Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-10
WHEN G..-oES SHOULD BE
WORM.

How man hates TO put Oh E!s ~
spectacles He will struggle With ms
ewes Tor weeks and months, bathing
them in all the washes and lotions
known to the druggist. and then VIII
conclude that salve is the correct
thing. After he has found out how
useless that is. he gives up smoking, Us
that must be the cause OF the dlihculty,
since there seems to be nothing else
the matter. 1t does not occur TO MN
that old age will creep up on any man
who lives long enough, and that one o.
the certain marks OF the sere and yer
low leaf is the failure of this and that
organ to discharge the functions thai
were easy and natural in the halcyoh
days of youth.
But ii n man hates to add artificial to
natural lenses, how bitter is the fight
of a woman. She knows as if by IN
tuition that when once she surrenders
she will never be able to return to the
work OF her life with the nose naked OF
steel and crystal adornment, and she
waits Just as long as she can. Then she
goes to an opticjsn in the earliest hours
of the morning, when th gre is likely to
be no one else there-certainly no one
will know her, OF ever see her again;
and there she confdes to the gentle
manly salesman that she wants to see
if there is anything the matter with her
eyes. He knows his business we'll
enough to tell her after the most gentle
examination that she only needs tenn
porary relief and that her eyes are as
good as they ever were.
Then he fits her with the pair Of
glasses that will look best on her pretty
face, and sends her from the store al
most glad that she is getting old. Still,
she will disport this new adornment a
little differently from any OF her other
trinkets. She will not wear it in society
and will have been devotee OF glasses
perhaps for years before her dearest
friend knows she has taken to wearing
them.
Old Roger Bacon is generally &C.
credited with the invention Of spec
tacles, at least Of the pattern now used
by persons Of failing or defective eye
sight. 1t seems TO be more than likely
that his work in this direction, as early
as 1899, originated the custom of wear
ing glasses, at least in the western
OF Pisa, has been credited with the same
discovery, but his pretentions-o or
rather those Of his adherents, for he
has never been heard to say word on
the subject himself-are disputed by
students, who think Salvinus Armatus
was the real father of the spectacle.
But as both these benefactors fourished
later than Bacon, and as he is known tc
have mentioned the work, they orc
probably much in the position of the
gentlemen who invented the telephone
after Professor Bell had shown then
the way.
Away back of them, as early as 1888
there was a saracen named AlhuZen, O.
fragrant memory for more than one
good deed, who prepared q pane O.
glass and ground it in such d manner
as to bring the fine lines on his scroll
nearer to his age dimmed eyes, but he
never knew Of the graceful rim and the
convenient bow that has made the
modern spectacles things almost o
beauty. And lest his friends shouli
be too much pulled up over the CLAIM
that the best of all inventions were
evolved by others than the christian
nations of the earth, let it be stated
that for unknown centuries the Chimes,
have been reading their heathenisl
characters through glasses which die
FOR them all the best opticians can d
| to-day, barring the convenience will
which the modern glasses can be worn
For the matter OF that, the Chimes
have been accredited with first knowl
edge of nearly every valuable metho'
OF article the world has known.
Among all the senses that have bee
given human beings there is none S
valued as sight. Speech may be lost
and there are some few people in til
kingdom who would be positively bette
il that atiiiction should fall upon then
They can make amends for deafness b
rejecting that no more than a 1.-THE c
what is said in the world is worth hea1
ing, and since the Chicago alderme
have concluded that clean streets al
not needed, they will be better off Will
out the sense of smell.
But we all want to see. There
nothing so pitiful as school-room c
children not one of whom has seen tn
light Of sun. There is no substitut
for the loss of sight. And so when es
cessive work, long hours of toll unde
the Pickering lights that man has mad
in the futile attempts to turn night int
day, or when approaching age la
made inroads on the sight, there
nothing so necessary as the effort to X
enforce the wanting strength in d.
possible ways. Science has made TIL
easier in the case Of failing sight tina
in that of any other organ. AS tim
chills the marrow in old bones, as tim
takes from the nerves and muscles {
the arm, and as time saps somewha
pigments of color and turns our hal
a plaintive gray, SO time tiattens til
lens of the natural eye, draws it's curve
into more rigid and .straighter line.
and refuses the vitality that could ono
have repaired any waste. The ey
has grown weaker, just as all othe
members OF the body do when the
have seen the zenith of power come an
80. .... ...
All that is needed is that anothe
lens be placed before that older al