Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-12-26
CARE OF TILE EYES.
WHAT SHOULD De DONE DURING
THE TIME or CHILDHOOD.

Many persons yearly make the very sad
mistake OF neglectag their eyes until
they begin to see the mist before them
until the object they are looking al must
be brought very close 10 the eye to be dis
cerned, or until the print ia tile book they
are reading becomes all blurred and then
when in many cases II is too late 10 re
pair the injury that has been caused. they
begin TO seek advice Every year there
are hundreds of cases that come under
the oculists care that could have been
cured If a few rudmeniary principles had
been known TO or observed by the patient
These things everybody should know
but perhaps Of all persons whose es
pecial duty it is to know them The mother
has tho greatest need of il She AT least
of all persons should know that the
human eye Of the child whose infancy and
the first few years Of its tender childhood
are especially entrusted to her care, for
very often it is in infancy when the child
is yet but few months old and has not
left the nurses lap. that it's little eyes
are injured for life
Ii is natural that, when we have ar
rived al middle age and begin descending
the hill Of life Our sight should com
meuce to fail but how are we to preserve
-
ing our competent mothers and nurses
take care Of them for US while we are yet
infants In day or two after birth it
will perhaps be noticed that the lids are
swollen. and perhaps that some irruptiye
disease has set IN In such a case the
mother or nurse will do well not 20 try 10
be doctor as well as occupying the trying
position OF either mother or nurse a
skillful practitioner should al once be
called in to sec the child, that Is, If the
symptoms become at all serious. because
IL IS at this very time that the sight of
the child may be seriously affected and
perhaps permanently impaired Above
all things don't in such eases try moth
era milk, neither be overanxious that
the child may be hungry. ana therely
overfeed it Remember, first of all that
a low diet must be given in such cases.
this IS Imperative The child should ut
once be taken from place where there is
a strong light and kept in a room where
the sun or artificial light has been sub
dued conscientious physician viii in
most cases be able to effect "A rapid cure
aud save the child from untold agony,
which it might have to endure when it
grew Older il neglected now
CAREiEssNEss or NURSES.
Nurses frequently allow the child to lie
In their (the nurses laps, and in such "a
position that in order to gaze about it, the
infant must roll its eyes until sometimes
1t is staring ut objects over its forehead
or with its head tipped back it is looking
at objects upside down The careful
nurse and the thoughtful mother will
never allow the child to rccline ia this
position, or If they do will place it so
that there viii DO no incentive for it TO
look over its head Sight Is impaired in
many children In this way
When the child is tcethng is a critical
time for its eyes, and later, when it is be.
ginning to learn 10 read be careful then
that 1t does not acquire habits which
when 1t natures cannot be easily eradi
Gated Observe how it holds its book
don't let It hold it up to it's face and
squirt at ii. BE careful also that it uses
both eyes at the same time. because many
children acquire the habit of using one
eye and leaving the other unused caus
ing 1t In time to grow oNcecdugl,
weak Primers aud FIRST readers should
invariably be in largo type. and
the child should be made to sit M
straight Constantly leaning over Il desk
or piauo has II bad effect upon the eyes
of children, which is fully cQualed by q
misfortune which betals little girls and
that IS their tresses falling down oven
their taces 1t Is supposed that squirting
Is caused IN the brain. but il is well known
that children inherit it, Many of these
surrounding influences are Indirectly the
cause OF squirting, and they should be
most 2c'douSly guarded against Always
see bo it that children have plenty OF
fresh air in tho school room. and do not
excite tEe child's initiative faculties
4 Many child has been squinter for life.
1 made so by initiating nurse or IA com
panion who squiuted for fun This Is a
most peuicious practice. and one that is
+ oitenilmes ipduged in by those who have
the case OF children because the child is
30 smart il mimica SO we'll
ANOTHER CRITICAL PERIOD
The next very critical period is when
the child has grown into a youth or
maiden Their constant study. or the too
/ close application TO an cNacting occupa
I ton, viii work incalculabo injury The
4 young man or woman who is fortunate
+ enough to discorer this in time has reason
/ to be thankful. for the skjuml uculst
may Il he has the patient in season be
abto to do him some temporary good bur
alas Tor those who are not aware of their
true condition until they are frightened
some day by the spectcr of luminous
objects and black spccks floating before
them They SEE uudulatug lights and
OBJECTS that appear TO be composed Of a
misty substance When TINS state -or
things arrives the wise youth or maiden
will at once show himself To IA physician
aud get medical advice II the defect TO
tue eyois in it's first stages the doctor
will not be in any hurry To have YOU wear
glasses This IS not So desirable as
many suppose Glasses are annoy
ing To those who are forced TO
wear them. and II there Is any way
To avoid a. no one should bo in any
hurry TO pat them on In the first place
a person who notices himself afflicted with
these symptoms will seek rest Ii he is II
student. let him temporarily give up the
companiorship Of his books and seek the
companionauip ct nature
Always it Mil bee found that good sight
Is dependent 60 a great extent upon good
health aud one should mover. under any
Circumstances neglect hi, general coudi
ton, no matter how triHug the circum
stance or symptoms may appear to be
\ good rule TO remember in caring for
the sight is Never read in bed. and
another very good rule To observe dt is
disreg1rdej by almost everybody is mover
to read ON tAc cars Boston Globe
Ala to Memory.
DuulCy ,oycrtalme Brown on his way
home tc am0er Aren't You rather late