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Show Origin of the Monocole. Tho proposal to permit the use of spectacles to British soldjers Is a reminder re-minder that from their prohibition came the monocle. About u century ago an army order was Issued forbidding for-bidding ofllcers to wear eyeglasses 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 the single eyeglass. When called to account by the authorities ho claimed that tho monec'i , being of tho singular number lid not contravene con-travene the order against spectacles and glasses In tho plm '. Red tape accepted this literal rendering of tho I law, and, becoming popular in tho Drltlsh army the monocle was adpot- j ed by eUlllan beaus. |