Eyes Analyzed

From the St. Jame's Gazette. SpeakinR popularly, we may say tbat eyes are brown, blue, gray, bazel, black, green, or of no color at all. Tbe last three varieties, however, are based on misnomer. Bpeakinc generally again, he may say that blue eyes take care of their friends, brown of their enemies, gray of their countries, black of their pleasures, and green of themselves. The blue is certainly the type with the greatest number of varieties. It is a color that illustrates preeminently the fetninine qualities - tenderness, affection, a yielding to the wishes of others, a sympathy with small sufferings, that measure of vanity without which no woman can be entirely attractive and that self-surreuder which goes far to Eersuade a man that he is a demigod ecause his wife believes it and tells him so. The color seeins to begetting more rare in these days. This is the blue that goes with golden halr. Blue eyes must be mated with their appropriate complexion. That ccloc, so fascinating in a blonde, is no less deliehtful in a brunette; but - .say the scientists - lts meaning is now altered. There comes in now, coupled with the affectionate qualities, a certain tendency to deceive, stimulated by an arabition for conquest and leading to the gratification of admiration. There remain the licht blue and the violet. The first is the eye of the Northern races - of the Swedes and the Danes, of the Scotch sometimes also. It suggests constancy and truth, steadfastness, simplicity, courage, purpose. It is a man's eye, with its moderation and self-respect - honest in the glance it gives you, at the samo time rather cold and phleematic. And then there is the violet eye. which is a woman'e eye, and oí which the niain characteristica are affection and purity,chivalric beliet and limited or deficiënt intellectuality. And now comea the brown eyes. They are the eyes of the south and of the êast- of the sunny races; the most passionate and the least original, and tothem belongthe lustrous black hair and the olive complexión of skin. Withthem wegetjealousy and truelty, somewhat of the feline nature in women; and in men, courage coupled with superstition, a wild recklessnessoflife, and a disregard for the sufferings of otbers. But the type has altered through infinito modifícations; and there are brown eyes In plenty that have nothing in conimon with the passionate qualities of the south. This may be generally predicted; that when the brown is lïght the disposition is affectionate but wayward, and as that brow darkens you pass from affection to passion. Last come the hazel eyes, which are more frequent in novéis than in life. No two people eeem quite agreed as to the defimtion of the color, and the reference to a hazel nut, which starts by being green, and passes through yellow to brown, confusingly illustrates every theory. A blue-gray radiated from within with brown and bronze streaks seenis to come nearest the general view. Adopting thia as the co'or, it will be een that they are chietly found among the mixed races, and especially the English and the Americana. They always sugi?est a good deal of strength of charactar, eenerally a sense of mischiefandtrfckiness - Puck probably liad hazel eyes - and soniet imes that humorous cruelty which belonys to the AngloSaxon race. Hazel-eyel people are raiely shallow, and you must be prepared for surprises when you have to deal with them. A lively New Vork correspondent says: "Mrs. Wm. K. Vanderbüt is the beauty and dasher of all the Vanderbilts. Her social doings have ever had a vim and style undesired, or, at least, unattatned by any other lady among them. Her toilets, her equlpages, her diversions have been always new and sometimes strange, whïle the others have seemed to strive for privacy, seclusion and quietude. To her is due the conception of this round-the-worldsplendor."