Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1917 — Luminous Eyes. [ARTICLE]

Luminous Eyes.

Cats among mammals, and owls among birds, says W. H. Hudson In his book “Idle Days in Patagonia,” are the most highly favored of any creatures in the matter of luminous eyes. “The feline eyes, as of a puma or wildcat, blazing with wrath, sometimes affect one like an electric shock; but for intense brilliance the yellow globes of the owl are unparalleled.” Mr. Hudson asserts that nature has done comparatively little for the human eye cither in these terrifying splendors or in beauty. He says that in Brazil he was greatly impressed with the magnificent appearance of many of the negro women; but that if they had only possessed the “golden irides” of certain intensely black tropical birds their “unique loveliness” would have been complete.—Outlook.