1941-03-20 — Page 11

By George MacManus

OH- TAXI!

Dope 1982 Kant Festine

OH - MOTHER-

A PAGE FOR WOMEN

Sun Glasses Of Quality

Many outdoor sports call for the use of sunglasses and even women who do not embrace sports must wear them to protect eyes from the sun or water's glare.

But sun glasses should be worn only when you are in the bright sun and should never be used for night driving or for house wear, warns a prominent New York eye physician, and only ground and polished glasses should be worn.

"There are so many different types of REITI glasses sold." he writes, "that it is easily under- Stood why womon are in a di-

lemma

"Interior quality. sun glasses, made from celluloid, poor blown or pressed glass, will add irrogu- lar astigmatism, myopia, hype- ropia, or prismatic imbalance to the refractive mechanism of the eye. Consequently, they only in- crease the strain produced by the sun's glare. The best advice about buying is to buy your sun glasses from a reputable optician and insist upon good quality ground and polished protection lenses,

~ and it your eyesight is poor, have the glasses ground with your cor- rect distance prescription."

About Night Driving

It seems that many women like to wear sun glasss at night when

but driving a car,

according to

this same authority, such practice is dangerous.

Eyesight is protected and wrinkles

quality glasses to cut the sun glare.

by avolded

wearing

good

"Sun glasses are designed for the visibility too much. Up to the glare of auto headlights and still day wear and should not be worn time of writing, no glass has been; be safe.

for night driving as they lower made which will overcome the

BUSINESS TALKS IN

STREETS AFTER

RAID

EXECUTIVES OF some London offices held their morning staff conference at street corners indicative of the spirit and resolution with which the City got on with the job under difficulties after the immense fire raid destruction.

Not

were

the

far away

There were many such scenes harred ruins of their former near damaged City streets, streets places of business. But they where the destruction did not ap- showed that London could get pear to be so fearsome as the fires

on with it even in such unpre- had suggested. cedented circumstances as con- fronted so many workers.

Others talked things over in a coffee tavern or restaurant, while , members of their staffs, chatting in groups on the pavements walt- ed for instructions.

ABSOLUTELY IS THE WORD

At many points departmental chiefs. with notebooks and pencils took names and addresses from members of their staffs as they stood at street corners.

"Mopping Up"

It was a necessary requirement where office records had been: destroyed. When the new lists had been completed, staffs were told to go 'home until things had been! tidied up.

The tidying up process went on briskly and efficiently, but there Many parts of Germany have a was still a tremendous amount of very harsh winter, with the ten-"mopping-up" to be done. perature often ten degrees below

stubbornly after

Here and there a fre still freezing point.-Geography book, smouldered

Joy Through - Warmth an-thirty-six hours incessant pump- nouncement by the Fuehrer's Goving of water.

PAN

But most had been

ernment to the Fuehrer's people, effectively extinguished.. often enjoying ten degrees below St. Paul's was surrounded by freezing point:-

"No overcoat may be bought in future without a permit,

"No permit will be issued

to

any one who cannot show that

the gaping skeletons of once fine -buildings. Along-Cheapside-build- ings had been burned almost tol their foundations.

Elsewhere the life of the City'

his present coat is absolutely un-had virtually regained its normal. Wearable

brisk-tempo.*

Are Sun-Glasses Habit-Forming?

We have heard considerable criticism of sun glasses to the ef- fect that they become habit-form- Ing. Just what is meant by habit-

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forming is not clear. Cert.nly OFF THE RECORD

they will not cause an atrophy of the colour sense, however, if worn unnecessarily and continuously, they may lower one's tolerance to light and instigate a discomfort In moderate illumination.

In buying a sun glass, remem- ber that all good quality, absorp- tive and sun lenses on the market are of value, and will serve you for beach and any unusual day brightness. When buving your glasses, step outside and test them. See if you like looking through them and get the degree of darkness which best suits you.

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