The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-01-09
EYEGLASSES AND MISERY.
Their Costliness as Compared with Old
Reliable Speotacles.

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 mark across the
ears. So it generally happens that
when ones eyesight gives out and
everything grows wofully indistinct,
more convenient than spectacles!" said
friend to us the other day; Eye
glasses are a sort of compromise be-
tween youth and age, and as long as
person wears eyeglasses he may be re-
garded as not SO very old. For when
old age Enthusiastically 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 specta-
cles. that will stay op 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 fraiI 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 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 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.
If you perspire, your nose has no at
traction for India rubber or celluloid.
Just as you are looking at something
and fattering 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. 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 buttonhole 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 Grip
pied 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 "catch" gives out, and SO on.
| A man is never safe 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 de,
pendent 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 relish for self-torment, and
owe themselves an awful grudge fol
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 off when they
shall fall under the curse of eyeglasses
-Nee0 Orleans Picayu1ae.