HERE'S A NEW YEAR'S THOUGHT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15496, 1 January 1914, Page 9

HERE'S A NEW YEAR'S THOUGHT.

For many centuries, in as many ways, rorj. have wished men well on New Year Day. . - We wish you well on New Year's Day wo wish you well for all the days to come. If all has been well with you during the year just closing we are glad. If all has not been well with yon then it is our hope that the darkest hour has passed, and that the sun of the New Year will shine brightly for you, glorifying all your life. It is the object of our profession to make you see things "in their best light as they ware meant to be seen. We examine your eyes, to ascertain whether or not glasses are needed and if they are necessary, we grind the lenses in oar workshop.. 290, Queent street, adjusting them carefully to the individual requirements of your eyes. No one is better equipped than we, the Samuel Barry Optical Institution, to give you the best of optical service, for we have the highest skill, the most up-to-date machinery, the most complete and perfect appliances, backed up by fifteen years of experience. The Tesult perfect eye-service. Make it your New Year's resolution personally to investigate and satisfy yourself that our service and our glasses are best for you. The glasses we would recommend for the New Year are, according to your age, Barry's " Kontorik " or " Kryptok " lenses. " Kontorik" lenses are specially adapted to the needs of young people who suffer from some defect in sight. They are ground with a deep hollow, so as to suit the shape and movements of the eye, and are by far the most comfortable and becoming shape modern ingenuity can devise. Of their many advantages over the flat lenses of the past, we might mention the increased field of vision' they afford, for it is possible to see just as perfectly through the edges a 6 through the centre of the lens. Then they act as a protector to the eye irom dust, as they fit' close to the face, ■nThout touching the eyelashes, not to mention the tremendous improvement in appearance attained by the new shape. For older people, who require glasses for distant as well as near vision, is provided the "Kryptok" lens, the invisible bifocal par excellence. With the aid of these wonderful glasses perfect vision is attained for all distances, without any of the disadvantages of the -old-style "farnear" glasses. To look at they appear to be a single .■ focus lens, but on looking through them, the wearer discovers the "hidden eye," which gives them their name—that invisibly inserted piece of glass for near, vision, giving back the sight of youth to the eyes of age. Let Samuel Barry help you to enjoy the good gifts of the coming year by perfecting your faulty eyesight at his sight-testing rooms, 290, Queen Street. That is the best way to make his wish for " A Happy New Year'' to you, come to pass. - '