Show WEARING OF eyeglasses custom steadily growing among peo pie 0 of thi this country says boston physician A greater number of persona persons than ever are fird now wearing eyeglasses or spectacles said dr eugene G win ter of boston up to a short time ago the demand for lensea lenses was wits so great that the manufacturers were swamped with order orders and it was feared in thia this country that there would be a serious dearth of lenses all of the glass that la Is used in the optical business la Is Jin imported ported the ile greater part of it comes from germany the rest 1 Is made in england it ems that american glasa glass manufacturers rs has thus far been unable to produce glass of the requisite quality for the eyeglasses the greatest defect in american eyesight la to its inability to see at greit distances the majority of persons who wear eyeglass eyeglasses ies or spectacles are near nearsighted sighted even those born with p perfect eyes have been forced before they are very old to resort to glasses that they may see everything go going on this myopia to 1 due almost en entirely to the artificial condition that ajr round a human being in this plezent age almost from his very babyhood As cities increase in size and as the conveniences that are offered in any one city increase so doea does the value of real estate increase and with the rise tu in realty values the height of building 4 increase increases and par become more numerous skyscrapers pers are effective obstructions to long ranges of vision the more or less vivid and tiresome colorin colorings gt of at their walls have usurped in mans vision the place of the restful and amable blue of the sky the apart meats in these news buildings are of smaller sin aller dimensions that those in the old buildings for the air space allotted to each and every per eon son in the community must be curtailed to make the investment on the building in any way profitable it makes no difference whether one be employed all day in a small office par poring over a set of books or whether he la Is hurrying about the cly city street streets he cannot see very far about bini him and eren even in his home the walls of his room have been grouped more closely about him the fish that were found in the stream of the mammoth cave were discovered to be totally blind ul al though they at one time did possess sight the same law that was operative in depriving these fish of their eight Is oera operative tise today to day in the great congested centers of modern tion and it Is only a question of time when the eyes of those who are compelled to vork work in artificial light all day lone long will fit become so unaccustomed to daylight that blinders will have to be resorted to |