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 THE EYES, EYEBROWS, EYELASHES, AND THE SENSE OF SIGHT.

PROPER FORM AND COLOR OF THE EYE.

No feature of the face is more expressive than the eye, none is more important to have under command, and to use to the best advantage. Of all senses that of sight is most valuable to us, and provides us the most gratifications. It can supply to an astonishing extent the lack of the sense of hearing. A lady recently told us that some years since she was introduced to, and conversed for an hour with, the wife of the celebrated Professor M., so well known for his discoveries in electricity. What was her astonishment afterwards to learn that that lady was entirely deaf, but had maintained a conversation for that length of time with a stranger without making an error, simply by observing the movements of the mouth and the expression!

The eyes should divide the upper from the middle