Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1913 — Monocle In Use 100 Years. [ARTICLE]

Monocle In Use 100 Years.

The monocle, usually associated with the sterner although perhaps not less vain sex, has been worn for just a hundred years. The first person to screw a glass in his eye was, acpording to Sir Horace Rumbold, a Dutch exquisite, the Jonkheer Breele, whose monocle startled the diplomats assembled for the congress of Vienna. The fashion spread rapidly. In Dr. KltchIner’s "Economy of the Eyes," published nine years after the congress, he deplores the fact that “a single glass set in a smart ring Is often used by trinket fanciers merely for fashion's sake. These folk have not the least defect in their sight and are not aware of the mischievous consequences of such irritation."