The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-03

that made conditions worse, for the girl
blinked like an owl in the sunshine and
he couldn't love her blinking. OF course
he might have turned the gas down first,
but he didn't think of it. He's a bachelor
today"
Give me just moment the married
woman said when the question was pro-
pounded to her. Then she polished pair
of crystals that were held before her
eyes with an almost invisible gold clamp.
You see am somewhat biased on this
ly, they never have interfered seriously
with affairs of the heart, or I should say
with. my affair of the heart.
AN answer to the question would de-
pend much ON the sort of glasses worn.
There are spectacles that hook over the
ears, there are those like wear, and
there are monocles and lorgnettes. You
seldom see woman with monocle, but
I have known one or two. Were they mar
ried? No, I must say they were not, but
| do not know that the monocle had any
carried more for style than use, so sup
pose we may strike that off the list. That
leaves spectacles and the pince nez.
Now the pince nez did not prevent
happiness for me, although I must admit
1t was in the way occasionally until my
husband became accustomed to it. And
right there is the secret of success in
counting a girl who wears glasses. You
must learn how. 1t is really no more
difficult than to learn to shake hands
properly. and it is getting to be quite as
trouble with their eyes
ITO love a girl who wears. glasses
makes a man more gentle and gallant He
cannot be boisterous with her. He must
handle her tenderly-I was going to say
like basket of eggs, but the metaphor is
somewhat homely. With a little practice
he can learn to make love to her properly.
My husband has learned Here the
graceful matron's face was suffused with
pink.
Now as to spectacles. The girl who
NC hon fiIl of har
pearance as she might be. Eyeglasses
serve as well and they are much prettier
In faet, l have known girls who looked
prettier with them than without Them and
you will find good many who wear them
simply for appearance. The girl who is
careless about how she looks is going to
have hard time getting suitors and
keeping them, whether she wears specta-
cles or not.
"A monocIe Or a lorgnette would put
damper on love if it was used at critical
moment. Of that I have no doubt 1t
would give young man a chill to have a
girl adjust her face to single glass or
poke q tortoise shell lorgnette before him
when he was saying sweet things to her.
1 imagine he would feel like a strange
animal on exhibition.
Il believe courtship depends altogether
On the young woman and the young man.
I don't think glasses enter into it at ALL"
Said the spinster:
If a man is cad enough to let spectacIes
interfere with love it is a good thing for
the girl. He would be brute Of a huS
band" That was all.
Said the old man, still a bachelor:
Women are all charming. God bless
them, whether they wear glasses or not.
Love is blind, you know, and the real
lover will not permit little thing like
glasses to come between him and the girl
of his choice"
An effort was made to learn from
woman who conducts matrimonial agen-
cy if bespectacled women were In the
majority on her lists. but she would only
say that all were good looking and that
some were beauties
An oculist said he believed one woman
in twenty wore glasses of some kind.
Are speetacles inherited?' he was
asked.
Il should not say spectaeles were In
herited," he replied deliberately, "but
weak eyes may be-
weak eyes may be."-New York Press