Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1901 — PUT HIS EYE ON IT. [ARTICLE]

PUT HIS EYE ON IT.

There i 9 a 6torv about Walker Freese Smith at Tuxedo which is rather amusing. Mr. Smith is one of the few New York men who wear a monocle. In his case —and he is always ready to admit it—it is arranged to cleverly conceal a glass eye, Mr. Smith having had the misfortune to lose one of his eyes years ago. When golf was in the height of its popularity, Mr. Smith went in for all the rigors of the game. H® played under an instructor. This man was rather insistent upon his pupil following every rule of the game, lie was constant in his instruction, “Put your eve on th® ball.” At last Mr. Smith, after making several flukes in his strokes, was reminded again, “Put your eye on th® ball.” Suiting the action to th® word and taking the meaning literally, Smith, to the astonishment of the instructor and the horror of th® caddie, removed his monocle, and then, taking out his glass eye, deliberately stuck it on the ball and, turning around exclaimed: “Now, there! Is that all right?* •—New York Times.