Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-12-10
SPECTACLE WEARING
One Tenth Of Augustus. Population
Have Adopted Them.
an Optician Tells Of Some OF the Points Of the
Profession.


opGcian Here he has more trade than
in the average city of the size and the |
publishing houses are largely re-
sponsble for it,.
I'VE opticians of Augusta do more
real work in a week than in any city
of it's size in the United States" re-
marked one of the leading members of
the profession, Monday afternoon. per
haps many do not think the business
of fitting eyes to glasses is a profess
sion, but if not they are mistaken
There is as truly a great Science in the
art of, preserving the eyesight of man
kind. as there is in any other branch
of the treatment of.the ailments of the
human race. What is there above life
that is more to. be desiredsgt than ones
eyesight? Most everyone will answer
= that they had rather lose any other OF
their senses than that of their eye
- sight Then why is not the\man who
properly treats the eye and causes the
sight to be retained as truly doctor
as any NJ. D. in the business"
OF course there are many who do
not properly treat eyes and who sell
glasses that are not fit to be worn.
In the same way there are quack doc
tors in the medical profession.
Il should say that nearly one-tenth
oil w glasses.
said the dealer. MANY of them are
never seen in public with glasses on,
for they only wear them when reading
or working Many of those who are
employed in the publishing houses
wear glasses after the daylight is gone
and when the light from the electric OF
gas lights are turned on. Then comes
the strain on their eyes, and many'ol
those who realize that there is a stralf
have had a weak lens that hts thell
4. eyes, fitted to glasses for them, ant
these are worn as a sort of prevent4
tive If they did not wear thes
glasses and the constant strain con
tinued ON the eyes, they would 500
3
E~have ito wear a strong glass all IN
time. for the sight would soon becom
M impaired. Working on the black an
sa2: white lines of a paper is about TN
~ hardest on the eyes of any Wor
imaginable.
at is the same with many peopl
who can see well but who realize ths
reading strains their eyes. They sno
their good sense by having pair
}tglassesito assist their eyes in the
i,work, and thus preserve them. Al the
ss continue to read without them II
muscles become hard, and consequeh
Nv hard to fit. taking a strong glass.
us not the practice of wearii
glasses becoming more and more ge
FeraI every year," was asked.
Most certainly it is" replied
s3optician. TT was not so very maj
81 wears ago when a young person w
put ON glasses was accused OF ooials
from a reason Of improving the 1901
'-s-s'srcow the young people who need the
wear glasses so very generally Vi
there is no notice paid to IT. Even
s'rhildren in the grammar school W
would have had to squint anu pu
their noses in their books q Is" set
ago, are now wearfhg glasses ana IN
cam read with the ease OF any OH
children" rf
Of course the dealer had quite III
to say about the way glasses should
fitted, and condemned all VINO oo
use the proper methods of ascertain
lust how strong a glass peis
needed. and also about the deaAer
WIN sell glasses with both lenses afi
when the patient needs dihereii' NH
The good optician has wnat ne -
his test case. 1t is a case nheu "
~. single lenses of all kinds both coiic'
and convex. as well as prisms TOT
ting eyes that are not straigh'' INV
ewes thar have what Is kHo"n