Squints and Love-Matches.
Observer, Volume X, Issue 620, 15 November 1890, Page 12
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Squints and Love-Matches.
' Love laughs at locksmiths,' and ho can now do the same at squinting eyes and other natural deformities.. Dr. Wilkins, of Auckland, tells the following yarn, which readers may take ' by the way of a squint,' or not, just as they like : — Some little time ago a well-to-do person came to me one day in a great quandary ; the erentleman was 30 1 years of age, and very anxious to settle down in married life. Unfortunately, however, although he possessed an. ample fortune, he also possessed a big outward squint in the right eye. No treatment had ever been employed in his childhood to cure his squint, and he bore the de'ormity till some months since, and would most probably have continued to endure the ungainliness all* his life, had his left eye not fixed it<* straight visual lineupon a young maiden, considered by my patient the most fit partner to pasa his life with. The young lady's heart, however, was obdurate, foi she ' struck at squints,' and flatly refused to marry any man who could not look her straight in the face with both eyes. Mr S. immediately took the hint, consulted me next day, and had his eye put straight by a neat operation ; with the result that a marriage soon followed, and not long sinoe. thewife brought a fine little boy to have his first toothlanced, in case any neglect on her part might be the means of making her little offspring squint.
