Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-02-05


other charms, and perfectly able TO "lelo
them with telling discretion. the average
American woman seems utterly uncoh-
scious of the marvellous power OF the nu-
man eve. She can say as many Pretty
things az her fairer sisters OF the German
tic and her duskier sisters OF the Latin
races; she can smirk. smile, nod, 90
everything else that attracts and fascinates
except to use ner eyes. With these.
too frequently, she can only stare. VI
English women nearly the same thing can
generally be said.
The women of England and America
pose and study effects before their mirrors
quite as much as those of other countries.
they know, as well as any, how to make
capital out of pretty foot, neck and arms
but when it comes to killing with a glance
they only succeed in failing.
In answer to the poet who calls the eve
"the window of the SOUL" Kate Field dry
lv observes that lit is turly too
bad to dump the soul into
the rest of the garrett rubbish. !"
though her joke does not entirely destroy
the figure. Since Homer's day poets of
all grades have touched, more or less
DEITY, upon that which is possible to the
eve, from Ben Jonson. who sang. Drink
to me only with thine eyes," to the equal
ly enthusiastic hymnologist who ex-
claimed, Il will guide thee with mine
eye." Woman's "glowing orbs' have
inspired many an Engishman and Amer
lean rhymster, causing them to pour forth
rapturous song; yet. save when she winks
at some favored cavalier, the English or
American divinity seldom exacts any SER
vice of the eyes except the qualification
of her curiosity. The children of both of
these countries are keenly alive to the in
exhaustible resources of the human eye,
and 1t is difficult 70 understand why they
abandon the exercise of the optic power
as they mature.
Princess Louise, Lady Kildare and Ell
len Terry are notable exceptions to this
classification, and they manage to look
quite as much as they say to those whom
they meet socially Mary Anderson's
chief power. so far as facial expression
is concerned, is in her eyes. Off of the
stage she is plain and ordinary, except
when animated. Get glimpse at her
eyes when she is speaking. and one is
ready to swear that she is the most radi-
ohAIy DCdutl4uh VOudu III tilC Noliu'
French women, to whom all coy arts
are known. as we'll as the right time to
employ them, are keenly alive to the fact
that the eye is a tremendous engine. Hen
rietta Marechal, the inseparable friend
and companion of the great De Melville,
whom she recently married while on his
death-bed, could move and sway one man
or hundred men at the same time, with
her magnetic glapces. So brilliant and
expressive were the eyes of Madam Ro-
land that the brutal headsman, who rev.
elled in the blood OF even his most lnno-
cent victims, could scarcely screw his
courage up sufficiently to sever her fai
neck. and actually begged her forgiveness,
before letting the fatal blade descend.
Of all French women probably Sarah
Bernhard has the most powerful and at the
same time the most incomprehensible eyes
With them she can express everything
from the hurting of silent anathemas at
Madam Columbia to request for brandy.
The change from one emotion to its ex-
act opposite. as from tenderness to fury,
she accomplishes with the quickness of
lightning, and her whole eye-lids, lashes
and all-dilates and recedes. the same AS
the pupil of a cats eye No two men can
be found who will agree perfectly as to
the the exact size and color of Sarah's re-
markable orbs; they vary constantly, like
the colors OF a rainbow, and never appear
twice alike, even to the same person. 1t
is said that two friends once laid wager
rs to the SIZE of Sarah's luminares. One
pronounced them large and gazelle-like,
almost elephantine; and the other said
that they were minute and piercing. like
the eyes OF cobra or basilisk, The friend
to whom the stakes were handed informed
Sarah of the wager. and when the two
young gentlemen were ushered into her
presence to decide the good natured dis
pute. there was nothing in her expression
to justify the standpoint that either of them
had taken, and so they divided the stake
money, shook hands, and declared that
Sarah had the most enigmatic eyes in
Europe.-N Y. Star.