The Dickinson press., 1883-09-01
EYES THAT SEE NOT,
Being ofthe Kind That are Exported
to Fill Vacancies.

Being ofthe Kind That are Exported
to Fill Vacancies.
1--WE sell from 100 to $50 artificial eyes
q year," said a Philadelphia optician,
land the demand seems to grow greater
every year. There is a very large nominal
profit On these goods, for they sell at$lO
to SIS each. according to grade, but
when you consider the trouble and an
noyance the fitting involves and the
time it consumes you can easily see that
they are we'll worth the price charged.
We never have a customer that is salts
fed with his new eye at the first Crying
on" Within a day or two he comes
back and claims thatthe color is a shade
darker than the good eye, or that they
don't match in some other way. There
is only n thing for it. We must 20
over our whole stock until the eye is
matched, and our time and trouble must
count for something. We have a num-
Der of steady customers who always buy
their eyes of us and bring them to US to
be cleaned and repaired.
"Where do you get artificial eyes?"
"They are made at %Stutzebach in the
Thuringian Forest, in Germany, and
the works employs large force of skilled
workmen. 1t is wonderful how closely
they initiate the human organ of sight.
1 don't believe there is an eye that
cannot be almost perfectly matched"
"Do artificial eyes wear out?"
ooh, yes, an eye wears out in about two
stances in the tear duct eventually eat
off TIM pn1Soh or1 thu r,nar o,,rfo M ho-
comes rough and requires to be repol-
ished."
eve have some NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
and excitable people-who are constant
ly changing their eyes, and not at all to
the betterment Of their appearance.
Others provide themselves with several
eyes and use them alternately. Their
Wearers must take them outat night and
keep them in clean water, for the So
c~retions of the eye would otherwise
gather upon them. Moreover, the
muscles that keep them in place require
frequent rests"
"What, are the eyes capable of move
ment?"
"One of the great prerequisites in the
removal of an eye. when it becomes
necessary, is to leave the surrounding
muscles intact. This is generally done
by experienced oculists, but sometimes
cases come to US in which the muscles
have been remorsefully destroyed, and
then we find it almost impossible to
make the artificial substitute look natu-
raj. know a pretty young lady whose
glass eye will stare stolidily and solemn
ly at you, as if the owner were inwardly
accusingyou ofsome grave offence, while
her natural eye is twinkling merrily a
the joke that she is listening to or at
something funny that she sees. Once
when she wal looking into her pocket.
hook for some change with her good eye
that terrible artificial eye twisted Itself
around in my direction and glared al
me with a malevolence that frightened
me. 1t was only then that I discovered
that it was a glass eye. for it was very
we'll matched. When 1 subsequently
examined the young lady's case I found
that nothing could be done for her. She
must go through life subject to all kinds
of Misunderstanding, just because a
surgeon who didn't understand his bust
ness had bungled owe the operation on
her eye. l know also, an old gentleman
whose right eye beams with intelligence
and %amiability, while his left glares
gloomily forth with an air of extreme
disgust and dissatisfaction with the
orld."-[Philadelphia Times.