The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-19
YOU CAN HELP YOUR EYES
They Are Your Best Friends and Should
Not Be lI..Trested. ].
DR.. stYsours OPINION or GLASSES
-Four People IN Ten Have defective
Escsight and 10 Not Know It--In-
crcnsc Of Literature the
Cause Of Trouble.

about 10 per cent OF the people need
TO wear glasses nowadays" said Dir. Sey-
mour in speaking OF eyes. But, OF course,
not all these people wear them. -Four PEG.
pie in ten have some trouble with their
eyes. 1t may be nearsghtedness, 1t may
be simple weakness It may be an incqual-
ity between tho eyes But whatever ii la
there IL way to help II with glasses. q
great many people have trouble with their
eyes and do not know what It u.s. They at
tribute II to overwOrk OF the eye some
times. and sometimes lay ii to headache
or neuralgia, while it is merely the protest
of a defective eye that has been forced b.
VIII power to do work beyond its strength
or to keep up with the other eye.
THE troubles commonest with children
and young people are myopia or near
sight and hyperopa, or farsghtedness,
and the latter preaominates. But many
are farslghtcd who are not conscious OF
1t, and hence the trouble is seemingly less
common than nearsightedness, which is
made apparent by the person SO afflicted
cndeayoring to overcome the detect by
holding the object close to the eye.
THE question Is often asked, what is the
cause of so many young people wearing
hiuoseo: MANY uHJusIiy Cldllu IL IL lOr
aye without stopping to think of the in
creased strain upon the eyes OF young
people of today compared with forty or
nifty years ago. We are living in q pro-
gressivc age and what was considered
fair education then would not meet the
requirements of the times today. Our
schools have wider range of studies.
many of the students taking up n special
course In stcnography telegraphy. tyre
writing. etc., causing much study at night
by artificial light. The amount of litera-
ture of i,ll kinds has enormously In
creased and the young peopsc OF today are
nearly all great readers. Church work,
sunday schools, leagues. circles and seci-
cites of all kinds add their quota of eye
strain 10 the list, then when we add fancy
needle work. crochetlng. einbroidcring.
painting. drawing music and numerous
other kinds of work that Is all performed
under close accommodatfyc effort, thu
question Is reasonably and easily answered.
AS the delicate mechanism of the eye Is
composed largely of nerves and muscles
subject to the same physical changes rs
the rcst Of the nerve and muscular sys-
tenn, II is only natural consequence that
1t should give way under constant and
steady strain at an early age.
when letters and lines seem to blur and
run together, spots or specks floating in
the air, constant frontal headache, dizzy
spells smarting and burning sensation In
the eyes, sleepy, drowsy feelings. objects
appearing double, tears flowing from the
eyes without exciting causes. cloudy vision
AT intervals, uttering and twitching o,
lids, gummed and sticky lids in the morn
ing, pain in the cye-balls and blurrinG
when employed In sewing on dark colored
goods, haloes appearing around the fiams
Of a lamp all point to some impairment
Of some OF the delicate structures of the
eye. If you are troubled with any of tho
above symptoms can you afford to ALLOW
ilnsat.a tn, tIf,ttt tt,sr
tent ndvice2 | desire to become acquaint-
ed with every one In your locality suffering
from eye troubues and have opened by Of
tice for free consultation for this week.
win you continue this plon?"
II can hardly say. but l think not, as
that fear win be obliged to limit the
days after this week..