The herald., 1896-11-13
Presbyterian church. corner Chicago
and East First streets
THEY MAGNIFY THE EYES
Glasses Used by French Women In
crease Their Beauty Unduly

Only the woman who is hopelessly. ir-
reclaimably behind the times uses
lorgnon. Along with the tomahawk and
the waterfall. the lorgnon has now be-
come a thing of the harbaric past. Now
Of course, there We're lots of women who
truly were near-sighted. who honestly
depended on the lorgnons for true view
Of things and who will deeply resent be-
ing deprived of them. For these and IL
the rest of the feminine world who must
have a glass to see through there has
just come to town the new French mono
Gle and pince-nez.
For the nearsighted and weak of eye
they are great blessing and to any pref
ty face are excessively becoming The
eyeglass is just as strong or as weak
as your eyes require, and the two crys-
tai tense are set to a nose clasp of gold
No rim runs around the lenses them
selves, which are cut either oval or
square. while at the outside edge of the
right-hand lens a delicate gold handle
is fixed.
This is meant to hold the glasses by.
to set them off or on the nose with, and
from this handle hangs a narrow soft,
black silk ribbon. 1t passes about ones
neck, has strung on 1t three jeweled ring
guards and is long enough to let the
glasses hang little below the waist line.
BY the merest wrinkling of the nose
these pince-nez are twitched off, Just
as easily set on, and their wearers only
keep them in place very few moments
at time, for the glasses have the strong
est magnifying power in order to make
the eyes behind them appear almost alb
normally large and the lashes excess
lively long
Occasionally in place of passing the
ribbon about ones neck, it is caught by a
jeweled pin on the right shoulder, usual
ly fastened in with the pendent pin of
ones watch, and. by way of guards, three
big pearls or huge turquoise bead be-
tween two pierced cabochon emeralds
are strung on the ribbon. The same
women who run to this extravaganza
have the gold nose bridge to their
glasses lined with tiny diamonds. like
the eyeglass of the princess of Wales,
who is supposed to be responsible for this
fashion.
In spite of her reputation as the most
girlish looking grandmother in Europe,
the princess is feeling her age and in the
last six months has succumbed to the
use of eyeglasses, though she never
keeps them in place longer than five
minutes at a Tina for fear of soaring
the bridge of her royal nose with the
tight clasps.
Besides the pince-neZ, with jeweled
guards and ribbons. the jewelers. are Of
fering for sale exquisite little chatelaine
cases of velvet and leather all be-
sprinkled with gems and meant TO be
pinned on ones shoulder or hooked at
ones belt. Inside these cases are eye
glasses so artfully ground, polished. set
and colored that pair of the least at
tractive eyes. looking through them,
takes on most limpid chldlike express
sion.
Every one of these glasses shows a
vague opalescent tint of azure which
gives to the whites of the eyes an ador-
able tinge of blue, like that noticeable In
children. Then, by skillful grinding,
the iris and pupil are not only magnified
but given the brilliant jewel-like convex
form that is only to be seen in early
| youth and the beautiful eyes of genius
Some OF these costly glasses which are
all Partisan imported, are set in delicate
rims of Turquoise blue enamel. They
| have neither handle nor guard, but are
| meant, when not in use, to be slipped into
their very elegant cases.
| A year ago the misses and matrons
! who dearly love to exploit a novelty,
wore by long gold chains single read
| ing glasses, but they promptly were vul-
| CARRIED, as the heart locket has been,
and now the girl of the moment uses a
| monocle. She screws it right into her
unOffending eye socket or let's it dangle
| from silk ribbon round her neck.
! Her ribbon is always black. and where
| 1t is strung through the circle of glass is
fastened by one bright diamond. But the
| monocle is not worn for it's sweet self
| silOIie HOT Ill the ledSl as an ala TO VISION.
| Nearly all of them are very slightly col
| ored, in order to lend that effect so many
women crave of possessing one brown
| and one blue eye
| Latter-day seers announce that the
| girl endowed with the mismatched eyes
is fated to retain her beauty long after
| other debutantes have faded with fat
| matronhood, and that their lives are des-
| tined to be full of romantic masculine ad-
| miration. So, with these noble aims in
| view, is not the uncomfortable monocle
| worth Wearing?-Boston Globe.