| Show the vie use of the monocle thero there is a queer fa fashion shiou more prevalent in england than with us entirely confined to england and a few anglo maniacs in and this country cour itry of wearing a glass before one eyo only this custom probably originated with short rt sighted people who wishing to bo 19 able to see at a distance with one eyo eye and near at hand with the other armed the short sighted righted oyo eye with a glass elass and left the other in a condition in ill which it worked easily without one an english gentl gent gentleman loman oman lately told mo that this fashion arose fron froia the needs of the hunting field when it became necessary on jumping a ditch for example to chango thi view from one cove covering rind tho the whole field to one that would correctly esti mate the short di distance stanco to bo be covered by the horse the one glass could then cheti be readily dropped from tho the eye whereas to detach a pair of eyeglasses would not be so BO easy but whatever was tho origin most of those who now wear a glass in this way do boso doso so for purposes durpos ea unknown to the writer for a gi glass with no refractive power whatever is ia often worn and people use the them who have no defect of vision u probably the monocle is ia an effect of ci vilim tion upon eye how bow english civilization which justly ranks among the highest hu haa come to its use while other nati nations ours scarcely employ it it would ie be dim cult to my eay dr D B st jollu john roosa in cosmopolitan |
