ENGLISH EYE-GLASSES.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 250, 31 March 1875, Page 3

ENGLISH EYE-GLASSES.

Mr Bailey of the Banbury News, writing from England says :—We excel the English in building cars, but they completely dis tance us in wearing an eye-glass. It is not a double glass, understand, but a single disc with a silver or gold rim, and secured by a cord about the neck, from which it dangles when not in use. It is worn only by the English exquisite, and he generally dons it as he ask a question, or on entering a room where there is anybody to see him. Sometimes it is suddenly put on without any apparent provocation. I imagine that it is worms. The wearer has a baggy costume, parts his hair in the middle, and has in his face an expression of mild idiocy, which is much strengthened by the glass. He wears it in the depression just between the bridge of the nose and the brow of the eye. He places it there without any effort, and holds it by a slight depression of the brow. He could carry it more easily under his aim, but he prefers wearing it as I describe, where it rides as carefully and peacefully as a babe on its mother's breast, or a wet dog on a clean oilcloth. Imitative Americans vainly strove to capture the fashion. There was one young man from Marlborough, Massachusetts, stopping in London last summer, who devot id three months, but in vain, to make an eye-glass stay in his eye. I could always tell when he failed, by hearing him howl and swear and kick the furniture. At the end of three months he went home, as both time and money were exhausted. When his room v/as cleaned two full quarters of eye-glasses were gathered up.