The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-16
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l, Sit erect in your chair when reaQlnS,
and as erect when writing as possible, =
you bend downward you not only gorge
the ayes with blood, but the brain as Wen
and both suffer. The same rule should
apply to the use of the microscope. Get
one that will enable you to look at things
horizontally, not always vertically.
2. Have a reading lamp for night use.
N. BIN reading the light should De on
the book or paper and the eyes IN the
shade. If you have no reading lamp, turn
your back to the light, and you may read
without danger to the eyes. !.
8. Hold the book at your focus; II that
begins to get far away, get spectacles;
4. Avoid reading by the Pickering light
of the fire.
s.. Avoid straining the eyes by reading
in the cleaning.
6. Reading in bed is injurious as a rule.
1t must be admitted, however, that N
cases of sleepiessness, when the nina ls
inclined to ramble over q thousana
thoughts a minute, reading steadfes the
thoughts and conduces to sleep,
z. Do not read much in Q railway car
riage. ! myself always do, however, only
in a good light, and ] invariably carry q
good reading lamp to hook on behind me.
Thousands of people would travel by
night rather than by day if the companies
could only see their way to the exclusive
use of the electric light.
8. Authors should have black ruled
paper instead of blue, and should never
strain the eyes by reading too fine type,
3. The bed room blinds should be red or
gray, and the head OF the bed should be
toward the window.
10. Those ladies who not only write but
sew, should not attempt the black seam
by night.
II. When you come to an age that sug-
gests the wearing of spectacles, let no
pair, II you have only one eye an eye
glass will do; otherwise it is folly.
IL. Go to the wisest and best opticlan
you know of and state your wants and
your case plainly u be assured you WILL
be properly fitted.
10. Remember that bad speetacles are
most injurious to the eyes and that good
and well-chosen ones are a decided lux
ury.
II, Get a pair for reading with and, it
necessary, a long-distance pair, for use
out of doors.-CGsselps Magazine.
She WAS Posing.
She was posing, evidently, as she stood
Oh the steps of the Cliff House, at Mani
tou.
Two impressionable young men were
looking and admiring,
How statuesque she looks,'' said one.
what a grand figure she has, hasn't she?
Such refined features and such a clear
complexion. She must be a new arrival
from the East to have such a lovely COM
pleXion as that, and | wonder who she is.
/ am going to enquire"
90" said his companion, ''she must be
from the East as you say; if she had lived
here any time her complexion would have
been spoilt. What grand eyes and hair
she has, And what grace. Let us find
out where she's from. 1t must be New
York or Boston"
They proceeded to the clerks desk and
asked c~onfidentialIy whether she was
from New York or Boston.
"What makes you think she is from
either of these places?
90" chorused the two admirers, sher
beautiful complexion, her natural grace,
and her exquisite figure,n
"Well. gentlemen, she is from neither
| place; she is from a small village, l
believe, near Stockholm, Sweden,
and is employed in the house washing
Dishes"
Her posing on the front steps lost it's
charm, And the two young men from
the East went down to the iron spring
and remained there an hour, drinking the
mineral water.
"She was not such a pretty girl after
all. Hooked at her closely as we came
down.
mo, some girls look well at a dis
tance.-"DenUer Meas.