Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-01-29
EYEGLASSES FOR NEW WORKERS.
The Costly 6cuiist, Cheaper Opticlan and
Cheapest Corner stand.

OptlclanS crowd this town almost as
they crowd Boston You may count six
or eight in two blocks of East Twenty
third street, and there are scores up and
down Broadway, while dry goods shops
and corner a...ads sell eyeglasses to those
that will buy. 1t costs from 70 cents to
neatly AS many dollars to be fitted with
first pair of eyeglasses. Those that go
to the oculist for n prescription as pre-
hmlnary to putting on glasses must pay
him from $40 to $25, or if the eyes need
treatment from $50 to $100, according
to the nature and length of the treat
ment and the accustomed charges of the
oculist
When the patient is ready to buy his
glasses, he takes the prescription of the
ocullst to an optician and orders them
Being made to order especially for the
patient, they may cost anywhere from
80. 80 to $15. Persons with complicated
disorders of the eye really wear from
two to five pairs of glasses in one. Some
prescriptions call for two separate pairs,
and no prudent man is content to have
only one pair Of glasses by him, since
NAN ANH' ~ a''' pihSiV pan may iiiNtil tno
loss of days work or considerable in
jury to the eyes.
The most careful opticians refuse to
examine the eyes of persons that come
after eyeg lasses, perhaps because the ocu-
lists do not send patients with prescrip-
tions to opticians that undertake to per-
form the work Of the oculist The most
expensive way to purchase glasses is
through the oculist and tho optician.
Some very careful persons always visit
an oculist before making change in the
power of their glasses, Others simply go
ON increasing the strength as need seems
to direct. II is good deal cheaper to
buy of the oculist-optioian and some
persons believe it to be quite us safe as
the more expensive method. 1t is entire
ly probable that for ordinary conditions
of the eye the oculist-optician serves
we'll enough. Most persons that do not
guess at their own needs in the matter
of glasses either go to an oculist-optician
and have him fit them out at from $2 80
to $15 or consult friend. This last is
the cheapest method, and it is favorite
one with thousands The friend, who
wears glasses, learns that the other is
having some diff
his own glasses
serve the need,
optician or som
glasses and gets
saves the fee of t
oculist -optician.
Many persons buy eyeglasses of the
dry goods shops. They sell them at from
so cents to 81, and they look just like
those that the opticians sell for So. so.
They are perhaps as safe for those whose
affections of the eyes are not complicat-
ed, but they do not last SO long as those
of the opticians. They break at the del
icate joints. The frames, if they have
any, are brittle, and the tiny screws are
weak or are pat in SO badly that they
crack the lenses. The dry goods shops,
however, cannot compete with the cor
ner stands for the trade of great many
persons There are plenty of old fellows
that have been buying their glasses for
almost nothing at corner stands any
time these 40 years. They never spent
penny ON oculists, and they despise
opticians. The fact is that science of
the eye has grown up since they began
to use glasses, and having started with
out its aid they keep ON in like fashion.
1t is only because they are not troubled
with complicated affections of the eyes
that they are able to preserve their
sight in defiance of the modern special
st.-New York Sun.
Lady Jeunes Lectures.
Every now and then we hear from
subject. She tells us how wicked socie-
ty can be and is, and then, after she
has brought a curious crowd about her,
attracted by the promising hope of more
scandalous disclosures, she lectures very
simply and to the point. Her last work,
Lesser Questions, which is attracting
a good deal of attention, is series Of
characteristic studies upon the evolution
of women.
Lady Jeune is well known to all of
us as the Mrs. Ponsonby de Tompkyns
of George Du Mauriers clever skits in
Punch. She is the drawing room dip
lomat, somebody has said, who can en-
gineer all Mayfair successfully enough
through her rooms. She has led her hus-
band in his profession of the law to
heights he would most certainly never
have attained without her, and she has
kept all her claims to distinction we'll
in evidence at the proper moment
Munsey's
Huge Apple Crop.