Dear Tom -
 
>Then I got to thinking - why not cut out a section of the veil and sew
in or
>otherwise affix, a rectangle of heavy plastic or other transparent
material
>just in front of the eyes.
 
Because it gets dirty, sweaty, scratched, and harder to see through than
the veil.
 
Do you wear eyeglasses?  A beekeeper's worst affliction except a bad
back.  I swear every season that I will start wearing contacts, but what
with astigmatism and tri-focals, that doesn't seem very practical.
 
Walter Weller
Post Office Box 270
Wakefield, Louisiana  70784
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