The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-09-28
ROLL YOUR EYES AROUND.
Simple Exercises That VIII Improve
Muscles and Otherwise Benefit.
(NeW York Press. }

Quit using your eyes as if you were
chicken. Some poet very prettily
said the eye is the window of the soul
He, of course, did not know where the
soul is situated, but
1t is the poets pen that gives to airy
nothing local habitation and a name. y
The chickens eyes are on opposite
sides Of a fat head, and like the eyes OF
some fishes are fiat, instead of round OF
oval, having absolutely nothing in COM
mon. When the chicken looks at the
sky it turns its head to one side, seeing
up above with only one optic, while the
other watches the ground.
The almost universal habit of turn
ing the head in whichever OBJECTION YOU
look deprives the eye of the exercise to
which it is entitled. The law of vision
is such that, when your eyes are set
straight to the front, you can see in al
most every direction, except behind
your head. Every now and then YOU
see a woman with eyes that seem to
roll in their sockets taking in every
thing without a suggestion of head
movement. Those are the eyes that
drive men to distraction. Ok eyes.
Honest eyes. Usually brown eyes.
Open eyes. Although different from the
small, ferret eyes of the detective,
which pretend to be looking at the
ground, yet see sidewise out Of both
Sits.
Sight is Gods best gift to man. The
other senses amount to nothing in
comparison. We get along very well
without taste, smell, hearing, feeling;
but when the eyes are dead the soul has
no window The light of life is gone.
Exercise your eyes. Hold your head
still, as if in a wise, or one Of the steel
CTOtches of the old-fashioned photog-
Tapher (when it took three minutes to
take picture), and roll your optics
around. Look in every direction-up,
down, to the right, to the left, and eY-
cry style of Oblique-without moving
the head. All the nerves, veins, and ar
teries will be strengthened. The mus
cles will be improved a thousandfold.
The lachrymal glands will be excited
sufficiently to wash the ball perfectly
and seeing will be a delight. Goodbye
TO glasses.
Get on the housetop once a week and
spend an hour looking at magnificent
distances. The trouble with all Of US
city folk is that me never see beyond
our noses. Possibly a few shrewd fell
lows sharpen their glances across the
street; but you can number them on
the tips of your fingers. They are
grafters. Look into the eye OF the COM
nonest sailor. It seems a Ennion miles
deep. Take Captain Watts of the Dusi-
tania, his eyes are wells as deep as the
ocean as high as the sky. Take a po-
licenan on a long beat, who wants to be
promoted by General Bingham. His
eyes are glorious. And Bingham can
scarcely see across his desk.
The eye that merely looks in the di-
rection the head is facing is but little
better than a pane Of glass in the face.
Mothers, impress upon your girls the
need Of eye cultivation. Teach them the
advantages Of the AleXandran eye.
The queen Of England has half-timid
way of rolling her ocular orbs over an
entire assemblage, taking in a whole
roomful at a sweep, as it were; and
each person grapples the happy thought
that her majesty is sharpening her
chances particularly at him, or her. |
This is done without a movement of the
head. Mrs. Grover Cleveland had the
same way with her when in the White |
House. and it was her chief charm, |
aside from her beauty, for it flattered
all who attended the levees.