Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-02-29

SO soft-hearted and so kindly tina
yc. cannot Withstand the appeal o
poverty or suffering. Maybe tn,
world will impose upon you ane
your kindly nature when it dis
covers the fact.
Or it may be that your eyes tel
the world in spite OF you, that 20,
are crafty, cruel, greedy lacking il
sympathy for mankind or helpless.
animals. And while some few ma,
listen to your sweet words and for
get what your eyes are saying, Tho
children and the animals will reac
you Alright, for they will believe
your eyes. --'
Perhaps your eyes are traitors
that tell your sweetheart how muci
you love him when you want tc
play coquette and keep him from
guessing your hearts desire. Per.
haps when your pride would hid.
from your friend how a careless
word has hurt, your eyes fiji witt
tears and she knows-and lucky
for you that your eyes and no,
your pride won the day. For then
she puts her arm around you and
tells you it was all a mistake and
you forget the stab. ....
The stole may conceal all ex-
preston of pain so far as other
features are concerned, but even he
cannot make his eyes hide suffer
ing. The language of the optics
may be understood by all. The
Japanese and North American In
dian, the Englishnan and the Hot
tentot can look into one another's
eyes and understand. s..
Because OF its beauty and its
power of expression, the human eye
has been more written of by the
poets, dramatists and novelists than
any other in the whole category OF
objects known to humanity. From
Shakespeare to Ella Wheeler WI
cox, from Byron to Thomas Moore,
the eye has been the subject of many
a beautiful line.
We find sentimental Mr.. Moore
saying:
"A Perslan's heaven Is easily made,
IT'S put BLACK eyes and lemonade"
But il Mr.. Moore were still in the
land of the living we would ask why
confine the remark to Pcrsians or
to 60 farther, why include the
lemonade? We know people right
here III Omaha who would consider
themselves in heaven if allowed to
bask in the glow of certain black
eyes, and never even remark the
absence OF the lemonade. And
they aren't necessarily Persians,
either.
Jonson, although he doesn't speak
of lemonade, seemed also to have
the idea of a beverage when he
wrote his ode to Celia, in which he
begged her to
Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine!"
And while we have never seen
anyone drinking only with their
eyes," we have heard the verse
quoted so many times by the love
orn and others, we are certain there
must be something sentimentally
very appealing in Mr.. Jonson's lines.
To get back again to our lyrical
singer, Mr.. Moore, he simply could
aot keep away from the subject of
Eyes, which pops up time and again
n his verses. 1t was he who first
spoke of THE light that lies in
eyes," but it was an unfeel-
ng latter day dabster who added,
and lies and lies and lies" and took
Ill the romance out of it.
MY only books
"Were womans looks
And folly's all they taught ne!'
From which we opine that Mr..
Moore's cook had served him a less
iigestible or enjoyable dinner before
lc went to his task of verse writing,
han on other more salubrious occa-
,ions, and that neither the world nor
eyes had their usual attrac-
ion for him Just then.
Do you notice how, when one
would describe beautiful woman,
me invariably mentions her eyes?
writes of beautiful
Phantom of Delight: "Her eyes as
tars of twilight fair" while Brown
ng describes transcendently beat
iful woman, not by mentioning her
lands, her figure or her feet, but
ays: Sweetest eyes were ever
een."
Hundreds Of poets and other
writer's have used the closing of the
yes as the symbol OF death, and we
re all familiar with such phrases as
closing her eyes in her last, long
leep.' When one wants to express
I'D age, again it is Of the eyes one
peaks. We read of "the eyes dim
ned with the passage of the years"
" .eyes that have grown weary
the events of the years"
When one wants to tell Of hero
mes establishment, one doesn't re-
mark that she held her mouth open
although the astonished person
ordinarily does. As more expressive
We say. "she opened her eyes wide in
And so it is as one searches
literature. Eyes. always eyes, pop up
n every situation. telling the char
.cter of the possessor, indicating
beauty or lack of it, and invariably
n love story, serving as means Of
communication between lovers.
eliminate the word eyes from Eng
ish literature and some of the finest
Kings ever written would be mean
ngless.
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OMAHA couples, whose lives and
ideas of pleasure have grown
apart. are being drawn into the |
matrimonial net again by the friend
y dinner-dances given at clubs and
lotels. Even the most formal, con-
'entional and heretofore Stupid
clubs are gracefully