The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-11-17
FACES NOT SHAPELY.
Peculiar Facts About People Who Wear
Glasses.

Peculiar Facts About People Who Wear
Glasses.
The faces of people who wear glasses
nay not, as a rule, resemble one an
other, but they are very generally faces
he features of which are deformed. A
lass or pair of glasses on a persons
ose proclaims the owner to possess
nything but truly shaped face. To
ay it a little differently, a pair of
,lasses, when of necessity worn, con-
titute no ice to the world that Nature
vas in a slurring mood when she nodded
he face of the wearer. You laugh and
ay: That's nonsense! Some of the
inest looking people [ ever saw wore
slasses." That means you never exam
ned those "6nest-looking people tenn
Die by temple, cheek by cheek, ear by
EAR etc. You overlooked a fact that in
;en to one the shape of the head from
he tip of their ears forward to point
between their eyes was irregular, or
twisted.
Yes; something of bad build mars the
architecture of every face that is accom-
panied by glasses. And it is this bad
ouild of the features that frequently
affects the eyes and calls for the arti-
icial aids to sight
The normal eye of human being is
nearly a perfect globe in FORM The
:ornea or front portion of it protrudes
more than the rest and has the shape
more than the rest of an ellipsoid than
sphere The entire coat of the eye is a
tough, fibrous membrane, the front
portion of which is transparent and
called the cornea; back, or on each side,
is the sclerotic, or, commonly called,
the white of the eye" which by its
toughness, strength, and elasticity
gives form and strength to the member
TO this are attached the muscles that
keep the eye in place and controls its
movements Inside of this sclerotic is
thin membrane, the choroid coat, the
ends of which are filled with black pig
ment, which absorbs the light as soon
as it has done its work on the retina
Inside of the choroid is the retina,
which is continuation of expansion of
the optic nerve. The back part of the
eyeball, about three-quarters of its
space, is filled with the vitreous humor,
or jelly-like substance In front of
the eye, within the cornea, is the
aqueous humor, fluid quite like water,
trifie salty. Suspended in this aque-
Gus humor is the iris, thin membrane
or curtain that easily expands or con-
tracts to regulate the size of the pupil
Its function is to control the amount of
light admitted to the interior of the
eye. The color of the iris forms the
color of the eye, whether it be blue,
brown, or gray. Between the aqueous
and vitreous humors is the crystalline
lens, double convex in form, with the
greater conveXity toward the back. 1t
is about one-third of an inch in diane
ter and one-sixth of an inch in thick.
ness. In young person it is very
elastic and hardens as age advances
The lens is composed of a Jelly sub
stance and in layers like those of an
onion. Attached to the edge of the
lens and to the sclerot ic are the ciliary
muscles whose actions give the proper
focus.
The eye, then, may be looked upon as
sort of Photographic camera de.
signed by its refracting power to pro-
duce a small and inverted image on the
retina of objects looked at The impress.
sion produced ON the retina is conducted
to the brain by the optic nerve, which
must be able to interpret correctly the
impressions conveyed to it. When the
impressions are blurred and indistinct.
the eye is defective in its refraction, or.
In other words, the vision is poor And
1T is this class of complaints that the
optlcian has most to deal with.
Errors of refraction may result from
many causes, but chiefly from hyper
metropia, or far sight, condition of
the eye wherein the member is short
from front to back, or the lens has not
sufficient power to shorten the RAYS of
light SO they will focus upon the retina
instead of behind it All eyes are hy-
permetropic at birth, but the eyeball
increases in length with the rest of the
body, and the hypermetropia diminishes
until the eye becomes normal.
The symptoms of hypermetropia in
an adult are inability to look at small
objects or printed matter for anv
length of time; vision blurs and the per
son is compelled to stop and rub the
eyes. This for minute seems to clear
the vision, but the trouble returns again.
and after the strength of the muscles
become exhausted the work must cease.
Many children who are troubled with
hypermetropia of high degree bring
their books close to their eyes. Such
children are supposed to be nearsghted,
md concave glasses are given them.
which only increases the trouble in
stead of helping it.
The defect that causes more trouble
han all Others is astigmatism, a diff
.ulty usually located in the cornea and
tue to overcurvature of same, the rays
If light passing through the cornea so
that they do not focus together at the
anne point This trouble comes most
frequently as the result of want of
ymmetry about the persons head and
ace. Headache is usually a very
marked symptom of eye trouble instead
If unhealthfulness in connection with
,ther portions of the body. At least
his is claimed by the most notable