Show th abe U use of th the 31 monocle there is a queer fashion more prevalent in england than with us perhaps entirely confined to england and a few anglo maniacs lacs in germa germany n y and this country of wearing 7 a glass gl ass before one eye only this thi is custom probably originated with short sighted people who wishing to te be able to see at a distance with one eye and near at hand with the other armed the short sighted eye with s v glass and left the other in a condi condition tien in which it ii worked easily without one an english gent gentleman loman latel latela told me that this fashion arose from the needs of 0 the huntin hunting field f when it became nbc necessary esary on jumping a ditch for example to change tha view from one covering the whole field to one that would correctly estimate the short distance to ha be covered by the horse the one glass could theu then be readily dropped from the eye whereas to detach tacha a pair of eyell eyeglasses asses would not be so easy but whatever was tho the origin rigi n most of those who now wear a glass in this way do so for purposes unknown to the writer for a glass with no refractive power whatever is often worn and people use them who have no defect of vision probably themon the monocle oclo is an effect of civilization upon the eye but just exactly how english civilization which justly ranks among the highest has come to its use while other nations scarcely employ it it would be difficult to say dr D B st john roosa in cosmopolitan |