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Show Origin of the Monoeole. The proposal to permit tho use of spectacles to llrltlsh fcoldlers Is a reminder re-minder that from their prohibition came the monocle. About a century ago an army order was issued forbidding for-bidding officers to wear eyeglnsseb or spectacles. Hut a short-sighted officer of-ficer belonging to a crack regiment had no mind to resign his commission or stumble blindly, and he Invented tho single eyeglass. When called to account by the authorities ho claimed that the monoe'e, being ot the singular number. J id nut contravene con-travene tbo order ngalnst bjicetnclcs and glasses in tho pie; i. Hod tnpo accepted this literal len.lerlng of the law, and. becoming popular In th' llrltlsh army thn monocle was nil pot ed by civilian beaus. |