BECKY SHARP

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21248, 30 July 1932, Page 6 (Supplement)

BECKY SHARP

WINDOW OF THE SOUL TELL-TALE EYES " The mind has a thousand eyes," or, rather, as the mind is made up of thousands of cells, so the eye sees in a thousand ways. You are happy in love: all seems rose. You are ill; all seems black. We all recognise this change in vision, yet do not understand the reason. We call the eye the window of the soul. Even the colour of the eye is significant, changing according to the temperament of the person to whom it belongs. . . A green eye denotes genius —genius and jealousy. Becky Sharp had green eyes. A blue eye shows beauty and self-con-trol. A brown or black eye shows passion. A grey eye a sincere and serious disposition. A hazel eye, especially if dark, shows a competent mind. Keen business men have often small, eagle-shaped eyes that are a mixture of grey and blue and green. One's way of life changes the aspect of the eyes. Concentration makes them grow smaller, as in the student. Babies are all born with blue eyes. The colour changes as the character crystalPoets in every clime have sung to the beauty of women's eyes. Usually it is the physical beauty that has attracted. The violet eye of Irish beauties is lovely and warm. Artists love to paint liquid, almondshaped eyes, sometimes mauvo in colour. But the power of that haunting beauty, Mona Lisa, lay rather in the subtle expression of her eyes, and not in their colour or shape. The true beauty of a woman's eye lies in the soul it reveals, the mind to which it gives expression.