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Show Origin of the Monocole. Tho proposal to permit tho use of spectacles to llritlsh soldiers Is 0 reminder re-minder that from tholr prohibition came tho monocle. About a century ago an army order was issued forbidding for-bidding olllcors to wear eyeglasses or spectacles. Hut a short sighted of-fleer of-fleer belonging to n crack regiment ncer belonging to n crack regiment had no mind to resign his commission or stumblo blindly, nnd he Invented tho single eyeglass When called to account hy tho authorities ho claimed that the monocle, being of tho singular number iid not con-traveno con-traveno tho order against spectaclos and glasses In tho plur'l. nod tapo accepted this literal rendering of tho law. and, becoming popular In th' Hrltish army tho monoclo was ndpot cd by civilian beaus. |