Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-05-18

should not wear glasses until the accom-
modating power Of the eys has been
suspended and the exact state OF retrac'
ton determined by a competent ophth-
almic surgeon.
The spectacle glasses sold by %peddlers
and by jewellers generally are hurtful
to the eyes of those who read much, as
the lenses are made of inferior sheet
glass and are not dramatically ground.
No matter how perfectly b lenses
may be made, unless they are mounted
in a suitable frame and properly placed
before the eye. discomfort will arise
from a prolonged use.
There are three systems of grading
spectacle lenses, the English, the metric
and the Prussian. Those made to sup.
ply the demands of the trade in this
country are carelessly made and are
poor limitations of either the English OF
the metrical systems. The metrical scale
has no English equivalent, is not graded
by any uniform rule of dividing he in
ter-focal spaces, and is therefore insult
ed to the exacting demands ofscience.
Persons holding objects too near the
face endanger the safety of their eyes
and incur the risk of becoming near
sighted. :,
The near-sighted eye is an unsound
eye, and should be fully corrected with
a glass, Notwithstanding the fact it may
need no aid for reading.
The proper time to begin wearing
glasses is just rs soon rs the eyes tire on
being subjected to prolonged use.-Med-
ical Herald.
Our Daughters.
Lucinda B. Chandler is discussing the
problem "What Shall We Do With Gu,
Daughters?" in the Chicago Magazine
She says:
If civilization has achieved one unal-
loyed blessing, has proved indisputably
one rule for social progress, it is coed.
ucation of the sexes, in the nursery, in
the school room, in the social gatherings
for entertainment and communication,
in the organization for all purposes Of
improvement, is the method of nature
of that perfect law of being, from which
only good can result. The haremidea il
dead and buried. No doct or of divinity
can resurrect it. The CO. operation Q.
the sexes is a part of the basic law Of
mutually which is the supreme law o,
the universe. So far as that co-opera'
ton prevails human society is benefited.
ton more enlightened and more per-
feet.
"The impossible distance betweenth
sexes" which has separated husband
and wife, when the husband was trained
in a line of thought, sympathy, and ac-
ton wholly divergent from the narrow
er scope allowed to the confined, re-
stricted, and often drudging domestic
life of the wife, has done more to destroy
the sancitity of home and the strength
Of social integrity, that can ever be ac-
complished by the intellectual training
of our daughters. The world does not
need "Hannah James," but a co-educa-
ted and cooperative manhood and wo-
manhood.
Mrs. Chandler is right. The "Han-
nah James" are at a discount at present.
The world hasn't a fraction Of use for a
woman who meekly allows herself to be
showed to the wall and stay there. In
ertia has ceased to be a virtue.
Aseason OF Rich Colors.
From the Boston Advertiser.
The colors that are used this season
are typical of the season itself. 1t would
seem as though all the colors of summer
had been taken to make our girls and
women brightly and p%rettily attractive.
There is warmth and glow to everything;
the pinks are like those of the old
fashioned gardens, and find their pro-
totypes in the cinnamon roses that grow
by the south door of many a New Eng
land farmhouse, and in the clover pinks
which make such spicy fragrance along
the garden paths. The blues are the
blues of the larkspur and flower de luce
and spikewort; the yellows are those Of
the .buttercup and dandelion, of the
marigold and the s%unHower. Even the
puppies have an-underglow of red, and
the browns a CLINT of golden sunlight.
1t is many a season since there have
been such rich %colors, and people are
taking kindly to them again.