The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-12-24
EYEGLAssEs AND MISERY.
Their oostiin~ss as Compared with old
 Reliable speotaeios.

Their Costiin~ss ss Compared with old
 Reliable spectacies.
 From the New Orleans Ptcayune.l
 Most people have prejudice against spectacles. writes one who has suffered with lame eyes. They make one look so old. They spoil the expression of the eyes. and leave a mark across the nose, and are uncomfortable over the ears. So 1t generally happens that when ones eyesight gives ou. and eve rything grows wofully indistinct, eye glasses are resorted to. "so much more convenient than spectacles" said friend to us the other day. Eyeglass- es are a sort of compromise between youth and age. and as long as a person wears eyeglasses he may be regarded as not SO very old. For when old age unmistakabiy sets in then we cease to think so 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 is in dozen pairs of eyeglasses. which are always flying off on business 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 near-sighted you might hunt till the next Fourth of " without finding them again.
 nothing else happens to them fhe spring breaks and they get under foot, and somebody steps on 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 can't keep the slippery things on your nose to save you. N
 If you perspire, your nose has no at traction for India rubber or celluloid. Just as you are looking a something and flattering yourself that you have got exactly the right foe1l9 down go the glasses. and you haveto rub your nose up, and stick themSn again, and look quick, for the same thing is going to be repeated again and again. An other characteristic. of eyeglasses is the fact that when they are wanted most they turn up missing. You may look and hunt, hunt and look; and when you don't need them you will find them hanging serenely to your button-hole or resting composedly on the table at your side. As an item of expense they are formidable. Your boots do not cost you any more per year. The cigars you smoke are not more expensive by the month. They are always in a crippled condition. They need the doctor con- tinually, and you no sooner get the spring mended than the bow breaks. and when that trouble is remedied you lose one glass, and by the time that is fixed the, catch, gives out, and so on. A man ts never safe with less than three pairs of eyeglasses at D time-un- less he wishes to. be left without sight. They are the, most perplexing, unrelia- ble of all friends. and the person who tsvdependennurpn them Is to be pitisd. Those who wear them for style e-and we are sorry to say that there are some such consummate fools in the world must have a relish for self-torment, and owe themselyes, an awful grudge for something. And people who have good eyes, who can laugh at glasses and the >wearers of, them. ought to be devoutly thankful and pray that the time may yet be afar 6ffAwhen they shall fan under the curse of eyeglasses.