Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-21
EYES THAT rAsc1NArE YOU
Black Eyes and Blue, Grey Eyes and
Green,

I Green.
I Master Godf-e in Detroit Free Press
There are eyes and eyes, just as ther
! are noses and noses. | mean by this tha
there are degrees of excellence in the eve
as there are degrees of excellence in al
the works of nature The standard G
beauty in the eye, beyond certain effects
is largely arbitrary. 1t depends a goo,
deal upon the individual fancy.
have already, in one of my silhouettes
quoted from one of the charming sermon
of that polished and scholarly churchman
Bishop Jeremy Taylor, and cited the cas-
of the Greek painter who attempted t,
create an ideally beautiful face and head
lie chose the most beautiful features from
the faces that in his opinion were the per
feet faces. He fancied the eye of Chione
the hair of Pegnium and Tarsias lip
Philenium's chin and the forehead o
Delphia, and set all these upon Milphidip
pas neck and thought he should outdc
both art and nature. But he did not sue
ceed so well as he had hoped. When he
came to view the proportions he found
that the lip he considered perfect in Tarsia
was not in accord with the chin of Phile
mum; that Chione's eye and Delphia':
forehead were not intended the one for the
other, and that while alone the hair Of
Pegnium was the perfection of hirsute
adornment, on Milphidippa's neck it cut a
very sorry figure. And the Greek found
that he could not make a beautiful face
but that what he hoped would be beauti.
ful was in fact quite ugly. Nature works
differently. The most captivatingly beau
tiful face often has imperfect features.
1t 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.
Perhaps it would be better to say that the
degree of ones character is somewhat re-
Elected in the color and expression of the
eye. Why is this SO? Is there physical
or phychicai reason for it? Does nature
In its 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 it shades, in its
gentle coruscations, in its quick transitions,
In its enlargements and contractions than
one would believe until he has looked
thoughtfully into it. 1t seems to be di-
rectly connected with the soul.
A BEAUTIFUL EYE ALWAYS EMOTIONAL.
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 eve grows large
and then recedes under the workings of
her rhapsody. The pupil, so far as the
relation of the eye to the character is con-
cerned, 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 the 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 kind
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.
A man or woman with this eve never
deeeives by either look or word. Their
natures are frank and true. This eve |
should call the emotional eye, because it is
always accompanied by strongly marked
emotional nature. And it is for this rea-
son that this eye is generally the eve
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
If occasion demands the change
she can hate with like fervor. But there
is great deal of constancy in being with
this eye.
But my silhouette on the eyeis becoming
too abstract. Let US confne it to the con-
crete. 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 character
istic. Poets rave over the blue ewes. In
three cases out of five where an apostrophe
is addressed to the eye, or where an
Imaginary heroine is created, she has blue
eyes. | never could understand this pre-
dilection for eyes of blue. True, they are
very pretty and generally are accompanied
by pretty complexion. But in the light
blue eye / see nothing particularly strik-
ing. 1t may make pretty eye, but it
seems to me that the blue eve has a SUPER
fetal expression which Is not always at
tractiye. There are blue eyes which are
so deep in the color that they are beauti-
ful, 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 difference itself.
The black eye is the eye of intensity
and passion. There is noshalf way busi-
ness about it. 1t is not so intelligent as
the green eye, the gray eye or the brown
eve. But it is soft and dreamy and anna
tory. The man or the woman with the
sloe black eye goes to extremes. 1t is all
softness or all ferceness. The sloe black
eye is not SO expressive as the others, be-
cause there is none Of the delicate traces
of color lines which We see in the other
ones. There is a blankness to the iris of
the very black eve which detracts very
much from its beauty, and while under the
influence of emotion the coal black eye
may change somewhat it never can be
beautifully expressive because the color
shadings are all lost.
The brown eye is delicious eys. 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 eye. The brown eye be-
speaks the genuinely tender nature The
possessor of it seldom goes to extremes.
There are few violent agitations of the
disposition, although | have seen brown
eyes that were accompanied by a genu-
inely satanic character. There is no rule
without its exception, and it is not fair to
the brown eye to make this one a standard
for judgment. The brown eye is an eye to
pin ones faith to. 1t is the sunny nature
and the generous that looks through the
brown eyes.
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