The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-02-16
ANTICS OF EYEGl ASSES.
They Are Not to Re Compared with Old
Reliable Spectacles.

They Are Not to Re Compared With Old
Reliable Spectacles.
Most people have a prejudice
against spectacles, writes n 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 lose and are I'm.
comfortable over the ears. So it gen.
orally happens that when ones eye
sight gives out and everything grows
woefully indistinct eyeglasses r re-
sorted to. $50 much more conven.
lent than spectacles, said a friend
to us the other day. Eyeglasses are
a sort of compromise between youth
and age, and as long as a person
wears eyeglasses he may be regard
ed as not so very old, for when old
age Enthusiastically sets in then VIC
cease to think 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 a dozen pairs of eyeglasses,
which are always flying off On bust,
ness of their own just when you
want them.
Eyeglasses L 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
nearsighted you might hunt till the
next Fourth of July without finding
them again. When nothing else hap
pens to them, the spring breaks, and
they get underfoot, and somebody
steps on them, and you are q 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
attraction for india rubber or cellu-
loid. 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 RIB your most up and stick
them on again and look quick, for
the same thing is going to be repeat.
ed again and again. Another char
acteristic of eyeglasses is the fact
that when they are wanted most
they turn up missing, You may look
and hunt, and 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 + al ways in a crippled condi
ton. They need the doctor continu
ally, and You no sooner get the sprins
mended than the bow breaks, ant
when that trouble is remedied yol
lose one glass, and by the time tina
is fixed the catch gives out, and 81
on 4 man is never safe with les,
than three pairs of eyeglasses at
time unless he wishes to be withou
sight. They are the most perplexing
unreliable of all friends, and the per
son who is dependent upon them i
to be pitied. Those who wear then
for style-alld we are sorry to sa.
that there are some such consum
mate fools in the world-must hav,
a relish for self torment and ow'
themselves an awful grudge fo
something. And people who hav'
good eyes, who can laugh at glasse
and the wearerS of them, ought to b
devoutly thankful and pray that tn
-. time may yet be afar off when the.
shall fall under the curse of eye
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