Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1893 — GEORGE HAD AN EYE-GLASS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GEORGE HAD AN EYE-GLASS.

He Also Carried a Sunshade, and Hotli ot Them Were Affairs. George Washington was not a duilish young man. Yet the Philadelphia Inquirer cannot help a thrill of surprise on seeing the eye-glasses and the sunshade which he always

carried with him. The eyeglasses were of silver, cunningly carved, with Washington’6 name engraved in the middle of the handle. They were much like our lorgnettes, except that they would not close, and the lenses are perfectly round. Washington used to hold them lust as ladies hold lorgnettes nowadays, and when not in use they were hung upon a little

curved pin which was fastened to the lapel of his coat. His sunshade was a queer little affair with an ebony stick. The shade was of yellow silk, with a tiny fringe around it. and was always carried when the father

of his country went for a drive. In those days men did not wear broadbrimmed straw hats.

WASHINGTON'S EYE-GLASSES.