The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-13
EYEGLASSES AND MISERY.
Their COstliness as Compared with
Old Reliable Spectacles.

Old Reliable Spectacles.
New Orleans Picayune.
Most people nave a prejudice against spec
tacles, 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 I'M
comfortable over the ears. So It generally
happens that when ones eyesight gives out
ana everything grows wofully indistinct,
eyeglasses are reSorted to. $50 much more
convenient than spectacles," said a friend to
us the other day. Eyeglasses are asort OF
long as a person wears eyeglasses he may
be. regarded as not so very old. For when
old age u~nmistakable sets In then we cease
to think so much of appearances, and cry
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 a 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
January. The glasses are always falling
out, and IL you happen to be near-sighted
you might hunt till the next 4th of July
without finding them again. When nothing
else happens to them the spring breaks
and they get under foot, and somebody
steps on them and you are a couple of dol
lars 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.
If you perspire, your nose has no attrac-
ton for India rubber or celluloid. Just as
you are looking at something and hatter-
ing 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 repeated again and
again. Another 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 Sc
renely to your buttonhole or resting COM
posedly 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 ex-
pensive by the month. They are always in
a. crippled condition. They need the doctor
continually, 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 "catcl gives out; and so on. A man
is never 81 e with less than three pairs Of
eyeglasses at a time-unless he wishes to
be left without sight. They are the most
perplexing, unreliable of all friends, and
the person who is dependent upon them is
to be pitied. Those who wear them for
style-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 themselves an awful grudge for
something. And people who nave 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 off when they shall fall under the
curse of eyeglasses.