The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-06-26
our S~pectacles.


BY REV. DE WITT TArN.n
A man never looks moro 81
than when he takes snset ulgalhaa
from his pocket, opens Il vss cas-
lens, sets it astride his los anlp f.
you IN the eye. | have seen anS ,o0s
oVerawed by such a demonstrace
1eellng that a man who conld banel
glasses in that way must hi nandle
anything. We have known s9usl g
plain face; who, by placing iaay o.
ment OF this kind on the BRIDE @ y
nose could give an irresista6;a = 0si
and by one glance around tbs
would transiix and eat up the ba.suOn
a dozen old bachelors. Var's q
There are men, who, tho,ol
never read a word of Latin or cr S'sf
have, by such facial appcndaoe reg h
made to look so classical. thai ven
ment they gaze on you, 0 on;vau 40
If you had been struck by Sonhosls Y
Jupiter. We strongly suspect ~. y
pair of glasses on a ministar,s Aas :
would be worth to him abos,
three hundred and seventh, a'
dollars and forty-two cents
ditlonal salary. Indeed we hau,
known men who had kept thai, y
ishes quiet by this spectacular nal par
If Deacon Jones criticised, or Ms re- ~
about gossiped, the dominic woula !,
them in range, shove his glasses fy5o q
the tip of his nose close up 10 HE asa
brows, and ~concentre all the maisS,.
of his nature into a look thatconsnmaa
all opposition easier than the burni0a
glass of Archimedes devoured the r..
man ships.
But nearly all, young and old. near.
sighted and far-sighted, look throurb
spectacles. By reason of our nraEn
dices, or education, or temperameut
things are apt to come to us marni6ad
or lessened, or distorted. We all 81
things differently.
Some of US wear blue spectacle
and consequently everything is blue
All is wrong in churches, wrong n
education, wrong in society. An IN
digested slice of corned beef has Gov.
cred up all the bright prospects Of tne
world. A drop of vinegar has extin.
guished a star. We understand all the
variations of a growl. What makes
the sunshine SO dull, the foliage 50
gloomy, men so heavy, and the world
so darkg Bile speetacles, my dear.
An unwary young man comes 10
town. He buys elegant ~silk-pocket
handkerchiefs for twelve cents. and
diamonds at a dollar store. He takes
a greenback with an x on it, as 4 sure
sign hat it is ten dollars, not knowing
that there are counterfeits. He taxed
five shares of silver mining stock in
the company for developing tbs re-
sources of the moon. He supposes thai
every man that dresses well is d gent
tleman. He goes to see the lions no.
knowing that any of them viii bite.
He has an idea that fortunes lie thickly
around, and all he will have to do is 10
Stoop down and pick one up. Having
been brought up where the greatest
dissipation was a blacksmith-shop on
a rainy day, and where the gold on the
wheat is never counterfeit, and buck
wheat fields never issue false stock,
and brooks are always current and
blossoms are honest when they prom
Use to pay, he was ~unprepared to resist
the allurements Of city life. A sharper
has tieeced him, a p%oliceman's billy
has struck him on the head, or a pris'
on's turnkey bids him a rough Good
night"
What got him into all this trouble
Can any moral optieian inform US
Green goggles, my dear.