New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-12-31
LET EYES DECIDE
Wise Advice for Those Contem.
plating Matrimony.
The Dreamer Needs q Brown yed
Mate; Practical Person Should
Choose Blue or Gray.

who make better mates. persons
With brown eyes or persons with blue
Although no hard-and-fast rule can
be laid down, those with brown eyes
are more %steadfast and faithful. Nat
l~ralists say that dogs or horses with
ieap brown eyes are gentler than those
with the grayish tint. This applies
equally to human beings.
Brown eyes mean g~entleness. The
secret of married life Is tolerance,
which Is another word for gentleness.
1t must not be imagined that men or
with gray or blue eyes are nee
~essarily intOlerant. But, generally
speaking, character can be told from
eyes.
A man with wistful brown eyes prob
ably will be a dreamer. Suppose he
marries blue eyes-that Indicate indi-
vidualism and often egOtism-after a
while blue eyes will tire of brown
eyes. Gentleness and dreaminess will
be mistaken for weakness, and blue
or gray eyes usually deIpise weakness.
Without respect. love cannot last.
If. therefore, you are a dreamy per-
son, look for a life companion, a mate,
In the man or woman who possesses
brown eyes. If you are a man, you
will need comforting and 'mothering."
Psychologists say that all men with
the "mother-cOmplex heart"-a heart
that is gentle, and wants TO mother
or protect somebody, and, therefore, to
be 'mothered" In turn-are born with
brown eyes. Brown-eyed people are
usually romantic and sentimental.
Blue-eyed people are more practical.
They usually laugh at sentiment call
Ing 1t "sickly sentimentality." I'm
aglne, therefore. Il sensitive girl mar
rled To a man who considers her to be
weak and II "sentlmentallst." How Is
love going to last IN those circum-
stances?
Curiously enough, like usually at
tracts unlike In early youth, as n
pole of a magnet draws the opposite
pole of another. Therefore, an ex-
trcmely sentimental nan often falls in
love, or imaglnes himself TO fall In
love, with an extremely practical
young woman, the result being n tenn
porary broken heart IN the part Of The
Unfortunate youth. Brown eyes YER
sus blue eyes. in all probability.
Yet imagine for II moment what
would have happened, had they mar
RED. The first wonderful attraction
If Opposites-and while ii lasts 1t Is
soon pass, for no
ire can blaze in brilliance indefinitely.
Imagine the two going for II walk on Il
night.
IIe-thc brown-eycd sentlmentalist-
would feel thrilled by the beauty Of
he night, of the moon rising like a
white water lily in the dark
DOol of the sky. Or perhaps he would
want to pause and gaze at the stars,
n watch n ghostly barn owl winnow-
ng over the young corn. He would
romance In the nights mysteries,
want Ia stay and dream.
Bur she-the blue-cyed practical one
remember that a certain
mount of sleep IN necessary If work
$ TO be done properly on the morrow,
hat colds" might ensue from linger-
ny in the dew fall. However each
night wish to please the other, intoler-
nee would creep in, and the old words,
He-or she-doesn't understand"
Misunderstanding means misery.
II you are a dreamer, marry n
reamer; IL you are brown-eyed, marry
~brown-eyed person. II you like life
action. and possess blue or gray
r green-eyeS, marry n person with
yes of one Of those colors.-London
.nswers.