Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-03-30

removing the eyes and then replacing them are pure and utter nonsense. The eye can not be lifted one-eighth of an inch from it's socket without destroying the sight forever
 So, when the eye comes out, it is cut for all time, and only a glass eye can be substituted and in this way the work of the hospital is supplemented with the achievement of the optical prothetician. He is the last resort of the eyeless one, and although surgery slaves him eff as long as possible an artificial pupil, for instance, being made for a patient the other day in the Post-Graduate Hospital, where be for the eye would have had to be re- mCved-his ministrations are sub JGct for gratitude at last, for the glass eye of today. movable in exact ac- cordance with the other eye if cer- 'ti III iiuoNiCfo III tlit SOChel d1t ltIJ intact, and so true to life that the heenest inspection often fails to de- tect it, is a boon to the afflicted, hid ing the repHgnanee of deformitv. and thus removing an obstacle to his sue cess in life.
 Only three houses in the United States make glass eyes, and they are located in New York city. A large number of false orbs. however. of an inferior quality comes from Thur lnsia, in the heart of the Romatic Black Forest of Germany. Here is the home of the industry, and from here come most of the glass eyes that the regular optician keeps in stock. The American maker. On the other hand, is exporting his finer goods to every quarter of the earth, one house alone making ten thousand year for export Of the other eye making houses in the world there are five in Paris. three in London. and two in Birmineham, so that there is an industry which. it may be readily seen, is not overcrowded.
 Eye-making was practiced in the days of the oldest civilizations. There is authentic record of artificial eyes that were made in the reign of Ptole- my IT, who grasped the sceptre in Egypt ill the fourth century before Christ. Eyes Were at first made of metal, either copper or gold or silver shaped into flat disks and painted to initiate nature. Ill the days Of Am broise Pare. the celebrated French surgeon of the sixteenth century. a painted representation of the whole eye and eyelids was fastened in front of the orbit and held in place by a steel spring that fitted the uper cir conference of the head. Eyes have been made of wax and celluloid and vulcanite, and a horse, not long ago presented an improved appearance with an eye of horn. Eyes were also made of porcelain, when that came into use, and their effect was decided ly more lifelike.
 A Haytian general once upon time lost an eye in battle with the Spaniards and sent to Paris for anoth- CT to replace it. He received an ex- pensive and choice specimen from the Paris maker, but because it con- tained a suggestion of yellow. which was the color of the hated Spaniard. the Haytian soldier sent it back, swearing he would wear an eye only that displayed the colors of his coun- try The Parisan artist thereupon made him one that sported the red and green of Hayti, and this the jeal- GUS warrior Wore proudly until the day of his death.
 False eyes were very expensive in the early stages of the art false eye ranked with the jewels of a per sons possession, and was frequently diverted from it's proper use to shine as an ornament upon some part of the person for which it had not been destined. As made today. the cost o' 9 false eye varies from five to fifteen