L -- SALVINO entine spectacies, of the see. taph consi( freedom of the s tant to the peace SALVINO DEGLIL AMAT!I, For entine monk and inventor of spectacies, discovered the frecdom of the see. The writer of his epi-- taph considered that he had much to answer for. & 'the %nédom of the seas. Old f vinmo "put a burden on the nose "humanity, but liberated its eyes. When he studied the laws of re-- 'fraction ard ground his lenses, he ittle imagined that be was affect-- ling the styles of women's dresses «&n 1923. But he was. "What shall I wear {masters. tion of the hour. _ The style producers havre discov _ At any rate, eye glasses are tied 'up with the idea of dignity. And (g. general appearance of dignity lcalh for dignifed m Outfitting the Eyes "Oh, but no, Madame!" Mademo} selle Modiste erclaims, as her prospective patron casts a specu lattve.eye on a fuffy ruffled gar-- 'ment. "It is not suitable. It does {not express the poise, the person:-- 'ality "of Madame. Now something the wearer an appesrance of dig-- nity. Perhaps it is the association of the idea with many generations of swpectacled school ma'ams 'and like this--" And she skillfully €i-- rects the spectacled attention of Madame toward a costume of sim-- ple, flowing lines. It is well _ Salvino Degli Amafl, a monk in Here lies Satvino deg!l Amati, inventor of spectacies; May God pardon his sins. heary--duty glasses for rough sports Missionaries of Manhood Saving the Flipper a Prob-- * _ for awhile from the Rapper to her twin brother, the Aipper. _ It sseme to be protty thoroughly Iittle Willie, aged four, is told it is bedtime. ' _ "I won't goe to bed," says he, and craw!s under the Aasvenport. _ "fsu't he cute?" says Mother. (Epitaph on tomb in Florence, 1411 A. D.) clared to be the offspring of preva-- lent parental induilgence, a condition which educators inform us is a be-- setting American sin. Imaginé the faux pas of father, his own," states Wather proud!y. Way Aboad of Father Willie stays ap for another half hour, parental indulgence starts ts path of larity, and the son of th« poars OCIETYT might turc its attention lem for Military Schools. is little doubt that the the see is more impor-- peace of the world than and the son of the his Arst impremsion is a live ques will of of Spectacular Reducing . If you are one of those chubby, round faced persons, don't in a ft of stubbornness or mental aberra-- tion have yourself fitted with a pair of rimless glasses, or @lasses with Might rims. They widen the ap pearance of the face. They are just the ticket for the long, lean, lunmn.nwed boys. ~An under-- weight stripling can easily put on ten pounds by removing his rims. Inversely, one of the most con-- venient methods for a--&ah--plump ® 4* of contempt for constitated author-- Ity which does not constitate. "He takes after bis father," as a saying, passed out a decade or more ago. Today the American youth is so far ahead of kis father that the latter might as well be scratched. All of which, if one stops to analyrze it, is creditable to neilther father nor "The lack of discipline, training, system, punctilio and common every-- day etiquette in our young men is one of the most deplorabla of exist-- Img conditions to which is no doubt dua the existence of a general disre-- gard and disrespect for constituted authority," states one writer. A right serions Indictment that, amd one which is pretty bard to re-- fute. A hoet of parents may rise up amd cry objections, or the charge may not even be challonged. "The old man," as he is dubbed Irrever-- ently by the Ripper, has had so much dust thrown in hia eyes by hts off@pring that he is more likety to physical development, patriot ism, good morals and love of law and order. The system best ealculated to contribute to good eitizenship is that which pro-- duces harmoniousiy and simal-- The infueace of a military edu-- cation in this direction is readi-- ly apparent. 8 men of all countries will reveal have enjoyed military education, training and experience. ----Ira L. Reeves in "Military Kd-- ucation in the Unifad States." Any system of education healthy mental, phy# H®E WAUKBCGAN DAY §mt, yellow gold mounting, eyo glasses with a very thin shell frame, rim-- less apectacles with yellow gold mounting or thin shell frame--all shake his head and remark fatzous-- ly, "I'm glad my son is not like character deveiopers, should begia at home. 