Show Made Home Glasses Classes Used When Eyesight Grew Crew Dim Not for a moment must we believe be lieve that all of our ancestors' ancestors eyes were so perfect that some eye eyo help was not needed for many old spectacles spectacles spectacles spec spec- testify that the at least tinkered himself spectacles when the letters grew dim Window glass glan was often otten the only lens available available avail avail- I able for tor the home home Made frames and eye-charts eye did not come into exis- exis fence tence until the 1800 If a man had bad hada bada a forge be he could hammer bammer out a pair of iron frames framel or twist some come of tf pewter and make himself specs I which could be helred for several leveral generations says saYI a writer in the i New York Sun I But Dut there were d difficulties Well enough said the old to fix fIc fixa a contraption to hold two pieces ot of glass but how to make em stick A leather strap was one answer two short hort sUcks sticks for tor temples temple I running running running run run- ning up under the hair halt was another I the straight bow with rings In the end holding strings for tying beI behind be be- I bind hind another then came bows 1 which slid upon themselves and finally there was the bow which curved enough to fit the head andI and cling without thong or string I i There was a time In the I when lenses were extremely small not for seeing but for tor giving the appearance appearance appearance ap ap- of ot learning In the we had gone back to these long inch lenses oblong hexagonal and oc oc- Then some one thought ofa of ofa a frame which supported the lower half of the glass and left the upper part free and we were on our way to the the rimless specs Another thought up green glasses and they were worn in shining steel frames and some other made specs with fine wire wirt which crisscrossed to form torm the nosepiece |