Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-30
SpectacIes and Eyeglasses.

From the New " rk 1imes.l
-Four out of every five persons who
wear glasses wear eyeglasses. The fifth
wears spectacles. Ninety-nlne in every
hundred who consult either oculist or
optician are advised to wear spectacles.
As a rule four-fifths refuse to accept the
advice given. The only reason given is
that eye glaG SEES look more stylish than
spectacles. TIE reason given is that
''the glasses fit my eyes better than any
spectacles [ could find" Some foolish
young ladies and gentlemen adopt eye
glasses because they think it gives them
distiugue appearance. Their use gives
the wearer an opportunity to attach to
the COS .ume bit of iewelry they could
not otherwise sport-a delicate gold
chain, which may be worn SO that the
ear is made resting place for the con-
Meeting link between eye-glass and vest
or dress. With this class the eye glass
is of no earthly use except as a means of
injuring the eye. Such glasses have no
magnifying power, and are as valueless
to the weak or deformed eye as the sin
gle eye-glass. Single glasses are worn
only by Englishmen, Anglomaniacs and
idiots. The party who wears one-it is
always man-may DO at once set down
as a snob. There will be no mistake. A
sane man needs a single eye-glass about
as much as cat needs two tails, or as a
tramp Saratoga trunk. As few ''men
about town. wear the single eye-glass
and few actors wear them on the stage,
they have attained-a certain amount of
popularity, mainly among the classes
mentioned. The idiots include ''dudes. +"
So popular have eyeglasses become
among those who are compelled to wear
| glasses to aid defective sight that the use
of spectacles is confined mainly to elderly
people and to boys and girls. The fact
that young children who are afflicted
with troubles of the eye invariably wear
spectacles is known to every observing
man. The fact carries with it a lesson.
That is that the child does what the ocu-
list tells it or its parents to do. The
person OF maturer years, unless he or
she is blessed with an unusual quantity
of common sense, doesn't follow instruc-
tions. BE or she generally disregards
orders and wears the eyeglasses instead
of spectacles. Fashions DEGREES that
the former are most stylish over-rule ad-
vice of oculist or physician. The advice
is given because the spectacle is very
much better in every way for the person
| afflicted with any disease of the eye.
| They are easier to wear, and do not in
jure the nose in any way, which the
pinching of the eye-glass frame does
sometimes. The frame of the spectacle
is desirable because it holds the glass
firmly in its place. The eye glass is in a
constant state of unrest. AS a result,
particularly where the glass is either a
double convex or double concave lens,
the magnifying power is constantly vary
ing. The variation is slight, to be sure,
but it exists to a sufficient degree to
cause injury to the eye. That is one of
the reasons why people who wear eye
glasses find it necessary to purchase new
glasses of constantly increasing power.
They generally ascribe the result to old
age. 1t isn't advance in years so much
as it is eyeglasses that causes the trou-
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