The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-31
SCHOOLGIRLS Abuse Their Ewes
BY MARGARET E. sANGsTER.

~ ONSIDERING, Dorothy that your
IL eyes are not only given you for
ornament. but for use. and that
as they have to last you during your
whole life, you ougt to take more
care of them than you do. What color
are they-hazel, gray. blue, brown or
black? Whatever their color may be
it is the one that best suits your face,
and whether you know it or not, your
friends are OF the opinion that you
have the prettiest eyes in the world
A great deal of expression is in the
eye. Eyes that are wide-Open and
straightforward, that look others fully
in the face, that have nothing to hide,
are very beautiful eyes, whoever has
them. OF course they are set off by
the long fringing lashes and the we'll
defined eyebrows that, so to speak,
constitute their frame. No girl can be
regarded as plain or unattractive who
has good, clear eyes, with the silken
lashes and delicately penciled brows
that artists and poets rave about.
! What troubles me is to notice the
liberties many young girls take with
their eyes. They sit reading at that
hour of the day when the light is wan
ing, and the effort to discern what is
on the page is continuous. If 1t is
hard for you to see, your eyes are he
ing unduly taxed. There is a popular
impression that young people strain
their eyes by gazing at distant objects
They much oftener strain them badly
by fixing them too closely on objects
near at hand. Thus, the near-sighted
person or the person whose eyes do
not see equally. is always subject to a
strain which is wearing on the eyes
and is the obscure cause of many
headaches.
If YOU find in the school room that
you do not easily read lines or figures
on the blackboard, or if you have
trouble in looking out places on the
map, or hunting up words and defini-
lions in the dictionary, you may be
very sure that your eyes need atten-
ton. Very likely an oculist would. help
you at once by fitting you with the
right lens, and you would realize what
you had not known before, that you
had been doing your work with a
handicap that put you at a disadvan-
tage No one can do her best if she
feels fretted, irritated and harassed A
girl who is nervous cannot stand well
in her classes.
Not long ago, a girl friend of mine
who had devoted many hours of every
week to music for some years, found
the notes blurring before her. and suf-
fered a good deal of torture and pain
when she attempted to read the pages
that had hitherto been as plain as
1sr.Ax sE,a
suited told her that she had so reck-
lessly used her eyesight that, although
a mere girl, she had the eyes of an old
woman
I should be very sorry to think that
any girl who reads this would make
such a mistake as this, for it literally
would shadow the rest of her life.
In reading, let the light fall over the
left shoulder, and sit so that it will do
SO rather than facing it if you can.
Do not attempt to study with an in
sufficient light. A students lamp that
burns steadily is a good investment.
Frequent bathing with cold water
strengthens the eyes. 1t is a good
plan to fill a tumbler to the brim with
pure water and then wink the eyes in
it so that a drop or two will sift I'M
der the lids.
/ A pIS SICldn mas SdlQ Wnen you get
anything in the eye in order to get it
out the lower lid should be pulled
down, the eye should look down to-
ward the floor and slightly toward the
nose. If nothing is found in this part
then the upper lid can be turned back
and search made here" One cannot
very well do this for herself, and the
friend who does ii must have steady
hand and a very deft touch.
Remember While working, to sit as
erect as you can. Do not stoop. Do
not read in train o. carriage, where
the constant psevement OF the book
obliges a Continual change of focus.
Very fine Beedlew0Tk is trying TO the,
eyes.
4 wen-known Oculist has said that
the i6eal book, has good type, well
spsSsd on unglazed paper. A book
so5uld be held nearly on a level with
she eyes and, if very heavy, should be
supported by rest. Do not read or
study when lying Gown.
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| / wonder II / may say something
here that has not so much to do with
} the eye itself as with the brain behind
it. There are people who are much too
quick to see faults and defects in
others. They are critical and censori-
Gus, and you may be sure if there is 4
flaw anywhere they will pounce upon
it without mercy. Look for the blam-
ishes in your own conduct and charac-
ter, If you choose. But take COOL care