'Thae stera old Spartaa iather, and even the Frenach pessant of tledeay, had the right then. A ts respectfnl son was so but ance. The punishment was aufictent to deter N4 Home Training Needéd Discipline and obedience and po-- are recommended by the sight ar biters es being decidedly chic. _ less eye glasses with white gold the highest law of the country--the Constitution--which e.fl- a re cent amendment;-- also a certain act which provides for enforcement of the amendment. Drawing soncle sions from that, however, proves Ht te. lcw'lflt'.flovmd-z" recently that in breaking the Voi ;muActnmnuhcwu the old e--der and that "like father, Theto is agreement on all aides that the American youth has gotten wreity well out of father's hands. sause of it, and the public, as Kip ling once told us we d0, "turas to the instant need of things"*" In oth-- er words, we are secking a remedy Dr. Lyman Abbott in advocating a solution once said; food is the compeilling motive, tening to the opera. Styles have changed, but since the time of Saivino himself there have always been styles. Two hundred years ago the nobles of France and England induiged their eyesight @Gered ladies of the Court training it with telling effect. The lorgnette is its granddaughter, and the mo-- pocile, so naity with stick and spats, aw, rully--its grandson. These sporting glasses--the great, roistering follows with heary bora A Backward Gilapce None of this is remarkably new. The whole trouble is that the pub-- lie has a vast misapprehension of the real purposes behind a military 1olhut|¢. Most people insist upon {meeing it as only war training, and ( Good MiWitary Bchools ' "The advantages derived from a (Pmun life for young men and tary service for a limited term would be of incalculable beneft to the yeung men of America and to the country as a whole." -- Bince the World War all thoughts of compulsory military education Nave boen anathema. Just why is Iy every peace society in AmerCA, 1 am raplidly reaching the contlusion evitable and that when it comes lucky is the mation which is pre-- milllen Americans should know by" boys are so many and so evident that parents should grasp them eagetriy for their sons," states one authority on the subject. "If the m-l uation were such as to compare tlol work of a good military school with that of a civil school of high m,f or to watch the results obtained under those wide!ly @ifferent sys tems, M is believed our military schools would be crowded." _ The writer is not thinking in terms of West Point, or of compul-- sory military education, but in ad-- vocacy of the military sehool which takes a youth and prepares him for life or college. I!t is a system which, he states, "Is calculated to develop salfrellance, a manily and independ-- eat mnature, personal reatness, eti-- quette, polished and refned maa-- ners, a wholesome respect for law and order, and tha highest type of the American citizen." What the FlippercLackse In the modern military school!, in fact, much less time is spert on "Thyogh 1 am a member of »ear-- teenth Century, the leather mames being, particularly convenieat for horsemen. Aviator's goggles are a harking back to the general princi-- ples of the leather frame goggles. When Henry Hudson safled past the wooded tip of Manhbattan Is land scholarly members of his crew looked up the Indian . trail which was to become Eroadway through spectacles with crude iron frames chiseled from solid metal by hand. There was a joint in the The kick of a blunderbuss fred at a -- reconnoitering Indian wonld probably unseat the type of ginsses naw recommended for select eve ning wear. frames, like Hudson's, with the ex-- ception that the extension ear, piece was a sliding arrangement in-- stead of hinged. Ben ¥ranklin's frames were brass and of better workmanship than Penn's. Inci-- dentally the good Ben, always a scientist, invented double focus The c~orar» unminformed individual seems to cou.ler the training as en mere drill than the public imagizes. tirely physical, designed csimply to make a man sit and walk erect and develop more ar less precision of habit. 'The reverse is the case. The military sehool alws rather to train a youth in initiative, seif--confidence and abllity to do we!l all that his hands 1nd to €0, to take care of him-- uu.tqmmm"hlollm. rather tham study tactics and to be more familiar with the respect and "The mill-- y tary eoneed trains for * character and for the State 1t systematically develops the body, and it educates the mind along a eofobistent line for the double pur-- pose of clear thinking and effective practical work. It exercises the character in Abecipline of action, habits of subordinaion to lawful au« thority, strict personal accomrt ability for word and act, truth--tellk ing, integrity and Adelity to trust, simplicity of lifa and courage." In analyring that defnition It is pretty apparent it embraces aboug everything the Alpper lacks. _ <€;