The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-12-11
Care of the Eyes.

At writer in Harper's Bazar has an
article on the care of the eyes; but, as
he fails to exhaust his subject, we add
few additional rules, and, if they sue
ceed in exhausting the reader, we shall
feel amply repaid for our time and
trouble in compiling them:
Never read, write, or sew by gaslight.
II is exceedingly hurtful to the eye. AL
wavs, when possible, use a kerosene
lamp-one low enough to enable you to
sit with it Immediately under your nose:
Not only is this practice recommended
by the worst oculists, but there is also
the delicious perfume so grateful to
cultivated taste.
When outdoors, always protect your
visual organs with colored glasses. Be-
sides being great ornament to the
nose, they prevent the daylight reach
ing the eye. Nothing is SO bad as day
light for the eye.
OF course you will remove your lasses
when YOU -enter an artifcially lighted
room. 1t is only natural light that
hurts.
One of the very worst things you can
do for the eyesight is to tell man big
ger than yourself that his veracity IS
doubted. One instance of this kind has
often destroyed PERSONS sight for
months.
1t is also dangerous practice to use
the keyhole as an avenue of vision. The
party on the other side may own a brad
awl or squirt-gun.
To toug hen the eye, lis recommended
by good authorities that one sit in the
steam-car beside an open window. This,
to be sure, is heroic treatment; but, if
persisted in, the eye will become SO
tough that nothing can,penetrate it-not
even light.
Reading at twilight is excellent prac-
tice. 1t accustoms the eye to the change.
full gradations of receding light until
complete darkness ensues. When
blindness intervenes, this darkness is
permanent and exceedingly restful.
| In reading, always place your book
on the table before you, and bend your
face down over it. This will serve tic
concentrate your attention upon the vol
ume. If you become short-sighted, as
you probably will, so much the better
Your thoughts will not be likely to bt
distracted by distant objects.
1t is rule followed by all careful gun
ners to close both eyes when pulling thu
} trigger. The danger of any detached
pieces of percussion cap striking the eye
is thus obviated.
!, When an infinitesimal atom of dus
strikes your cornea, immediately MOI
! your eye with a coarse pocket-hand
kerchief. 1t will cause you to oforget TIN
pain made by the first-named foreigl
: substance.
, Space forbids giving the correct rule
7 for removing a cinder from the eye
i There are 473 of these rules, any one Q
, them perfectly efficacious except in tn
i case under treatment. As signs OF raj
t fail in dry time, so do rules for eS
r tracing cinders from the eye when ther
is one there. Ill
Eyes are like good children, and shoul
never be crossed.
Gentlemen should never look at
: brilliantly beautiful woman. 1t enger
8 ders enervation of the eyelids, causin
e them to nictitate in an unseemly manner
: The eye is the most precious organ
n the body.
e President johnson was notably fon
of It.
Y He spelled it thus: l.
d But eye am getting egeyetistical.
e Shall 1 stop?
i Aye!-Boston Transcript.