ouestionably they are the most eloquent lea
lures OF The human countenRnce, rejecting
ali OR qualities and desires our impulses,
our PASSIONS, and often our very thoughts.
"By the eyes We form our first impressions
OF a PERSONS character. and II is very seldom
that We change that first feeling, he il good
or bad, without The strongest cause. Every
trait and quality finds expression in these
mirrors. Blue eyes betray two antithstic
characters. Large and bright they denote
quick perception and great susceptibility OF
external influences. In the gentler more
often than in the Steiner sex they are found
cospIed with finely arched eyebrows, in
which case they indicate in men a refined