What the Colour of the Eyes Denote.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 195, 19 March 1887, Page 4

What the Colour of the Eyes Denote.

Gbby eyes are not all mischievous. There is the calm, clear, grey eye that reasons as well as feels, that belongs to the brilliant talker, who is never thinking how she may ensnare you, rarely lighted by passion, but full of the steady fire of friendship, and ever awake to the behestd of duty. When the master comes she makes the sweetest and truest of wives, but woe to the dunderhead who thinks he can tame her. Let the blue eye tell ot love, And the black eye of beauty, But the grey sours far above In tho realm of duty. Ardour for the blaok proclaim, Gentle eympathy for bluo, But the j?rey may fte the same, And ttio grey is ever true. Sing, then, of the bluo eyes, love, bint? the hazel eye ol beauty, Butth j grey ci e$ crowned above, Radiant in the realm of duty. There are two kinds of hasel eyes, the dark hazel with a blue shade and the light hazel, in which yellow, green, and blue all mingle, sometimes one and sometimes an other of the shades predominating. These were the eyes of Cleopatra. They indicate brain, temper, spirit, and passion. She who looks through such luminout windows can purr like a cat and soothe you into submission, or she can spring like a panther when the occasion calls for it. The Southern Creoles often have such eyes. But the dark hazel belongs to a woman of different temperament. &he inepireß a platonic sentiment, is useful, agreeable, intellectual, never talks too much nor too iittle,and never gossips. Graceful and tender, loving, kind. The widfl world o'er you will not find, Eyes that so firm the heart can blind, Brown eyea are often confounded with hazel, but they form a eeparate class and have a softness and beauty peculiarly their own. They often go with light hair and fresh, fair complexions, and are full o£ laughing brigutnebfi- Others of more decided brown go with black hair and a dark, brilliant complexion. Thy brown eyea have a look of birds Fiyj jk straightway to the light. The poets have praiaed blue oye3 more, perhaps, than aiiy other kind. Those eyss. Soft and capacious a^ a oloudloss aky thoso azuro depths thoir colour emulates. The largo, light blue eye, with the golden e>eiaeh and the faintly traced brow, is the type of purity and peace, while the dark, lubtrous blue eye, full of emotion, as ifc may be, is steadfast and true to the very bottom of its limpid depthe. This kind often goeß with the rarest face on carth — the beauty with jot black hair and a complexion palo and colourless, but clear aft parian marble. Black oyes most dazzle at a ball, Blue oyoa most pleaso at evening tall ; The black a conquest soonest gains. The blue a cj: quest btßt retains. Helen of Troy had blue eye?, and Homer gives Juno, Minerva, and Venus eyea of the eanre hue. Although novelists and poets have usually associated the tragic spirit with pafisionate bteck eyes, they are not borne out by the facts of actual life. Lucretia Borgia had blue eyes and blonde hair, so had Mmc, Brinvilliers, the moat beautiful and moat devilish woman of her time, or perhaps ail time. Joan of Arc waa a grey-eyed blonde, Mary, Queen of Scots, had grey eyes, and Queen Elizabeth had grey eyes and redhair. Blackeyed women are more apt to be more passionate and jealous than their blue-eyed sisters,! but they do not hold their (paasioß so long, and are not so vengeful in spirit. And green oyoe, what can be said of them ? T*iey are usually very handsome, and full of love and sincerity. Dante's Beatrice had green eyes that shone like emeralds. And in her tender eyea Just that soft h id-?of sreen we eomeiimesses in evening skiea. The Spaniards greatly admire green. They are not bewildering like^ the blue, dangerous like the grey, passionate like the black, nor affectionate like the brown, but they aie the eyes that see visions like tho poefc, and they love to dwell, apart from the oaitblinesa about them, in realms of tho imagination, Men's eyes are not often so striking or ao beautiful as women's, but a man who possesses a fine eye has a good inheritance. Groat leaders have usually good eyesw Washington's eyes commanded respect and submission. From youth to age he was never treated with familiarity by those who were near him. Governor Morris once slapped him familiarly on the shoulder, in fulfilmentof a bet he had made, but wheu Washington turned his eyes on him, Mnrria almost sank to the ground, and moat abjectly apologised. Napoleon had the same keen glance out of his grey eyes that searched tothe very bottom of one's heart.