The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-03-23

one oil the fellows, the other day, to see
his bracket saw. He wants to sell it. He
said twas in the nursery, and the baby had
the chicken-pox, but didn't see What that
had to do with the bracket saw, and Pve
got it. / don't mean The bracket saw, he
asked too. much for that, and orr club
meets tonight and my cousin is going to
have big party Friday night, and I'm
missing all the fun That isn't all either.
/ read 50 much in the twilight yesterday
that hurt my eyes. and the doctor says I
can't read any more till month after
get well. | think some one might have
told me that you have to be careful of your
eyes when you've got-chicken-pox
''But you don't mean that you didn't
know it was very wrong to read in the twi-
light, whether you are sick or well?'
81 never thought much about it.
"Ah, I am afraid that is the trouble very
often. You know, but you don't think. II
you would stop to thiuk. sou find that yon
know many things beforehand that would
help you to avoid trouble. Acting on fore
knowledge is the old ounce Of prevention
that is said to be worth pound of cure.
Sometimes even a pound of cure is not
enough. and people suffer all their lives
from the evil that is wrought through want
Of thought. know a woman, forty years
old, who has not been able to read or sew
since she was fourteen, because she strain
ed her eyes reading by the freight"
GLOW dreadful said the boy, rubbing
his own eyes. ''Do you think reading by
twilight could do that to a fellow -
Il am quite sure it could do your sight a
great injury, and advise you to be more
careful in future. Good eyesight is NEST
precious possession, and cannot be too
highly priced. Eyes take pretty good care
Of themselves, and it is a shame to abuse
them
What an idea. How can reyes take care
of themselves? ~
"They can shut their lids when they see
an object approaching too nearly, and even
in the dark they have double row of SEN
tinels on the watch for danger"
My eyes haven't any sentinel, 2 said the
boy decidedly.
They have eyelashes of fine hair, which
have SO many nerves in their bulbs, that
they are as sensitive as 'feelers' to tile
slightest touch and warn the cyelid to close
on the approach OF an insect or any small
object that touches them. The lashes
curve upward and outward, so as not To
obstruet the light, bat in sun, wind rdust
the lids first impulse is to partly close and
let the lashes form screen to protect the
eye To shade tie eye froIn the brightness
of the sky, the hairs are thick, but they
taper to fine point to each end,
and each one falls out in about five
months and is replaced by new one. The
eyebrows, too, are of use in protecting the
eve. They are made of thick skin and
muscle and rest upon bone which projects
enough to save the pnpil from The force Of
blow. The hairs on the brows are stiff
and strong and make sort Of shed which
catches the perspiration which might run
down into The eye. Beside their useful
ness, eyebrows give much expression to
the face The word superciIious which
means naughty and contemptons, is taken
from supereilum, the Latin name of eye
brow.
"why, there's lots about eyes, isn't
there!''
There is a great deal more than have
told you; too much to tell in one day But
hope I have said enough to make yon
have some respect for your eyesn'-Nrs.
Nary c. Hungezford, IN Pacific Express