The Monitor., 1889-08-02
EYES OF ALL KINDS.

works of nature. The standard of beauty
in the eye, beyond certain effects, is largely
arbitrary, 1t depends good deal upon
the individual fancy.
T. has always struck me that the color
of the eye has much to do with the moral
character Of the person. Perhaps that is
an awkward way of expressing the idea.
| Perha ps it would be better to say that the
| degree of ones character is somewhat re-
| fected in the color and expression of the
eye. Why is this SO? Is there physical
| or psychical reason for it? Does nature,
| in her inscrutable workings, decide first
upon the character of a child and then
match it with certain color in the iris?
| The pupil of the eye, if it is closely exam
| ined will be found to be rare object.
There is more meaning in its shades, in its
gently coruscations, in its quick transitions,
in its enlsrgements and contractions, than
one would believe until he has looked
thoughtfully into it. 1t seems to be direct
| ly connected with the soul.
1t is the pupil which grows large under
the influence of certain emotions and then
contracts under the workings of Others.
| Through this pupil we look in the soul.
No woman loves as she should love unless
this sensitive part of the eye grows large
and then recedes under the workings of
her rhapsody. The pupil, SO far as the re-
lation of the eye to the character is concern
ed, is really the whole of the eye.
And so, think, although others may
not agree with me, that the most beautiful
eye is that in which the pupil is the most
sensitive; where it is most responsive to
the operations of the spirit back Of it. /
| love to look into one of those sensitive
eyes. To me they seem like the summer
sky which now is filled by the effulgent
| light of the sun and anon is temporarily
darkened by passing cloud. If this kiad
| of eye is in the socket of the skull of an
emotional woman you may expect to see
lovely and a changeable character. Not
by any means an inconstant one, but one
that reflects the moods Of the spirit as
plainly as the clear blue sky shows the
passing cumulus.
4 man or a woman with this eye never
deceives by either look orword. Their ma
lures are frank and true. This eye I should
call the emotional eye, because it is always
accompanied by a strongly marked emo
tional nature. And it is for this reason
that this eye is generally the eye feminine.
Not that all women have this eye, but that
few men have it. We find it in the poet,
in the musician, the artist and the dreamer.
| should not look for it in business man.
A woman with this kind of eye will love
you with great intensity. If occasion de-
mands the change she can hate with like
fervor. But there is great deal of con-
stancy in being with this eye.
There are various degrees of gray eyes
and blue eyes, and black eyes and brown
eyes and some green eyes. All of these
colors mean some special characteristic.
Poets rave over the blue eyes. In three
cases out of five where an apostrophe is
addressed to the eye, or where an imagin-
airy heroine is created, she had blue eyes.
never could understand this predilection
for eyes of blue. True, they are very pret-
ty and generally are accompanied by
pretty complexion. But in the light blue
eye see nothing particularly striking. 1t
may make a pretty eye, but it seems to
me that the blue eye has superficial ex-
preston which is not always attractive.
There are blue eyes which are so deep in
the color that they are beautiful, and when
these are fringed with long lashes they
make rare eye. But these are not the
ordinary blue eyes. The average blue eye
is not magnetic. The hard blue eye is in
difference itself.
The black eye is the eye of intensity and
passion. There is no halfway business
about it. It is not so intelligent as the
green eye, the gray eye or the brown eye.
But it is soft and dreamy and amatery.
The man or the woman with the sloe black
eye goes to extremes. 1t is all softness or
all fierceness. The sloe black eye is not SO
expressive as the others, because there is
none of the delicate traeery of color lines
which we see in the other eyes. There is a
blankness to the iris of the very black eye
which detracts very much from its beauty.
And while under the influence of emotion
the coal black eye may change somewhat;
it can never be beautifully expressive, be-
cause the color shadings are all lost.
The brown eye is delicious eye. 1t is
soft and tender, dreamy and intelligent,
but more delicately sensuous than intel
lectual. 1t is wonder that more poets do
not address their rawlings to the brown than
to the blue eyes. The brown eye bespeaks
the genuinely tender nature. The possess
or OF it seldom goes to extremes. There
are few violent agitations of the DISPOSE
tion, although have seen brown eyes that
were accompanied by genuinely satanic
character. There is no rule without its ex-
seption, and it is not fair to the brown eye
to make this one standard for Judgment.
The brown eye is an eye to pin ones faith
to. 1t is the sunny nature and the gener-
| GUS that looks through the brown eyes.
But the best eye to me is the gray eye
And il there is a fieck of hazel in it, or,
better yet, touch of the violct's hue, it is
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