Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-02-22
PEOPLE WHO WEAR CLASSES.
Their Features Are seldom shapely and
Are Lacking In symmetry.

other but they are very generally
faces the features of which are de-
formed. A pair of glasses on per-
sons nose proclaims the owner To pos
sess anything but truly shapely face.
To say it little differently, pair of
glasses, when of "A necessity worn, con-
stitute notice to the world that nature
was in a slurring mood when she
nodded the face of the wearer. You
laugh and say: That's nonsense!
Some of the finest looking people |
ever saw wore glasses" That means
you never examined those finest
looking" people temple by temple.
cheek by cheek, ear by ear, etc. You
overlooked fact that in ten to one
the shape of the head from the tip of
their ears forward to point between
their eyes was irregular or twisted.
says the Cincinnati Commercial Ga
zette.
Yes, something of bad build mars
the architecture of every face that is
accompanied by glasses. And it is
this bad build of the features that fire.
quenty affects the eye and calls for
the artificial aids to sight.
The normal eye of human being is
nearly a perfect globe in form. The
cornea 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 eve is
tough, iibrous 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 elastic
ity. gives form and strength to the
member. To this are attached the
muscles that keep the eye in place
and control its movements. Inside of
this sclerotic is thin me m brane, the
choroid coat, the ends of which are
filled with black pigment, which alb
serbs the light as soon as it has done
its work on the retina.
Inside of the choroid is the retina,
which is continuation or expansion
of the optic nerve. The back part of
the eyeball, about three-quarters of its
space, is filled with the vitreous HUI
NOR, or a jelly-like substance. In front
of the eye, within the cornea is the
aqueous humor, a fluid quite like wa
ter, trifle salty. Suspended in this
aqueous humor is the ris,a thin men,
brane or curtain that easily expands
or contracts to regulate the size of the
pupil. Its function is to control the
amount of light admitted to the inte-
rior 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 conyexity toward the
back. 1t is about one-third of an inch
in diameter and one-sixth of an inch
in thickness. In young person it is
very elastic, and hardens as age adj
vances. The lens is composed of a
jelly substance and in layers like those
of an onion. Attached to the edge of
the lens and to the sclerotic are the
ciliary muscles, whose action gives the
proper focus.
The eye, then, may be looked upon
as Il sort of Photographic camera de-
signed by its refracting power to pro-
duce small and inverted image on
the retina of objects looked at. The
impression produced on the retna 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 it is this class of
complaints that the optician has the
most to deal with.
Errors of retraction 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,. Al eyes are
hypermetropic at birth, but the eye
ball increases in length with the rest
of the body and the hypermetropia
diminishes until the eye becomes ncr-
NAL.
The symptoms of hypermetropia in
an adult are inability to look at small
objects or printed matter for any
length of time; vision blurs and the
person is compelled to stop and rub
the eyes. This for minute seems to
clear the vision, but the trouble re-
turns again, and after the strength of
the muscles becomes 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 near
sighted and concave glasses are given
them, which only increase the trou BILE.
instead of helping it,
The defect that causes more trou BILE
than all others is astigmatism, diff
Guilty usually located in the cornea
and due to overcurvature of the same,
the rays of light passing through the
cornea so that they do not focus to-
gether at the same point. This trou-
BILE comes most frequently as the re-
suit of want of symmetry about the
persons head and face. Headache is
usually a very marked symptom of
eye trouble instead of unhealthfulness
in connection with other portions of
the body. At least this is claimed by
the most notable oculists in the world.
When person is inclined to hold his
head on ono Si1p in loolip, ho