The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-05-16
WON'T WEAR SPECTACLBS
CASE OF THE SEAMsTREsS, THE
WAITER AND OTHERS.

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People Who would Rather Have Thcir
Earning Power Daminished Than ~
init That Their Eyes Are Bsaiing
Domestic servants and Eyegissses.
The prejudice against The wearing Of
Eyeglasses exists In quarters whsro one
would not be likely, to expect Il. Take,
for instance, this experience q . house.
keeper who set . visiting scamgtress at
work the other day and then lsft the
room. Wben'she returned q few minutes
later. 1t was to see tbs woman match q
pair Of ~spectacles from, bar eyes and hide
them under her sewing. D.
why do you take OF your GlAssesf'
the employer asked. Don't you nsed
them when you IN sewinS2'
oh, not 1t ALL VA the response. 1t
10 only every onos In . whils that l have
to put them on
She did not need glasses al the time.
abe declared, and tho doctor had told
her only to put them IN when she did fine
work. oh. no. It would BE- impossible for
her to wear them all the time. A. matter
Of fact she was o. blind as a bat and her
work was intolerably.ba because h wa
toe. vain to put on glasses.
watch that man mixing that saiad
dressing ono, OF q party at . table in
the restaurant OF . hotel said to another
Isn't he making q Hne mess Of it2'
Holding out the cr-,et Mt arms length
he was pouring In the oil and vinegar.
He was so far sighted that IL was impos-
sible for him TO tell just what amount
Of each ingredient he used. When he
passed the salad around the table tho
guests made no effort to exhibit any
enthusiasm.
All" he said. perceiving their cool-
ness. I'm growing old. I can no longer
be sure Of my effects. Now have my salt
days and my oil days. my vinegar nights
and my mustard nights. There wa .
time when all these ingredients mingled
harmonlotsty at my command and q
never struggled for ascendenCy.'
If tho old fool would talk less whis-
psred one Of the men. and buy o. pair
Of glasses there would be less reason to
regret his oil and his vinegar day.
There are undoubtedly restaurants
hat viii not allow their employees to
wear glasses. That ia an injustice to
their patrons instead Of q kindness. -
the waiter who q see perfectly b sure
TO be much moro efficient than snother
who ought to have glasses butt kept from
wearip tn ON BY the knowledge that
they " ould cost him his job.
Not long q go two customer OF . hair
dresser met in q shop. You like Peter
son az we'll as I do n Of the women
said to the other. Cant you help me do
somsthing to make her put on spectaciesf
I've had her for years. Peterson b not
a year under forty-fve and it's high time
she wore spectaoles. Now she claws my
hair. sticks hairp ms into my scalp and
swings on my back hair q II Il were .
trapele. I know it's only because shes
too vain to put on glasses.
Il wrote her to-day that I vas going
out Of town. the other answered That
was the only way | could think Of getting
rid Of her. I had got to be afraid 4
vent fumbling around the alcohol lamp.
There's no use struggling with her. !
always said that Peterson WA the best
hair woman l ever had. but u s1e's %
silly a. not to wear glasses what's the use
struggling with hsrf'
1t was u that many OF her
ins practice was = thing Of the past. She
was we'll along Ia the years that bring
the actual need at s~peotaoles. but she
secuted the idea Of using them,
The new cook came into the house
keepers room carefully conceAing, some
thing under her aprob. Tho housekeeper
thought she knew what 1t q
Aren't those spectacles. Emily b
asked.
The woman looked panioetricken,
started to lie and changed her mind.
YES. they're s~peotacles, num-, she
said, Il didn't want ye TO see me wear1n'
'em because there's some ladies az objects
to 'em on their girls. SO was hiding em
away as / came in
The thought Of the mistakes that a near
sighted cook may make 10 almost enough
in itself I O reconcile a ~housekeeper to any
kind Of eyeglasses.
Servants who wear spectaoles are seen
nowadays in all houses. Men servants
with glasses are rarer than women.
although they are sometimes allowed TO
put them on II they have been long In the
service Of the family.
1T is not from the young. an oouhst
told The Sun reporter, that the greatest
objection to glasses comes. | n pretty
young girls willing to put them on with
perfect knowledge that It - going to spoil
their looks, and boys mover object TO them
even il it is a sure thing that the wearing
OF them will interfere with their sports. Yet
a middle aged woman with q family OF
grown children will take on at the sugges-
ton OF using glasses as II she we're . SHOW