The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-25


where 1t Seeks TO Hide ItseIf-The
Preachers Eye, Lawyers Eye, ana
Doctors Eye-=SOme Practical Hints
as to Eye study.
From the New York Sun
II don't care a picayune what you say,
I say he Is absolutely N. G." said the
literary man dropping into the easiest
chair at the window.
Now what right have you to say that
about him?" questioned his companion,
the broker, irritably. you have not met
him more than three times, and here you
are asserting that he is no good. You
literary fellows make me tired reading
your human books. as you call respectable
people. He's one of the squarest fellows
I've met in Tong time, Smuggins is, and
l like him, Notwithstanding what you say.
What reason have you for dislilxng him?"
Ellis eyelds," answered the literary
man.
"Bosh" exclaimed the other.
do you know" continued the literary
man, that you can read not only per-
| sons emotions but his real character by
his eyelids?"
"Is there any paresls in your family?"
asked the broker, and the physician who
| joined the couple just in time to catch
this question smiled but said nothing.
"Hoot at me if you want to- retorted
the literary man, but any man who
spends his time writing about things that
are of human interest viii tell you that
it is the eyelid and not the eye which
| denotes character. Nothing about hui
man being is described by writer's with 50
much inaccuracy as the eye, and at the
| same time with so much beauty. 1t is
| not the eye at all but the eyelid which
| is of importance as an index 10 ones in
ner self All the little muscles along the
| edges talk. They speak not only the OBJ
| vious and emphatic things, but tell of all
| the hopes, joys, ambitions. disappoint-
ments, sorrows. perceptions, doubts, APP
| prehensions, and so on. They confess
| and reject they have ever expressed all
| things since man became man. And they
! always will"
whats the matter with Smugginss
! eye-lds?' asked the broker.
''They droop over his eyes when he looks
at you straight, which he rarely does, and
that shows that he has something in him
which he wises to hide. Mind you, l don't
| say he has ever done a dishonest act but
he is capable of it, and you'd better keep
| your eyes open. You know there is really
| no message from the eye. II expresses
| nothing. The eyelid Is all the more inter-
! esting because it seems to hide and reveal
! that which expresses nothing. True, the
| eye moves and has direction in the SER
| vice of the sense of sight, and it receives
the messages of the world, but gives no
| outward expression. Think of race with
out eyelids. Their faces would be almost
/ blank"
The doctor smiled.
"The eyes do betray emotion" put in
81 ht Ia inc
contracting of the pupils"
| oh" answered the literary man, the
pupils rarely contract and dilate under
! any influences except those of darkness
and iIance-occasionally they do, how
/ ever, and when this is the case the ex-
| preston doesn't amount to anything. 1t
] implies emotion, 1 grant you, and touches
| us because we have knowledge of the per-
! turbed spirit thHt must cause It, bat 9TH
/ erwise 1t does not define or describe or
| divide the emotion only the eyelid can do
/ that I'll admit the color OF the eye is sig
nihcant of temperament, but as regards
| beauty color amounts TO almost nothing.
/ 1t is the eye-lid that Is beautiful, elo-
quent, magnetic, or hideous, unresponsive,
| repellent. Study eyelids and you won't get
! picked up in the street so often and you'll
/ make a greater success in your brokerage
business. Don't bother about the eyes.
| they will take care Of themselves. Am j
not right, doctor?
"Half right and half wrong" said the
| DOCTOR looking up at the ceiling through
rings of smoke. The eyelids express a
| great deal more than people think, but
/ after all they are only the curtains and
| servants Of the eyes This shows, doesn't
| it, that the eye is the really important or
| gan? The lid is there to protect 1t from
| injury and the lashes from foreign bodies
| and TO Intricate IT, The eyes, eyelids
! and forehead work In conjunction, but l
am sure there is more Of the expression of
! character to be found In the eye than IN
| the lid. The expression Is more manifest
| TO doctor than to any one else"
why do you say that the eye expresses
/ more than the lid?" asked the literary
man, sitting up straight
did you ever see any prize fightsT'
| asked the doctor. well then, yAu've no.
ticed that the antagonists never watch
/ each others hands or the motions of each
/ others bodies They watch each others
eyes, and through the eyes interpret how
| the next blow will be made. They couldn't
learn anything from the lids, my dear
old chap. The eye tells tho tale of
| punches and cuts.
That's the reason II is. so difficult to
talk to a person who will not look you in
! the eye. IL the eyelid droops so as TO
| cover the eye II shows that the character
| Is deceptive. That person has something
/ which he wishes to hide, or wishes to
| deceive you, and Is without sufhcient
strength within TO cover It up. A great
deal Of the vital force goes out through
| the eye. You meet a man and you ex-
claim: How do you dor You are look
| ing well to-day You gather that from
his clear skin and his bright eye. That
man gives you look for look and you
see the life In his eye. II you meet him
another morning when his vitality is at a
/ low ebb the eyelld droops over the eye
and he isn't able to meet your glances.
| This is especially true OF men whose funds
are low. II Is said that the reason white
men find II so hard % Tight negroes Ia be-
cause the eye OF the negro Is 50 dark
| Il Is almost Impossible to watch It close
| ~, and many claim that that Is the tea-
son Jackson was such a hard one to
/ down.
''My way Of sizing up a person Is TO look
/ clear 70 the back Of the head through the
/ eyes. Look quietly and steadily (mind
/ you, there's a difference between looking
/ and staring, and a second sight seems 10
come 10 you through their eyes. How often
do we hear the expression; I can't bear
| 20 meet his eyes And haven't you gone
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