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Show Artificial Aidi to Sight Long in U$e The single glass or reading glass was in common use long before spectacles were known. In the Fourteenth century spectacles, spec-tacles, though fairly common, were articles ar-ticles of some cost, and frequently formed the subject of bequests In wills. They were manufactured largely large-ly In Italy, Holland and Bavaria and from the beryl sometimes used In place of glass the Germans derived tbelr "brille." A Polish novelist, Slenklewlrx, gives It on authority that the Emperor Nero was In the huhlt of using eyeglnsws, and In the film, "Quo Vadls," Nero Is seen using his glass as a lorgnette. There seems no definitely established estab-lished fact to prove whether this glass was a monocle or a double gluss mounted on a long decorative handle. |