The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-12-30
GIRLS WHO WEAR GLASSES.
A Boston Girls Experience with an ocv-
list OF Repute Fate Deasd.


list OF Reputs Fate Deded.
Boston or, Albany Journal
Boston girls begin early to re lect the
unmistakable Boston looks No matter
how giddy they begin. they end by wear.
ing a determined, Independent, very re.
Gently gloomed expression, as though
Their brains and their skin had Just been
sandpapered The really pretty ones are
under III, and wear their glossy hair "a
braids down their backs and sensible little
suits with everything taut about them.
Their compilations are fresh and rosy,
their eyes bright and they have the air OF
perfect health. After Is, regret to say
they are not so comely, unless heaven
has intended they should eclipse their
sister mortals and be known as bellies
Either the Boston girl is a victim of in
herited myopia or she early acquires
weakness of vision by too close applica-
tion to books, for their reputation for
being addicted to eyeglasses is too true.
Half the girls met wore them.
"What does it mean," | asked my
companion, as a child of 10 passed by
having on pair of gold bowed specta
c,es, "what does it mean that the eve
sight of Americans should be so defect.
ivey Ii this goes on. babies in arms will
be wearing spectaces before they can
talk.
My friend then told me of her expe.
rience with highly 'reputed oculist whom
she had consulted for an acute strain of
the eyes several years ago. She was al,
ways near-sighted. inherited the difficulty
but only used glasses occasionally. ne
night she read by tiickerng gas light
and brought on serious and painful in
lammation of the eyeball arous
remedies were tried to allay the trouble
without avail, and she then sent for the
oculist In question for advice lie ex
amined her thoroughly; sat her staring.
into brilliant flame, shut her up in dark,
ness pulled up first one eyeid then the
other and finally announced there was
grave inequality of vision, one eve wa,
doing all the work and the other was
losing its sight To make long story
short she was ordered not to look at d
book or do any work of any kind for a
month, and then he wou d write pre-
scrlption for spectacles. pectaeesl !"
she cried; mo, indeed If | must wear
anything shall wear eve glasses
The oculist smiled grimly and replied
eye glasses could not fit the vision. 1t was
impossible for an optician 10 maze them,
and she would eventually be blind if she
did not put on the ectacles He had
ordered them for a great many persons
who took immense comfort with them
now. But my friend is not Rostonese,
and she said. "Tll not join the spectacle
brigade at whatever hazard she did
rest her eyes and she cured them of the
acute strain. and then she proceeded to an
optcian and ordered two pair of eye,
| glasses--one TO use Mt theatres and other
| places where she W ,sned to see frtsn dis
lance, the other pair to wear when read
| ing. Neither to wear permanently This
was eight years ago. and she still has her
eyesight and in spite of what the ocusst
predicted it is stronger than then, and
she rarely has to use the second pair
of eye glasses She declares that parents
can not be too wary about in letting this
blem sh on their children's good looks
that half of the weak vision is caused by
carelessness, and when once the glasses
are put on the, can never be taken OIL