The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-12-15
ANTICS OF EYEGL NSSES.
They Are Not to Re Compared With Old
Reliable Spectacles.

They Are Not to BE Compared With Old
Reliable Spectacles.
Most people have a prejudice
against s~pectacles, writes n who
has suffered with lame eyes. They
make n look so old. They spoil
the expression of the eyes and leave
a mark across the nose and + un-
comfortable over the ears. So it gen.
orally happens that when ones eye
sight gives out and everything grows
woefully indistinct eyeglasses are re-
sorted to. so much more convcn-
lent than spectacles, said a friend
to us the other day. Eyeglasses are
a sort of compromise between youth
and age, and as long as a person
wears eyeglasses he may be regard
ed as not so very old, for when old
age Enthusiastically sets in then we
cease to think much of appearances
and cry out for comfort, and there
is more real comfort in one pair of
spectacles that will stay on your face
right where you put them than there
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which are always flying off on bust.
ness of their own just when you
want them.
Eyeglasses are made on purpose to
break. They are always catching
into something. The springs are
frail as a spiders web. The bows
are as brittle as molasses candy in
January. The glasses are always
falling out, and if you happen to be
nearsighted you might hunt till the
next Fourth of July without finding
them again. When nothing else hap
pens to them, the spring breaks, and
they get underfoot, and somebody
steps Oh them, and you are a couple
of dollars out and as good as blind,
with no dog to lead you in the paths
of safety. In hot weather you cant
keep the slippery things on your
nose to save you.
If you persplrc, your nose has no
attraction for india rubber Or cellu-
lOid. just a you are looking at
something and %flattering yourself
that you have got exactly the right
focus down go the glasses, and you
have to rub your nOse up and stick
them on again and look quick, for
the same thing is going to be repeat
ed again and again. Another char
acteristic of eyeglasses is the fact
that when they are wanted most
they turn up missing. You MAJ 'ok
and hunt, and hunt and look, and
when you don't need them yOu will
find them hanging sercnely to your
buttOnhOle or resting cOlnposedly
on the table at your side. AS an item
of expense they T formidable,
Your boots do not cost you any more
per year. The cigars you smoke arc
not more expensive by the month.
They are always in a crippled cOndi
ton. They need the doctor continu
ally, and you no oOncr get the spring
mended than the bow breaks, anG
when that trouble is remedied yor
lose one glass, and by the time thai
is fixed the catch gives out, and sc
on. 4 man is never safe with les,
than three pairs Of eyeglasses at {
time unless he wishes to be withOu'
sight. They are the most perplcxing
unreliable of all friends, and the per
son who is dependent upon them i
to be pitied. Those who wear then
for ~style-and we are sorry to sa,
that there are om such conSum
mate fools in the world--must hav'
relish for self torment and ow,
themselves an awful grudge TO
something. And people who hav'
good eyes, who can laugh at glasse
and the wearers of them, ought to b.
devoutly thankful and pray that tn
time may yet be afar off when the,
shall fall under the curse of eye
glasses. New Orleans Picayune.