PERILS OF BLUE EYES.

Shannon News, 31 October 1924, Page 2

PERILS OF BLUE EYES.

DANGERS AND COMPENSATIONS. Many great men, like Caesar, Napoleon, and Shakespeare have been blue-eyed, it is true, and that colour is said to be the hue that marks an adventurous soul. On the other hand, many notorious criminals have been blue-eyed. Statistics show that 80 per cent of the locomotive engineers in England and America belong to the blue-eyed type, according to an oflicial at the Toronto conference of Locomotive Engineers. Sailors are commonly supposed to have blue eyes, and so are soldiers and explorers. There is another aspect. Mr Dunsden, who for seventeen years was a relieving officer at Leeds, has started that 90 per cent, of the runaway husbands are blue-eyed. "The call of adventure," he says, "sounds so loudly that it induces them to throw up their home ties." The Nordic races, Norwegian, Dane, Saxon, Celt, and Gaul—all blue-eyed peoples—were the adventurers among mankind. Blue-eyed races are in the minority, yet they control the earth. There is yet another side to the question. Out of 23,000 convicted criminals it has been determined by a famous criminologist, that the overwhelming majority had blue eyes. Two famous rascals, Landru and Rasputin, both had eyes of blue-grey. So had Dr. Crippen. Medical statistics show that blue eyes are generally possessed of excellent sight, which probably explains the fact that so many sailors and engineers have them.