The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-02-07
Advice in Reskrd to the Eyes.
From Fraser's Magazine.

The more you avoid glaring and
glancing lights in the rooms you la.
bitually sit in, the better. Therefore
although the following advice is GER
tain.to meet with no attention from
the great majority-it is our laughably
painful duty to recommend ladies to
have as few mirrors and other looking
glasses, gilt picture-framesa and mould.
ings, bright-colored curtains, and high.
ly-pOlished furniture, in their drawing
rooms as possible and what they must
have should be so placed as not to al
low bright lights to be thrown upon
them. Highly-colored curtains are adj
ditionally injurious when the windows
are open, so that various brilliant and
dazzling cOlOrs are dung about
the room by the incoming breeze. A
very bright carpet is very injurious
thing, and, when combined with a
brightly-painted ceiling, madness.
eyes, but they are short one. A rich.
patterned sober-toned carpet, and a
solf sky-gray or stone-colored ceiling,
are my own private fancy. The al
most invariable whitewash of the
British ceiling would be constant in
jury but for the grave fact that the
British isles are not overwhelmed
with sunlight. But whether reading,
writing, Or working in any other
way, it should always be done with an
obliqne light, and never with a hor-
lZontal light. = -
AS to the use of lotions, several pre-
scriptions are given in the little book
we commenced with, as well as in
other works, but I forbear to trans.
Grille any of them, excellent as they
no doubt would be, because lotion too
strong, or too frequently applied, or
not exactly the proper lotion for a
special case or Individual popularity,
might do far more harm than good,
unless used under professional super.
vision. The only exception is that of
pure water. In cases of much inflam-
nation, or difficulty of opening the eye
lids in the morning, the water should
be warm, and it may be mixed with
warm milk; but in nearly all other
cases it should be cold. All those who
have been engaged in reading or writ
ing during several hours at stretch,
and especially at night, should care
fully battle the eyes with cold water
before going to bed, and the first thing
in the mornings additions. All artis-
ans who work at a blazing fire ought
often to wash their eyes with cold
pure water; and so should all those
who work in wool, particularly card
ers and spinners, and all those en-
plOyed in wooden and cotton manufac-
lures, etc., for the fine dust, almost
imperceptible, it may be called, which
such works dispense, often produces
cataracts, obstinate determinations,
swelled eyelids, &C., I once lived dur
ing weeks at time, on the banks Of
an opthalmic river in the interior of
Australia; and numbers of settlers and
shepherds, bushmen, land diggers we're
afflicted every summer and Autumn
with sore eyes-so sore In some cases
that you might have thought they
would never open them again.
One day a squatter who owned a
sheep-station Whereabouts rode up
from Melbourne with great air.
He was a ''swell squatter," who only
now and then came to visit his snug
little farm on>the river, s'sto see how
stock got on l asked. his advice for
the sore eyes of his shepherds and
others. ''It serves them quite right!''
said he. II never have these sore
eyes; and you, sir, will never have
sore eyes. No gentleman ever has,
Not exactly perceiving the nice dis
tinction in this matter, I demurred.
':It is nice Distinction said he; sit
is just that. You no doubt often wash
your eyes with cold water. Those fell
lows never do,'' There was no doubt
much reason in this but something
else was the cause. Besides the dirti-
ness of neglecting the hot sand and
dust in the eyes, flies often rushed in.
to them, and were not soon or easily
cleared out there was, moreover, a
very small river fly, which either bit
or stung land inflammation very speed.
lily set in. I should have been very
thankful at that time, for the sake of
others (my horses included) as we'll as
myself, to have received the following
advice: Whenever a fly, or other in
sect, a small fying-seed, quicklime,
dust, or any other minute object, gets
into the eye ii. e. under the eye.lid,)
"do not adopt the common habit of
rubbing, or even of washing with
water, but gently raise, or get gentle
hand to raise for you, the eye.lid, and
bend the head forward.
In keeping thus the eyelid elevated,
and the eye quiescent for a few mo.
ments, one feels a flow of tears start
ing from the organ which seldom fails
to bring along with it the cause of the
pain, or at least to carry it toward the
corner of the eye next to the nose,
from whence it may be removed by a
fine handkerchief folded to point. If
this OneratiOn ia NOT nfficinnt thon q