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Show j A Dyspeptic In Search of Pleasure. (The Strand.) Beautiful eyes can do much to compensate com-pensate for rough-hewn or Irregular features. An old couplet runs thus: "Blue eyes beat black fifty to seven, For black is of hell, but blue is of heaven." This is as may be, but who has -not seen a splendid pair of eyes light up and glorify a face that has grievous drawbacks In the shape of a big nose, a plain mouth, or a bad complexion? Large,, dark eyes, with their deep fires, make one forget many defects even a sallow skin or a short, stumpy figure. Then dark gray or deep blue eyes have much charm, and the beauty of Irish eyes has passed into a proverb. Green eyes can also cast a spell, and have worked mischief from the far-off daj of Becky Sharp to those of Sally Snape. ) Lady Kidderminster, in this year of grace 190S. Byron wrote: "I'm very fond of handsome eyes," and "lovely as j is the light of a dark eye in woman." j Men seem to have a special fancy for j fine eyes, and certainly they are a feature fea-ture that covers a multitude of sins In a woman's appearance. |