The times., 1901-03-31

/ whether the CgCs matches color. IT is
! very few people who Will notice if II
{ doesn't. OF course We don't send people
4 off with q green artificial eye to match a
| blue eye. but | have known people with
! eyes that were mistits in color and even
! their relatives would not know IT,"
| 1t is general conception among people
/ who do not wear artificial eyes them
selves that they are round like marbles.
/ Quite the reverse is really the case and
! if it were not for the pupils and the iris.
| they would have the appearance of irni-
| tation seashclls. And they are thin shells
| of porcelain followed into the shape OF
! the eyeball and with the iris blown in the
| centre. Some of the most expensive have
| the white about the iris dafntily hand
| painted and with the veins distinctly
| showing. For the deep hazel eyes there
! is q delicate pink shading. although this
| is only used for the eyes of negroes. the
| yellow or greenish yellow being more COM
Brown eyes are easy TO fit" said the
| eye man. when the W oman had observed
| this. They are usually one color, with
| the pupil simply aEdarker shade. It's the
| greys aud grey-ha zeiS Sd nd the bIuc-greys
! there is trouble ahoutss You can see how
| varied their markings fare. and how diff
| ferent each eye is rom all the rest. me
| eyes may be exactly the same shade, but
| if the markings are different they will
| look different We have our greatest trou-
| bic fitting grey-eyed people. and some
! times we have to- send abroad to have
| special eyes made for them. 1t seems to
| me there is no end to the varieties of
| grey eyes. And TREY are all as different
| as can be-"
How long do people wear their glass
| eyes?" asked the Woman. tearing herself
from the fascination Pfthe trays.
That all depends. said the eye man.
| 1T would be Impossible to say any given
| time. Anywhere frefp three years to two
months / order sixseyes a year fer an
actress and there is s dramatic reader
who buys an eye exery three months.
Again some people wear an eye three
years, and still it will not be badly worn.
| OF course, the actress is very particular
| because she is before the f0otlights all
| the time. aud the slightest du1lness would
show She has practiCed until she uses
the eye very well, and no one would
KNOWN fact. / believe very few people
do know-that she has an artificial eye.
She can turn It without the least trou-
BILE Her eyes are never worn when she
| lays them aside but she does not take
any chances on them.
The eye man further explained that the
eyes were taken out of their sockets
every night and put back in the morning,
the owner using little bent instrument
like a bodkin for the operation. The eye
man demonstrated the trick on his own
eye with ghastiy reality.
DO eyes ever break" asked the
woman, Mortified at the mere suggestion.
To the eye man this was evidently an
everyday consideration. "Oh. yes. he
said in matter of fact tone, they often
break. particularly il 1t is very cold
weather. People enter warm room
from the cold outside and rush up 10 a
hot stove. The sudden change is very
apt to affect the eye; crack itgoes. and
out drop the pupils We have Il good
many cofnDlaincs from Michigan On that
very thing. With their cold weather eyes
are often breaking. Down here Of course,
it seldom occurs.
ITO make mp for it we have a trouble
in Chicago which is reported nowhere
else. After the eyes have been worn
short time the line of the open lid is
marked by a streak Of iirt which is
ground into the porcelain. The dirt
which gets into the eyes wears them out
much faster than they could he worn in
the country. IT grindS into the polished
surface, lesvinS little dGIl spccks.
We'll | don't see how people turn these
eyes, said the woman, s;iIl wondering.
The eye man laughed. IT'S the easiest
trick in the world when you know how,
but it takes q lot Of practice. They have
a scheme now which is being very gem
orally adopted in eye operations in the
East When an eye is removed a tiny
glass bail is set into the socket and the
flesh drawn over it. When this has grown
in place il makes "A bunch over which the
glass eye sets and by means Of which Il
can be moved with the greatest ease. 1t
gives the person natural control of the
artificial eye, which is moved uncon-
seiously and in harmony with the natural
eye.
"oh. dear, said the woman. Just think
OF it" aud she4went away wishing she
might wear an artificial eye
1T would be such fun 60 pick one out,
she told a friend lateT.-The Chicago
Chronicle.