SIXPENNY SPECTACLES. The habit of buying sixpenny pairs of spectacles from heaps on the counters of multiple stores " after merely "trying on," which is deplored in the report on the British Optical Practitioners (Registration) Bill, is not merely a desperate resource of the poor, says an English writer. An elderly lady of culture buys these sixpenny spectacles as one might buy matchboxes and distributes them, about her house to save herself the labour of carrying a pair. Observation of such cases diminishes surprise at the statement that a million sixpenny glasses are sold in a year. Germany, it is stated, has the highjest proportion of eyeglass, wearers, the | United States the aext, and England ' I the third. In France and Spain"' .the , proportion is much lower, the reason being, doubtless, that those countries have fewer and less enterprising opticians. ■
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 3228, 15 June 1928, Page 7
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