The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1821-1823, 1823-05-28
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| & 3 FFERS for sale, SPECTACLE,
~ in all theiryariety of pattern. and prices
S--o"Perior Brazil Pebble, mounted in gold
siNer' ana tortoise-shell frames Double.rve
'1pectaciez, set with green glasses; Tortoise.
go No. "iip douo.e joints; Single and Slid.
APg davf oNiser Euws, ser- uItT1 -Uesr wnTIe Do-
heInia plate; ConcaIe, Convex, and Parallel
green Glasses; best finished Steel and COM
mon do. ali prices Spectacles of the various
kinds set with green Glasses, and neatly pre-
pared with silk Shades, to screen weak or in
haxned eyes from too intense light, or dust,
An excellent article for persons travelling :;
Goggles for DO; Concave Eyeglasses for
near-sisht; green and white Concave and
Convex Glasses, all numbers; Microscopes !;
Megaiascopes; Opera aud Reading Glasses !;
large and small Lens elegant full silver
mounted Shagreen aud Tortoise-sheil Sprcta-
cle-Cases; Morocco, Steel, ana variety of
other do.
SPEcTAcLEs manufactured to any par
ticular pattern; also, neatly repaired, and old
Frames reset with superior Pebbles or Glasses
to suit any sight, at short notice.
The above, with those constantly finishing
from the Aianuiactory, form the best assert
nent ia Boston.
All Gold and Silver Spectacles will be
stamped with the makers name, and warrant
ed, aud may be exchanged AFTER trial OF sew
eral mouths, If they should not prove to suit
the sight, provided they are not injured. Per-
sons in the Country, or abroad, may be suited
by sending the Glasses they last wore, or
piece Of them, or word if they are the first they
have required, or the length Of time they have
worn glasses.
1t being "a fact, that bad or improper
Glasses tend greatly TO injare the eyes,-the
subject demands some few remarks. The ewes
OF many persons have been much injured by
wearing The glasses of older persons, because
they were at hand; also by wrong choice Of
Spectacles, and purchasing them OF Pedlars
and others who are unacquaiuted with
the article, and unable TO adapt the va
rlons glasses to the different eyes; others from
prejudice, or advice from persons whose eyes
do net require the aid Of glasses, have retrain-
ed without rejecting on the consequences Of
using glasses as long as they could possibly do
without them, have strained and hurt The
nerves of the eyes almost beyond remedy
The truth is, that the sight is best preserved
by making use of proper Glasses as soon as the
sight begins to fail, which will he discovered
by making a pen, threading a needle, or read
ing by candle-light. Glasses timely used will
relieve and preserve the sight, and contiue the
health of the eyes. The eyes need a guard at
particular iImes, as well as the head. The eff
feet Of bright sun on the snow, of dust or
cold winds, has distressed many eyes that
would not have suffered, had Green Glasse.
or Goggles been used, as occasion /, 9uired.
As TO the benefit those receive whose eyes
required the all of SpectacIes. is so great and
general, that it would be mere impertinence TO
expatiate upon it; and many other invaluable
blessings result from this art of improving the
sight, which the experience of mankind has
long since evinced-many could not be with
out them and not lie miserable
0~.F Orders received for Silver SpEc-
TAcLE Bows, with or without the Glasses, by
those who purchase TO sell again. The work.
manship will be warranted equal to the i'm
ported-the weight and proportion TO suit
much better, and at As low charges--with neat
Morocco Cases, made 10 suit the size oil the
SPcctacles. ALSO,