Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1886 — The Color of the Eye. [ARTICLE]

The Color of the Eye.

Some curious researches have recently been undertaken by Swiss and Swedish;physicians on the color of the eyes, but without afiy apparent practical purpose. For convenience all eyes were divided into blue or brown, the various shades of gray eyes being classified according to the prominence of blue or brown in ther coloj:. Some of the conclusions drawn from a great many observations are these: That women with brown eyes have better prospects for marriage than those with blue; that the average number of children is greater with parents whose eyes are dissimilar. In children both of throe per cent, inherit blue eyes; but imchildren both of whose parents have -brown eyes only eighty per cent, have brown eyes. The above results were reached in Switzerland. In Sweden the discoveries were not quite the same. The women with brown eyes are more numerous than the men with brown eyes 1 ; "but brown eyes are appair ently increasing there, as in Switzerland.