Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-01-17
EYEGLASSES AND MISERY.

Their Costliness AS Compared with Old
Reliable SpectRcles.
Most people have a prejudice against
spectacles, writes one who has suf-
fered 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 it generally happens that
when ones eyesight gives out and
everything grows wofully indistinct,
eyeglasses are resorted to. 80 much
more convenient than spectaclesi" said
a friend to us the other day. Eye
glasses are sort of compromise be-
tween youth and age, and as long as a
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 spec
tacles, that will stay on your face right
where you put them, than there is in a
dozen pairs of eyeglasses, which are al
ways 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 IAndy in January. The
glasses are always falling out, and IL
you happen to be near-sighted you
might hunt till the next Fourth of
July without finding them again.
When nothing else happens 10 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.
II you perspire, your nose has no at
traction for India rubber or celluloid.
Just as 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
rose 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 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 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 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 a relish for self-torment,
and owe themselves an awful grudge
for something. And people who have
good eyes, who can laugh at glasses
and the wearers of them, ought be de-
voutly thankful, and pray that the time
may yet be far off, when they shall fall
under the curse Of eye-glasses.-New
Orleans Picayune.