The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-02-22
BLUE EYES AND BROWN EYES
Als0 Eyes of other COlOrs and What
They Are Taken to Indicate
in Character.

The majority of people do not know
the color of their best friends eyes.
They remember faces by the nose and
mouth. Sometimes the ears; more
often by the general expression. The
eye itself has no expression, although,
it is considered the most expressive OF
all features. The expression that is
attributed to the eye really resides in
the lids, the eyebrows and the muscles
of the adjacent part of the face. 1t Is
to this expression that the attention
of most people is directed, says the De-
troit Free Press. They see light COM
ing from the eye and vitalizing the ex-
preston of the lids and muscles, but
the real character of the eye they fail
to notice. There is fascination in
the study of the color OF the eye, and it
is held that there is no color recog-
nized that cannot be found in the eyes
of some human being. There are red
eyes, green eyes, golden eyes, violet
eyes, sapphire, baby blue, black, white,
yellow eyes, and eyes, besides, in
which these tints are mixed.
Blue eyes are said to be the mos.
numerous, and of these there are many
varieties. The most common kind is
that which is really mixture of dark
blue and grayish white. With this
kind of an eye sometimes the blue and
white are mixed irregularly, in which
lease the eye lacks brilliance, though il
may be lustrous. Sometimes the body
| of the iris is grayish white, with blue
radii extending from the pupil. This
marking gives a peculiarly hard ex-
! preston to the eye. In still another
sub-variety the central part of the iris
is light blush gray, with rim of dark
blue. Such an eye is often mistaken
for black. The dark rim around the
iris is not so noticeable in blue eyes as
| in some other kinds, notably, white
and golden eyes, in which it produces q
strange, startling and fascinating eff
| feet.
The limpid blue eye is comparative
ly rare. 1t is of a uniform celebration
and appears to be almost liquid. Fine
specimens have a certain beauty, but
the eye, as rule, lacks character
Near akin to it is the china blue OF
robins egg blue eye, also of uniform
coloration, but lacking liquidity. 1
also, is lacking somewhat in charac
ter.
The varieties of brown eyes art
numberless. The deepest shade usual
ly passes for black. Some eyes of thi
shade suggest a velvety texture, ant
the whites by contrast have peculia
pearly luster. Then there are the sof
brown eyes that are usually calle'
pleasant, and the sharp brown eye
that are called snappy. You may occa
sionally find brown eyes of such ligh
tint as to be called properly orange o
yellow. The golden eye is variety o
the brown eye, but wonderful va
riety. 1t is not a yellow eye; it is in
finitely more strange, more beautifu
than the yellow eye. Golden eyes ar
not ferocious; they suggest the will
creature that has been tanned I
gentleness.
Green eyes are often the most fas
cinating of all eyes. and the shade
rarely found unmixed. Usually tn
green tint is mixed with gray O
brown, or both. The combination wit
brown or brown and gray is know
Familiarity as the brown-hazel O
gree1-ha eye, which, popular VIII
dom has tits always to be truste'
Green i'm the eye is thought to indicat
treachery, but usually it indicate
power of fascination. Thackeray gay
Becky Sharp green eyes, and Beck
@as both treacherous and Fascinating