Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-07-29
BIue Eyes and GRAY.

From the Sss York Coaasaszeizi Advertiser
4 newspaps. finds fauit with Ar.
Stockton for speaking q LIS hsroins
ia s.Tsse Late Nrs. NBsl, as blaseTed
on one page and gray eyed on another.
Bot, Il this vas an inadyevtatlee. shich
we may doubt. the author ean cite tbs
most llassrious presidents 10 MS de-
fence. The great authority Of Shakes
2eagr. for example, supports him. Tue
drama 81 describes the eyes Of NesaHt
Ers. a. gray and then IS b.ue; CON-
tneatsrg usson whieia Malone wrote
What We nos eail blue eyes 9ere 10
gaakesUears fisns called gray eyes
and zers considered kseagsltsl. Use
wlsere Ia Shakespeare Ne and Julia u
ssTile T1o Gsalttensesa oi Verona,
gwen eyes ssas gay as glass; sra
Olivia, e. II ws.fth NSZfat. Nhsa nlAk-
ioz out q schedule q Der beauty IN
serts a. one item, -sS0 gray eyes with
IDS Oh them
Byron. wglo loved the ere sE,d stud
ed Il. favored gray eyes. II they have
son /" IS s safe ard happy medium
this tint 20 Mary Queen os Scots.
Bag Byron trips SC bsday - our auth
orof to-day, form oKecase he speaks
Of Minerva as 'stae blsas eyed Eaaia
o. heayes, and elsenbere as sgod2ess
Dtoo aiss 70 look tbroDgh optics
black or bine
one reason, perhaps why the poets
ard rcmaneegs are little shy Of the
gray eye i beesuse i approaches per
ils5sIslF rear the gueen. Yet NOT that
green s the literary fashion that OBJ
secsion does not have its accustomed
force. We shah noi enter On de-
sense 81 tlse green eye. tsst It's popular
itY Re contemporary tsesao8 = wei
kaowa. and the fashion, be g
good or bad, has = respect
able line Of literary pseeede8ts.
IIDnzEesioy FEIstiEes nS use n
ssT-iae Stanish gtodent" by = foot
note. which explains that s'tbe green
eye i Basac5 esteemed n some parts
oi spain juliet aarse tells beg tllst
Romeo Is nas1gbt ia comparison with
his rival Paris. oi whom she ssys.
AZ ezgls. nzsAaa.
Hath got 90 .Tsea, - qgies. 80 t&sE az ere
Cllaueer. also. gives Egsstrisss IA
the .KniZSae's TASe, eyes Of a lemon
or cstr0n hue. But IS rule, Ia spite
of these ags6 osEsE Instances that
saigigt be cited, tie gzeez1 eye Il not
admired. Most people rs. agree vito
Burns Il soorB 81 the wife Of NLias
VASE.
ssae s&d az e. sEss hzd bat are
l. . > 3 y.
II space permitted Gs TO 70 INTO tEsss
subisca more ia detail ne uszht sgsos
that Ezszgish ariters have generally IS
ISOLATED tie blue o. gray eyes Sitb 3
mild ard truthful nature. But ws
may Be allowed 20 doubt Z the blondes
are as gentle ard the buTDetts are
as terocioas So tbsY are painted. 10
An interview which appeared recas4say
IN q Western r<asfss Esey, s sheriff aEc
had had dealings NTH Hsost o. the
'.bzd nseD" of. the plains. said that
these outlaws were almost uniformly
bloaGes with llZh. blue o. gray eyes
And Byron notes, 20 return 20 iltsca~
tgue, that the cruel and lioentiols
CatheElBe, q Russia, had very blue
eyes. Evidently the heavenly" hue
q soue blue eyes IS simply . coinc2-
deues.
But IN reality there are very tew blue
eyes that o3tl&st childhood The
"babY blue Is soon lost ard the eyes
become gray or green. until possibly
they again assume a psalzliar glory O.
heavenly radiance ia the eyes Of some
one particular person Of the opposite
sex