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CARE or THE EYES,
An Old Optioian Furnishes Some vslua
BILE Hints,


An Old Optioian Furnishes Some valua.
BILE Hints
Twas an optician about fifteen years,
and for ten years of my earlier life my
eyes were sorely afflicted; therefore, /
hope to be able to say something of
use to many. At twenty-six l was
alarmed about my weak eyes, and
resolved to see an expert oculist.
After telling him l was studying, and
that l wore green glasses, ETC., he said:
Throw away your green glasses and
get smoked ones, as dense as you can
conveniently see through. That color
is best. Your eye is only weak Let
up nights as soon as your eyes begins
to hurt. Wash them in pure
water dozen times or more
per day. Never put the best
liniment, however highly recon-
mended, into them, for that cornea
coat is clearer than any window glass,
and once dimmed it will be so forever.
Always rub the eyes toward the nose,
for all impurities must pass through the
duct into the nose. When you cry the
nose will run. Colored lenses do not
magnify, though they can be made to-"
l did as directed for ten years and now
have fairly strong eyes. While my
sight was weakened by overstudy, in
other persons it may be from another
cause. If the pupil is larger at night
than in the morning, it is because the
sight is overworked. But the eyeball
may be afflicted, or score of ailments
which the body is heir to may cause
the sight to be affected. But in no in
stance would we put anything but
water in it and liniments all around it,
and never get weary in caring for it;
for while it is the window of the soul"
it is the most important sense of the
five
Neither will we abuse it by going to
church or elsewhere and sit where ar.
tifcial light can penetrate it, or sit at
the table or desk without shade and
read or work with our shoulder or
back to the light. There should be
nothing white under the light Kero-
sene lights are sruinous to the eye -
ditto electric arc-lights. We have seen
scores who have dinged the transparent
cornea coating by working before hot
fires, and it never recovers, as firemen
of engines and of fire companies,
cooks, etc, can testify. This delicate
coating will not stand as much heat as
the face. We should not read when
on the sick list, for this member is a
part of the body and sick, too. Neither
when lying down, as it wants rest
when brother members are taking it.
Nor should we get up nights to read,
nor before breakfast, nor directly after
meals, and especially while eating, as
the blood is called to the stomach.
Nor peek by twilight, nor wash them
in the same water as we have the
hands, nor wipe them with a dirty
towel after others, nor try on specta-
cles of those who have weak eyes, for
reasons obvious.
Cross-eyes are too often caused in
babyhood by older ones taking the
child's attention over the head of the
cradle. Near-sighted people should be
happy with the thought that their
eyes, if born so. will grow better as
age increases. provided their spectacles
are changed, say once a year, for a
higher number, though they may not
see quite as well for month.
Eyes of different foci, if not more
than three or four numbers different,
| should have lenses of the same foci or
they will keep them different; but
in the focus it is necessary to have the
lenses the same, when reading. if the
letters seem blurred, get spectacles.
| 1t is mistaken notion that if you be-
| gin with them you will be confined to
them Don't buy nose glasses, except
| for momentary use, as you scarcely
will adj just them twice alike on
the nose. Not so with spectacles.
By all means buy pebbles,
which are stone; they preserve
the eye by being much clearer than
glass lenses. BY the way, all cheap
lenses are made of common window
| glass, full of small points, as these fine
| points are before your sight they will
in time ruin the eye. Buy a cheap
coat, but never cheap spectacles, for
you will want good eye in old age.
| Here l declare that he who sells glass
lenses for pebbles deserves a greater
penalty than he who sells oleo for but
ter, and he is doing more harm to the
community. How to know pebble
lenses: Get a pair you know are glass
and touch your tongue to each and the
pebbles will be cold, and if you can
see the edge. it is white. Before we
wore pebbles we changed lenses once a
year. Now it is five or six years be.
fore we need change to an older mum.
Der. Gold bows strengthen the eye,
besides being cheaper in the end.
Should a horse step on them dime
will straighten them.-Troy Times
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