The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-09
A Talk About the Eve.


Come, now, little Brown-eyes, Blue
eyes, Black eyes, come all of you,
and let us have talk together about
those same wonderful little eyes.
Look ut your little friends, and what
do you see that open every morning and
drop down every evening? ooh, those
nice curtains" you say, lover their
eyes" Only think, each one of us has
a set of curtains that we can work as we
will and when night comes on and we
feel like sleeping, they fall down, of
their own accord, without our thinking
anything at all about it. All, you
see 1.-THE eye-lashes, you say.
These fringes are for use as
well as for beauty; they keep the notes
that are flying about i'll the air from
coming near those very delicate eye
balls. You know how well they do it,
for it is only once in great while that
we get anything in that really troubles
us. We can form some idea of the i'm
portance of these little lashes when we
call to mind how disagreeable that
cinder felt that invaded our eye some
eventful day when we took ride after
the putting steam engine. There is an
arrangement in the eye-lids for making
oil and carrying it to the edges of the
eye-lids, so as to keep the water or
moisture which is next to the eye-ball
from overlooking and running down our
cheeks. You know that if you put
water and oil into lamp together they
will not mix, but the oil will rise to the
top and the water settle to the bottom !;
just so the oil on the edges of the eye
lids will not mix with the moisture in
side, and SO the eye-water is kept in it's
proper place. You know that machinery,
i'll order that it may be kept in good
running order, needs every now and
then to be oiled now only stop and
think how mnch we move our eyes
about in one day, what task it would
be to count the motions we look down
and we look up, and we look all about
us-here, there, and everywhere.
think our eyes need good deal of
moisture to keep them in running order,
don't you? This water is made in a
little chamber just above the eye, on the
outside, and there are passages running
from this chamber to the eye, through
which it runs to reach its place. What
do you suppose becomes of the eye
water after it has done its work, and we
need more that is fresh? | will tell
you there is drain attached to the in
side of the eye that passes into the
nose the water is carried off through
this drain into the nose after it is nc
longer fit for use.
Now We come to talk about the e-bal1
itself, which contains all the nice ar.
rangements for taking pictures of the
objects we see around us. 1t is nearly
round in shape, and outside is white
coat called the cornea, which covers il
entirely except clear round window il
front. Just back of the cornea is the
iris, round curtain with an opening il
the middle, through which light passes
into the eye the size of the opening
regulates the quantity of light, ant
again when the light is dim in the
latter case the opening will be much
larger than in the former The iris is
differently colored in different people
and we call a persons eyes blue, gray OF
brown, according to its color. Back o.
the iris is a clear, Jelly like subtanct
called lens, which so acts upon the
light coming from the objects around
us as to cause us to see then
more distinctly. And finally tn,
light falls upon network O
nerves at the back of the eye, called
the retina, and there pictures are mad,
of all objects we see around us. Onl,
think what small pictures they must be
But how do you suppose the mind OBJ
tains knowledge of what we see? Their
are nerves running from the retina Il
, the brain constantly carrying message
from the eye to the mind of what il
transporting in the outside world. S,
you see there are many different pro
cesses to be gone through with in tn
act of seeing. How wonderful thing
are when we stop to think about them, an,
how tame and common when we don't
. Now L want you to stop moment an,
, think what it would be TO have you
way always dark before you to be al
ways cropping and feeling your way, an,
much of the time depending on other
} to be led. How sad it would be to Sc
nothing in nature no green grass, n
a leafy trees, no many-colored flowers n
blue heaven above us, with it's sun b
g day and moon and stars by night; neve
r to see the faces of our friends. Who G
us can wonder that the blind me
7 of old time, when they heard that Jesu
e was passing by, cried out unto hin
t p" Lord, that our eyes may be opened