Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-12-07
sPEcrAcLEs ON THE STREET.
Every Other Psrssn One Meets sesns 90
Have Imper1ec< Vision.


Have Imperfeet Vision.
Comparatively few persons nowaday,
are blessed with normal or perfect
eyesight. The opticians are authority
for this statement, II is TO be pre-
sumed they know what they ara talk.
ing about Children wearing spec
tacles in the streets. in the schools
and III public places are almost as
numerous as the members of that
large class who have been compelled
to resort toehe artificial aid of glasses
because of sight made dim by years,
You often hear per>ons of your &C
quaintance say: Il see so many
young men and young women wear
ing eyeglasses with snowy little gold
chains attachments or gold bowed
spectacles every time go down town.
Why is it? Has it become the
fashion, Is it considered stylish?
At the theater, when 1 go to church,
or to the restaurant or club, or to a
swell reception I noUice the same
tendency among young people and
those in tle prime of life to wear
glasses"
For every person, young or OLD.
who resorted TO spectacles few years
ago there are ten now. Spectacles
used to be the signals of advancing
age and the companion Of gray hairs
and wrinkled faces. If a young man
in country village put on glasses be.
cause Of some defect in his vision a
hn nhsarr ~
curiosity and was looked upon as 9
coxcomb by all the yokels. To veal
spectacles was to open a way for ridi.
cule as surely as when he appeared
on the village street with his first
chimneY-pot hat, So the young miss
in her teens, who, because o: near.
sightedness, could not see the star:
at night, was the innocent cause ot
gossip about her pedantry as soon a;
she put on glasses These idea:
about nature supplying everything
needful for the young have suffered q
revolution.
Thirty years ago." said an opti
cian, 1--WE made only about eighty diff
ferent combinations with ground
glasses for defects of sight. We now
make over 400, 900 different combina.
tions. All this has been accomplished
through the study of astigmatism and
the grinding of astigmatic glasses.
This defect is described by opticians
as condition in which there is a diff
ference in the refractory power (and
hence focal distance) of the diameters
OF the media(cornea and lens )through
which light passes while entering the
eve. Instead OF rays of light being
focused to point on the retina there
is an oval or line formed. Astigma-
tism may occur not only in an emme-
tropic or normal eve, but also in those
10 which nearsightedness or farsight-
edness exists. So, you see, it has a
very wide sweep and requires many
thousands Of different combinations
in glasses.
Reading the iudistinct print OF
cheap novels Injuries many eyes in
young people. In former years when
persons suffering from astigmatism 10
some form or other which caused head
ache, nervousness or lassitude, called
on an occulist he would prescribe
blue, green or smoked glasses to give
them relief. But they went home aud
got no relief. AT present we correct
niuety-niue in every hundred OF these
cases with plain glasses properly
ground and in proper combinations,
Another thing that occulists have
learned is that any defect of vision
will manifest itself quicker in a per.
son weakened by disease than in an
ordinary strong and healthy one. Up
10 the age OF forty strong constitu-
ton, have noticed, may continue to
overcome almost any defect in the
eyes. But as soon as the bodily
strength begins to fail the defect
comes to the front and the sight be-
gins to weaken. II you straiN tEs
optic nerve by forcing 1t todo what il
should not do you are certain soGe
day to paw the penalty The sight
may not only be permanently injured,
but the nervous system may become
deranged and the brain affected.
Most young persons who wear glasSe:
are afflicted, / find, with myopia OF
nearsightedness and with astig ma.
tism. The reason then why more
glasses are worn than formerly, is be-
cause more defects can now be rene
died by them and more people are be
ginning to tud out that their visioI
is not what nature intended 1t should
be, e,-ChicaTo Herald.