The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-09
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, AUGUST o. 1896

10 increase their apparent size. Even in
the hands OF a competent beauty doc
tor the process Is dangerous. and when
tne result Is often a series OF painful Eis-
rs 10 the Oculst. as many a girl has
discovered 10 her sorrow
Into the realm OF sentiment. says the
New York sun. with heavy football. like
a bul I'm a china shop or an elephant
among porcelain. the stdate and matter
Ci-fact statistician Obtrudes himself. in
tent on dealing, through percentages, with
matters which, one might think, would
De exempt from such prosaic cOnsidera-
tlon me latest subjects or statistical
inquiry are light and dark eyes, and as
the result OF sundry responses TO Ques-
tons prOpOunded I'm various countries and
duly authenticated, il has been discovered
land not merely discovered, but also prov
ed) that, taking the average OF Europe
and America, 4A6 is the percentage OF
men having light eyes, including blue and
gray The proportion of girls and wo-
men having blue or gray eyes Is by the
same computation 3f.2 per cent In other
words, blue eyes are decidedly rarer
among women than among men. and il is
for this reason perhaps that blue eyes
especially in combination with blonde
hair. are esteemed 50 highly as feature
OF feminine beauty.
Men have light eyes ofteuer than wo-
men; but in the intermediate grade Of
color between light and dark the per-
centage of the two sexes is very nearly
though not quite, the same. In this inter-
mediate category are brown and hazel
eyes, neither pure light nor genuine black
! The percentage of these among men Is
49,. and among women 45.1. The percent
age of dark, or more properly, black, eyes
| is larger among women, being 07 per
cent. of the whole number while among
men it is 1913 Perhaps IL is the relative
rarity of dark eyes among men which
| establishes the rule that dark-eyed men
I = D1fg nv IN hn
tunate in the color of their eyes than the
| blue-eyed men.
The figures upon which these percent
ages are based are the result OF inquiries
not prosecuted in one or more of the
countries of Europe, or one or more states
of the United States, for, as Is well known,
in Southern European countries dark eyes
| both among men and women predomi-
nate, while light eyes are to be found
in just as high proportion in northern
countries.
The fashion in which the out-of-town
visitor to New York picks up the ways
| Of the metropolis, says the New York Trl-
| bune, is often amusing. group of Visi-
| tors from Missouri was observed the
| other evening at a prominent hotel. The
/ fact that it's members We're ignorant of
/ New York manners and customs was dis
| tressingly evident in every motion. They
| eyed the people in the dining room keen
| ly, and always waited until some one else
| led the way before they made move.
| They smacked of the rural districts plain
| ly, but they were bright eyed and alert.
/ A New Yorker who was taking two-days
vacation from Newport, looked at them
curiously and said to an inexperienced
/ friend:
do you see that woman In the odd gar
| ment?" The woman pointed out was prim
| almost to plainness. Her hair was comb
/ ed back tightly from her forehead. she
/ wore a black gown that looked like an
inheritance from her grandmother, and
hue ~ Hrsaa urfa cd
| Now" continued the New Yorker, who
| had seen many a Indianapolis before,
| Just you watch that woman for Few
| days and you will see change. Perhaps
/ you noticed when she sat down that she
| seemed quite proud of her black silk dress
| and her bracelet. If you will look now
| you will see that she is evidently worried
| about something The truth is, she Is
! looking for some other gown like her own,
| and all she can see is a lot OF airy love-
| Illness in the shape of light, lace-trimmed
! summer costumes. She does not see any
| jeWerly either, and she is mystihed. l
| doubt whether there is as gorgeous a silk
| dress anywhere in the whole neighborhood
| Of where she lives as the one she has on,
! but it isn't good form here, and II you will
| watch her a few days you will see that
| she will realize the fact"
| The next day the inexperienced friend
happened to be in the dining-rOom when
| the same party came in. Remembering
| the words of the observant man, he glanc-
ed curiously at the party and his eyes
| sought for the black silk gown. At first
| he thought it's wearer was not in the par
| ty; a second glance showed she was there
but what a significant changed The
black dress had disappeared and there
| blossomed upon the vision a blouse waist
| Of graceful pattern and fluffy material,
and a light skirt of appreciate texture.
There was, besides this, an Improvement
| which it took some time to figure out.
| All at once it flashed across my mind The
bracelet was gone; and the hair-yes, the
| hair had taken on wavy disorder that
| was in marked contrast with its former
severely plain braiding and a little curl
| fell coquettishly over the forehead The
men also had undergone a transforma-
| ton. The dark broadclOth had given way
to light serge suits, and the stiff derbys
were replaced by cool straw hats. 1t was
/ a total change, and no one would have
| seen anything about the party that would
| contrast them with the most correctly
dressed resident Of the metropolis
It seems marvellous to an American clti-
| zen, says the Philadelphia Times, that
| the social doing of royalty should have
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