The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-07-15
THE ROANOKE TIMES SUNDAY. JULY Is
LOCK IN THE MIRROR.
a Fashionab!y Gowned Woman
Becomingly ALFRED
Becomes Con.picuous by a Crazy Fitted
Pair of speotaoles or
Eyeglasses

At the present time how few wear
their spf c'acles for continued period.
Every few months changes are made,
until at asst the sight becomes so de-
fective the wearer of q asses ia unable
to see TO road at all without SD, csacles.
This should not DO the case. Where
the eyes are affected fr,m natural
causes alone and glasses OF superior
character are fitted in frames suited to
the face, and tho adjustment OF tho
lenses is perfect, annulling, no more
and no less, than the exact detect, the
sight is preserved intact until nature
makes another inroad upon the vision,
but notice, if you will, how many i'll.
fitting frames are notice able upon the
faces of spectacle wearere, and does IL
not naturally follow that in such an
event the lenses become descentered?
The man who is stickler for a per
feet fitting garment, hat CIR gloves will
have an abomiuable fitting pair of spec
tscles sraddliug his nose A fashion
ably gowned woman, otherwise becom-
ingly attired, becomes conspicuous by q
crazy fitting pair OF spectacles or eve
glasses, adjusted owl like. over a beau.
,iful shaped no,o Observing this, can
you but think that an ill-ftting frame
must accompany cheap lenses. unsuited
to the eyes? 1t is wonderful the care
lessness persons will practices with re.
spect to so important subject. Look
in the mirror and discover whether or
not the pupils of the eye come direct
line with the glasses in your spectacles
just stop to consider that your reading
Spectacles should fit we'll down over the
nose almost onto the cheek, SO that you
get the greatest angle over the top of
the frames, least underneath, and direc,
vision through the centre of the lenses;
then examine your distant spectacles,
the frame OF which should fit prompt up
onto the nose, close up to the eyes, so
that the pupils of the eyes strike the
exact centers of the glasses If you are
presbyopic or hypermetropic, in other
words, FAR sighted" or "old sighted"
as commonly termed, do not use one
pair of glasses for your near and far
point. if both are defective. Meth r do
80 it you are myopic or near sighted.
In such instances one pair of glasses
viii not anewer for all purposes, the
sight having its proximum (near), and
remotum (far poiu,) OF vision and while
nature provides "a mechanism self-ad
Unstable medium in the eve for these
TWO points, no one set of glasses can do
1t. Hold your glasses up before YOUR
eyes and the light, at arms length,
eHcJ CuSH1 W Ot, IL perlrCt, rs ul9pQ3-
nous as the atmosphere. Next, try your
eyes separately with and without your
glasses, and sec how we'll you can read.
How many use spcctacles aud yet do
not SEQ perfectly, yet imagine they do
so. Now, if your frames set awry on
your face they do not suit you. DR..
Matthez docs not claim to do wonders,
but he does understand his profession
and doesn't make haphaz.rd work in
the glasses or spectacle frame Each
case is separate study by itself; each
and every frame is made. fitted and
suited to each individual face. He
uses no cheap work of any kind. Every.
thing is OF the most perfecs material
science and art can produce or work.
manship make. He is thorough and ex-
haustive in his examination No specu.
lative, machine or guess work. It Ia
mechanical, matthew atical
Now, as it will cost you nothing for a
preliminary test OF your eyes. see DR..
Matthez while he is at the Ponce de
Leon, room 90, parlor floor. II your
glasses suit you, if your frames At. If
your lenses are ground and conferred
and made OF the best material he will
tell you, and IL not it will be demon.
strated practically. Dr. Matthez has
devoted lifetime to his profession-a
mechanlcal one, and has mastered it,
and there are thousands to testify to his
thoroughness.