GLASSES FOR CARDPLAYING

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 79, 3 April 1926, Page 15

GLASSES FOR CARDPLAYING

a; fashionable defect.

' Special glasses for bridge playing are in increased demand among WQtnen players, according to an eminent West End oculist. ' So general has the demand been that.part of this specialist's stock-in-trade,.in addition to the ordinary test cards, is a pack of playing cards. "Women who can sco to read quite well with their ordinary glasses apparently cannot see to play bridge ■with them," he. told a "Daily Chronicle" representative. "The value of a card thrown-- on to the table by their opponent or: their partner, aeems to be

not plainly visible with their ordinary glasses. 'We cannot afford to make mistakes,' they tell me, 'so give mo something-that will hot allow me to take a club for a; spade, which I keep on doing.' So lam very busy making the 'bridge eye.'.' 1' ; "A good many women have come to us recently with orders from their .oculists for what they call bridge glasses," said a leading London optician. ■ "There seems to bo quite an epidemic of it. Whether it is just a passing phase or not it is hard to say, .for.'.some dear old ladies want a special pair of glasses for everything they do-j—reading glasses, knitting glasses, sewing glasses, glasses to walk in, to drive in, theatre glasses, and some a special pair for every different course they feat at meals." ,