The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-05
TOMAN'S WORLD

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haired men and women find themselves
doing persistently certain little insig-
nihcant things. Just because their
mothers taught them the habits in
their chillhCod-funny little fotsam
and jetsam of infancy which the waves
of time have left high and dry on the
arid plains of age.
Il always end up my prayers every
night by saying God bless papa and
mamma and make me a good girl, "
said an aged woman recently. II can
not give il up; it is like saying amen
10 my petitions. My dear parents have
l"ng since Joined the great majorit2'
but always keep ii up, and undoubt-
edly will do SO until l die
The small courtesies of life. says the
New York Tribune, which do so much
toward sweetening existence are al
most all of them habits acquired in
the nursery, which become second ma.
ture in after years and never leave one
- marking the innate difference be-
tween geCtle breeding and want of
carly culture. In some of these ele-
mentary remnants of nursery origin
one can trace the teaching of some
old nurse whose wise sayings used to
be like inspired utterances, or of moral
tales, particularly Miss Edgeworth's 5,
that have had a lasting influence quite
incommensurate with the importance of
the subject matter. Take the cutting
or Irvine around a parcel, for instance.
How many women will insist upon the
family painfully untying hard knots,
no matter how long it takes to open the
parcel, all on account of the historic
hero in Miss Edgeworth's 1.-TWO Strings
to a Bow" which depicted the ultimate
triumph which resulted from the care
full disentangling and preservation of
cord around a bundle. A ball of Irvine
which costs a few cents will last the
needs of an ordinary family for a year,
and yet many excellent housekeepers
re fuse to purchase this simple luxury.
rolling up conscientiously the united
strings that come around the parcels
and putting them into a drawer for
use. How frequently the supply gives
out at crucial moments, and how often
it is impossible to find a piece of the
right length when in a great hurry,
CEly the harassed head of the family
whose wife's pet economy is the pre-
servation of parcel cord and who re-
fuses to buy Irvine in consequence could
say.
THE HARVEST OF LIFE.
They are moving the meadows now
and the whispering, signing
Song of the scythe breathes sweet
on mine idle ear
Songs of old summers dead and of this
one dying
Roses on roses fallen, and year on
year.
Softly as swathes that sink while the
long scythe, swinging,
Passes and pauses and sweeps
through the deep green grass;
STRANGE hOW this song of the SHXthP
sets the old days singing
Echoes of seasons gone, and of these
that pass.
Fair ghost of youth-from your sea-
fragrant orchard closes
Called by the voice of the scythe as
it signs and swings
Tell me now as you toss me your phan-
tom roses.
What was the dream you dreamed
through those vagrant springs?
What that forgotten air when the
heart went maying?
What was the perfume blowing afar,
anear?
"Youth-youth-yout the scythe
keeps signing and saying
1.-THE rose you saw not--the tune that
you could not hear"
From Harpers Magazine.
The latest subjects of statistical in
quiry are light and dark eyes, and it
is announced that. taking the average
of Europe and America, 44.6 is the
percentage of men having light eyes,
including blue and gray. The proper
ton of women having blue or gray
eyes is 1922 per cent. In other words,
says the New York Sun, blue eyes are
decidedly rarer among women than
among men.
Men have light eyes oftener than
women, but in the intermediate grades
of color between light and dark, the
percentage of the two sexes is very
nearly the same. In this intermediate
category are brown and hazel eyes.
The percentage of these among men
is 43.1. and among women 45.1.
The percentage of black eyes is iarg
er among women than among men, be-
ing 20.7 per cent. for the women, while
among men it is 1913.
Blue eyes are considered to possess
great attractions. This was the case
among the Greeks and Romans of clas
sic times. Upon the Goddess Minerva
was bestowed a surname to signify the
blueness of her eyes.
Gray eyes-wells that a man might
fall into-have ever been the ideal of
all great novelists; among the num-
Der, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot,
Wilkie Collins and Charles Reade.
Most of the heronies in up-to-date fic-
ton are gray-eyed maidens.
OF the living great, as well as the
vast army of the dead who have dis
tinguished themselves, most have eyes
of gray or blue.
Shakespeare had eyes of gray; so
had nearly all the English poets. Col
eridge's eyes were large, light gray,
prominent and of liquid brilliancy.
Byron's eyes were gray, fringed with
long, black lashes.
Charles Lambs glittering eyes were
strangely dissimilar in color one be-
ing hazel, the other having specks of
gray in the iris. Chatterton's brilliant
gray eyes were his most remarkable
feature. Under strong excitement one
appeared brighter and larger than the
other.
AS to green eyes, they are for glory.
The Empress Catharine of Russia had
eyes of this hue. In Don Quixote"
green eyes are thus referred to:
But, now l think on 1t, Sancho, thy
description of her beauty was a little
absurd in that particular of comparing
her eyes to pearls. Sure, such eyes are
more like those of whiting or a sea-
Dream than those of a fair lady; and
in my opinion Dulcineas eyes are
rather like two verdant emerald's, rail-
ed in with two celestial arches, which
signify her eyebrows. Therefore, San
cho, you had better take your pearls
from her eyes and apply them to her
teeth"
The writer of a Persian song says: