EXPRESSIONS OF THE EYE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VII, Issue 11, 14 March 1891, Page 14

EXPRESSIONS OF THE EYE.

Woman’s weapon is her eye, and the latest impoitation is the code for the manipulation of that organ. Within a certain range the female of our species has an instinctive perception of the manner in which her optical apparatus should be employed upon her complimentary creature in pantaloons, but science has reduced the subject to exact terms. Charts have been prepared showing that the eye has 729 distinctive expressions, conveying as many different shades of meaning. The proper thing to do is to procure one of these charts and reproduce with your own eyes the 729 expressions before a mirror. When you have mastered them all try them on other people and see how they work. It is popularly imagined that the eyeball itself is an expressive-thing, but as a matter of fact the ball of the eye has scarce any expression. That all depends upon the lids and brows. The upper lid does the intellectual ; its position is regulated by the sort of thinking you are doing. The lower lid expresses, by its drawing up or otherwise, the senses. The eyebrows are emotional, and so on. All this, however, is only the beginning. Certain it would appear that young ladies of the future, trained to make eyes on exact principles, will be much more seductive creatures than hitherto. But you must not be surprised if you find a girl winking at you ; it is ten to one that she is practicing the novel science of ocular expression.