The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-12-03

EiAsSos. The cheap glasses in the stores .
eat about hait OF the people. they 90
~ ntsru, and can not lie improved upoA
a t..s test shows nothing wrong.
ABOUT one old person IL four uses out
Gle eye IN reading. This is because OF
wrong glasses. The best oculists often
hpcnG hours ir testing the eyes Of the
.Cung. and then fail TO get -he right
classes. A. for the eyes of the aged. they
Ssc usually gone over in q perfunctory
'-1d stsreotyped way. and given pair OF
Tiugriilers, aad these suit only about haI-
- them. The other half have astgma-
tism. together with unlike eyes Whi.2
eye imperfec tions may not cause as mucn
penn TO the aged as to the young, they
Iirtcffere far more with the proper use oil
I the eyes after middle age than before.
Il'he eyes OF the young are hard enough
- ht, but the eyes of the aged even
airder IL there is the least astigmatism or
. 90 hcrerce IN the size of the two eyes.
g., 1c.ES IS the CHIEF and about the only /
.'i0tcTt that most old people get out o. /
q -, ord no doubt .ariy dotage often I
'nTrs fron not being able TO keep the 1
.l-i-d active ~ reading. The routine way :
.Ht testing tic ewes or the aged is g Ereat /
u, FOR most Of them can read or see
tcit aa sci as ever y they only get the
-sht glasses. Many do this With ped
r.+rs glasses.
ia farsightednCss the eyebaN is too
s"aall or too short: IN nearsightedness. too
.s1g or too large. and in astigmatsm II il
perfectly rounded. Astigmatiam causes
acre eye trouble and interferes more with
reading than all other troubles put to-
gether. People who have every kind OF
mysterious eye trouble. when properly ex-
amined are usually found TO have astig-
: matism. 1t causes blurring of the PRINT,
pain In the head and eyes, nervousness
fretfulness. etc. and Is most apt to give
trouble when the focusing muscle gets
weak from sickness. overwork, etc, or
when the crystalline lens gets hard from
i. age. Astigmatism Is such difficult inn
perfection to properly estimate that
glasses have not yet benefited astig-
matte eyes anything like as much as they
should have.
Imperfections. especially nearsighted-
Z. ness and astigmatism. are apt to be more
pronounced I'm one eye than in the other
: and worse still. are usually so badly
+ mixed up that glass which fits one eye
We uld inture the other, the eyes being so
unlike. Many with unlike eyes, united
with astigmatism. require "A pair of spec
s tscles that would fit nobody else.
7. a few have eyeballs so imperfect that
"A they are deformed and the focusing
mechanism is powerless to make the sight
. good even for distance. Such eyes re-
81 quire the thickest and heaviest glasses.
ans, these have to be worn nearly all the
'e time.
Restoring and preserving the sight with
r. glasses IL one of the greatest and broad
est as well as one of the most difficult
% trG inches of medicine. The glass Is one
o. the greatest powers in the science OF
medicine, for is II not like a splint to a
y. broken leg like a bed for a tired back
IKE opium for pain. like an artificial limt
D. to the MANNED or "A crutch to the Grip
III pled2 II acts like both sleep and exer'
else. IL is return Of youth TO agec
eyes. IL is often perfection and success
l. IN life instead OF imperfection and fail
s. ure II may mean all that blindness Of
sight all that the eye itself means Sci
- ence by glasses has perpetuated the lif
: of the mind a quarter OF a century. II no
a. longer. III science and wisdom could d
IL as much for the other fading powers o
IN. life as spectacles can for the eyes Their
ht might be many frisky centenarians. Spec
m Itacles are often the means of a ripene
ne wisdom. and should be It's badge and sym
Oh Dol.
en- Perfectly fitting glasses take every b
est Of the strain of the focusing muscles
and balance and ease and give the eye
lui their proper exercise. even in moderat
A. reading. on the surface this locks as
,er rood glasses ought to be worn all u
- time, but this IL far from right. for sue
iui glasses do so much OF the work of n
focusing muscles that these would b
he come weak from not having proper wor
as Until late in life the focusing mechanics
nj Is so powerful that IL can make the sig
Mr. OF a very imperfect eye. or from bad
=, fitting glass. about perfect. This Is on
T. ing TO the soft crystalline lens. Late
'er' life the lens hardens. when even slig
impcrfections give trouble in readin
10 tren perfectly fitting glasses are all q
the more necessary else too strong glass
q, have to be used and the print magnih
- so much that only one eye is used. for {
WI more print Is magniied the closer a
In closer II must be held to the eyes T
aTn. aged cannot hold print close like Oh
the dien and still read with both eyes at {
O same time. Old people who hold pr
a. close read with only one eve.
glass that magniies a little bit. or
:" weak astigmatism glass, VIII give mC
or less relief TO more than half "
need spectacles. These glasses will
- rights nj but few-in fact, their true
Ho Is very limited, for they suit only
simplest imperfections of the eyes.
81 about half who wear glasses all the ii
have just some such compromise. Neitl
! an knowledge nor skill is required TO y
ON scribe such. Just such glasses and ST
fling fits as these have made, and for a x
..d- time will make, fat sinecures for trav
ms spectacle experts and quack Of
al clans.
or The old rule. Wear glasses all
not tire" should be changed 10
- glasses Just as little as possible" So
wear spectacles for years, and then
lucky chance lose them, only to md
ring Trey get along better without. After we
re,r ing glasses only few days many
10 tn, print looks worse to the naked g
d. than before. This Is sure way TO
., that glasses are wrong Most people Y
49, troublesome imperfections of the {
cnI.not leave their glasses of even for
-. 4. hour or so without discomfort Thi!
.,,.I tecause they have wrong glasses.
49, right glasses can be put on and IA
- or at any time with ease and no
-. discomfort following than putting on
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