The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-10-03
THE YOUNG WEAR THEM.
sPEcTAcLEs NO LONGER A SIGN
OF OLD ACE.
A Specialist Talks Of the Prevalence OF
Poor Eycisht AmoaR Those
Whose Hair II Not Yet
Tagged with Gray.


There is On old saying that people
whose noses are spanned by spectacles
are people learned in the several
avocations OF life requiring hard study.
At one time German professors, who
were acknowledge to be the hardest
students in the world. held a monopo-
ly upon these adjuncts to the vision.
and the singular idea became current
as the number Of gold bowed glasses
increased that the Germans are q
shortsighted people.
Later on when Boston set the pace
and the Beacon hill organ was tightly
clasped by the rimless eye-glass, peo-
pie began to speculate upon the causes
of the failing sight OF the Americans.
When speculation gave way to investi-
cation, 1t was discovered in nearly ev-
cry case that the habits of life, the con-
finement to offices and even school
rooms had either fully developed a
latent muscular defect in the eyes or
by straining the retina. nerves and tel
escopic muscles had produced defect
not Heretofore In existence.
The extent to which spectacles have
spread over this country is alarming.
Where. few years ago. gray hairs
or patent defects OF vision were deemed
inseparabe from glasses. now nothing
Is more common than to see young
people wearing them, whose Dyes, to
all outward seeming. need no artificial
aid in painting correctly the figures
upon the retina- In many OF these
cases the vision is perfect when the
focus can be adjusted. Too much
work over books. with too little exer-
else, has caused a weakness OF the
muscles OF accommodation, the result
being that u constant effort, painful
in the extreme, Is necessary to adjust
the eyes to long and short range.
They work like a pair OF telescopes,
or, to be moro specific. opera glasses,
and the distance from the retina to
the pupil Is heightened or shortened
to accommodate the focus to the dis
lance at which 1t is located from the
object seen.
II the nerves are overtaxed and the
muscles fail to promptly answer the
| signals given them, inflammation, blur
ring, and it may be blindness result.
Speaking OF the prevalence OF diff
Guilty with the eyes recently, says the
Kansas City Journal, a'specialist oil
local reputation remarked: You
would be surprised TO note the number
OF cases one meets with, where the
patients are slightly infiamed but
with no other indication Of serious
trouble. A spark Of dust a cinder OF
any foreign body, however small.
would cause intense agony and much
higher inflammation, yet such cases
as the latter amount to little. as they
| are cared for at once. When per-
son comes to me with tired eyes, toe
full in the under lids, complaining OF
headache in the forward portion Of the
head extending backwards to the base
of the skull, ut once test the focus.
ing power OF the organs to see II astig-
matism is not present In nearly
every instance find one or both eyes
working badly.
Upon examination. l find that the
patient has been accustomed to make
enormous drafts upon the most deli.
cate organs Of his body. Constant
application to a set OF books, continu.
GUS reading fine needle and lace work,
with poor lights, are the originating
causes OF the trouble. At first there
is slight burning feeling, temporarily
relieved by applying cold water. but il
surely comes back. The next sensa-
ton is the frequent recurrence o
those nasty. dull headaches 80 fire.
quent that in the last stages before {
physician is consulted that they never
leave. They are there, the temple.
throbbing painfully upon retiring ani
resuming the steady beat as soon a,
the eyes again encounter the light.
AFTER the burning sensation follows
one as OF some foreign body under tn,
lid. As the eye winks the lid CRATES
over the ball and an immediate effor
is made to dislodge the particle, o
course without success. Finally tn,
patient consults an oculist and is con
demned to wear glasses and possibl,
to an absolute rest and cessation from
the work that brought about the trou
BILE.
1t is wonderful to contemplate tn,
number OF cases caused by foolish an,
even criminal carelessness, not to con
slider those where the necessity for la
Dor has caused the trouble. In tn
very young school children cases. tn,
cause is almost wholly due to youthful
inexperience, accumulated by the ne
cessity that exists under our schoo
system for night study. A GROWN.
child should not be allowed. much les
forced, to learn lessons for the mex
day at time when he should b
asleep. Bookkeepers, bank clerks an,
Office employees generally suffer from
astigmstism and are forced TO the us
OF spectacles at an early age.
Climate influences also affect tn
eyes, where the patient IL at the sam
time engaged in extensive reading o
writing. DO you know there are
number OF army officers among tn
Juniors who wear glasses. They stud
hard at first in order to make credit
able showings. Then again they re
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