SIXPENNY SPECTACLES
DEPLORED BY BRITISH OPTICIANS The habit of buying sixpenny pairs of spectacles from heaps on the counters of multiple stores after merely “trying on,” which is deplored in the report on the British Optical Practitioners (Registration) Bill, is not merely a desperate resource of the poor, says an English writer. An elderly lady of culture buys these sixpenny spectacles as one might buy match-boxes and distributes them about her house to save herself the labour of carrying a pair. Observation of such eases diminishes surprise at the statement that, a million sixpenny glasses are sold in a year. Germany, it is stated has the highest proportion of eyeglass wearers, the United States the next, and England the third. In France and Spain the proportion is much lower, the reason being, doubtless, that those countries have fewer and less enterprising opticians.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20127, 21 April 1928, Page 14 (Supplement)
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142SIXPENNY SPECTACLES Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20127, 21 April 1928, Page 14 (Supplement)
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