BEAUTY'S EYES
We read in an overseas cable the other day that a Miss Helen Stricter possesses "the most beautiful eyes in America." That is the sort t>f thing the cable man reels off without a tremor, comments a correspondent. If you were to ask him how he knew, and whether ho was speaking from personal observation of the hundred million pairs of eyes in America, he might feel confused. Or ho might not. The plain truth is that no ono knows who possesses tho most beautiful eyes in any country, for beauty lurks in unexpected places, and an exhaustive search is out of tho question. Expression has a lot to do with it, and how can you judge expression? The colour that appeals to one person might easily repel another. Perhaps the most haunting eyes ever written about aro thoso in Swinburno's "Felise". Eyes coloured like a water flower, And greener than tho green sea's glass, Eyes that remember ono sweet hour— In vain we sworo it should not pass, Felise, alas! These wonderful eyes could also be, on occasion, "the greyest of things blue" and " the bluest of things grey." Has Helen Stricter eyes like that?
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22166, 20 July 1935, Page 6 (Supplement)
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198BEAUTY'S EYES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22166, 20 July 1935, Page 6 (Supplement)
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