FAMOUS EYES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 179, 15 July 1911, Page 4 (Supplement)

FAMOUS EYES.

It is said that tho majority of the ‘vorld’s geniuses have had blue or blue-grey eyes; while the predominating colour in lunatic asylums and criminal institutions is mentioned as blown. The following are the eve-colours of some of the most famous people in history. The eyes of Caesar were black and piercing. Cleopatra’s eyes were light hazel. Helen of Troy had blue orbs; those of Joan of Arc and Mary Queen of ■•scots, liquid grey; Queen Elizabeths’ were hazel. Washington had very forceful grov eyes that commanded respect and obedience. Keen glances came from Nanoleon’s grey eyes that seemed to search men’s hearts. Mark Twain’s eyes were small, black, and keen. Gladstone had large, luminous grey eves.

' Disraeli’s eyes in his youth were quite black, and it. i* remarked that they had “the most mocking, lying-in-wait sort cf ex’Te sion conceivabtoCarlyle describes the eves of Wellington as ’‘beautiful light-blue; full of mild valour and geniality.”

| THE TRUE HAPPINESS. i “What is happiness?” I queried of the | fellow at my side. i “Getting everything I long for!" Thus i the selfish man replied. I Then I questioned yet another, “What is happiness ” And ho, I Tied to uncongenial spouse, said, i ‘‘Why, it’s getting free.” I Of a third 1 sought an answer, “What I is it, T prithee tell - :” , Faintly from his bed of sickness this j one answered, “Getting well.” i Then a man of strong ambition, wealth j and power his only care — j Slangily he gave' me answer, “HappiI ness is getting there!” I Asked I then the social climber; '• “Long.” she said, ’’l’ve tried to win i Entrance to that upper circle; happi- ! ness is getting in.” i Next I visited a prison ; quite the I , other way about ! W’as the questioned convict’s answer: I ‘‘Happiness is getting out.” I Then the miser, sour and crabbed, soul and body moan and small ; ’ Grasping at his gold, he mumbled. “Getting—getting! That is all!” As I pondered o’er those answers, two words stood out strong and clear. ' '’’Happiness” to mo<t is “GE LTING—- ' getting something or somewhere.” ■ Not so to the last J questioned, his a wisdom beyond price; • “Happiness.” ’said he. “is GIVING, ■ self-forgetting, sacrifice.”