Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-07-30 | Page 41 | No Such Thing as "Glad Eye"

No Such Thing as "Glad Eye" tl I r.MiiA nam a ueaiuiug e. e, sans JLthe poet. It ls quite likely that she had. But if she did It was because her blood pressure was at the time abnormally Increased, her circulation too rapid, and what she needed was not verses but a sedative. There has been a great deal written about expression in eyes. Tretty nearly every adjective In the language lit s eyes, and the constant search of the modern poet ls for one that hasn't yet been used as a spectacle lens. Thus we have the sparkling eye, the fiery eye, the gentle eye, flashing, cruel, cold, warm and dancing eye even the glad eye. Science, practical and unpoetieal, now explains that there isn't any expression in the eye at all worth speaking of. Colors, sizes, degrees of clearness, yes but ex- piessiou, no. 11 is an a niauer 01 muscles. Sir I.auder r.runtou of London declares expression to depend chiefly upon the set-ling set-ling of the eyes and not upon the eyeball itself. He tells that ho illustrated this by' pictures. In 'one he bad a Madonna, in another a figure of Anger, from I.avator's "Physiognomy." He bad besides a pupil and iris, and used these, a pair of ordinary eyes, for each picture, and it u:d not materially ma-terially alter the expression. He also made the "fatigued" eye simply by lowering lower-ing the eyelid over an "alert" one. Now, take eyes by themselves, as in the game of guessing identity by only seeing them through a hole In a curtain. This guessing proves more dillicult than one would Imagine, partly because the same expression the stolid stare is put on by all to hinder detection, and no tell-tale muscularity is seen.