Among the thousands, of people who go to Drogheda, Ireland, and the holiday resorts thereabout by rail excursion there is ’ hardly a girl who is not wearing spectacles. From inquiries made among opticians it appears that there is a crazS for glasses on the part of work girls in the bigger centres of population in the Free State, Practically all the housemaids are affecting horn-rimmed spectacles of the cheaper varieties. Doctors say they believe that the craze is highly injurious, but the opinion of the doctors has no weight with the young person anxious to five an impression of intellectuality. Nursemaids are now indistinguishable from university graduates.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22065, 22 September 1933, Page 8
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