Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-15
pursuing BROW ONE FAULT
Squirting Not Conducive to Appear
ance of Youth.
TINY WRINKLES GROW DEEPER
Become Deep Creases From Practices
That Have No Reason
to Be.

of the most important features. cosmeti-
cally speaking-the eyes says a writer
in the Boston Herald.
"Instinctively We look at the eyes of an
individual with whom We are conversing
because they carry the expression and
reveal the inner man or woman. Yet how
often We see these beautiful features dis
torted and disfgured merely through the
cultivation of some pernicious habit
Not only the expression of the eye it
self, but also it's contour and facial sur
roundings may be materially and perma-
nently altered by some such habit as
needless squirting OF foolish winking or
other unnecessary use and manipulation
of the delicate muscles Of this region of
the face.
Often during conversation or while
occupied in reading writing one may
see an individual screwing up the features
and contracting and squirting the eyes.
or unconsciously pursuing the brow or
mouth Not infrequently this Is done
through NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. imitation
hablt thus contracted may continue
through life. much to the annoyance Of
the individual himself or herself.
Defects That Ensue.
Such a persistent use of the muscles
more commonly the former-creates tiny
wrinkles and later deeper creases at the
angles of the eye and elsewhere. The
lids, too. often become dropping and un-
duly full. and an eye that nature designed
TO be beautiful and attractive becomes
tiny. puckered and obscured all through
nasty habit that should have been in
stantly corrected in it's incipiency.
THE Ill effect does no. always stop
here, either
THE unconscious use OF the muscles
may grow upon the individual until the
deeper muscles OF the eye and orbit be-
come involved, and then a true squint,
strabismus or crossed eye. may be devel-
oped.
Correct your children. then / implore
you: as soon as you notice the slightest
tendency toward the contraction of a
serious habit such as this
1t should be remembered that not infre-
quently there may lie at the basis of the
habit some congenial or functional de-
feet. The vision may be incorrect or de-
hcient, or the power of co-ordinating the
muscles may be defective. Therefore,
An early visit TO a good oculist should be
regarded imperative
1T may be that the temporary use of
glasses OF mild power will work wonders
in correcting and finally overcoming the
unpleasant and disfiguring habit, simply
because the more serious and fundamen-
tai defect has been corrected
CuCH d COuTSc OIL treatment, III ADOPTED
early enough, may result in so great an
improvement in the eyesight that the con-
tinuous use Of glasses In later life may
be averted altogether.
Habit Defects.
Most of the unpleasant facial disfigure-
ments that mar our friends and annoy us
have resulted in just such an unneces-
sary way as this. Habit defects 1
shall call them, for that term will remain
with you much longer than if 1 merely
wrote of them without giving them a
special designation.
ut is interesting to note the effect Of
painful light. either of the sun or that
Spripging from some artificial source, as
an arc light. upon the eyes Not only
do the pupils instantly contract in order
to shut off the brilliant rays from the
sensitive retina. but the lids tightly close,
the brow contracts. the angles OF the
mouth are refracted and the cheeks are
puffed up.
IF you do not believe that all this is
true, try the experiment for yourself with
a candle or electric lamp in front Of a
good mirror
Now the moral of all this is obvious. If
the face is constantly turned toward the
sun or other source of light without ada-
quate protection to arrest or modify the
powerful light rays, whole host of un-
necessary and disfguring wrinkles will
be born not in night, but in compare
lively short space of time.
THE lesson to be deduced is this:
avoid too brilliant a light. Use lamp
shades and other devices to modulate
and modify the artificial light of your
homes and Offices If the eyes are I'M
duly sensitive to highland this is always
10 be regarded as unnatural and patho-
logic-visit an oculist, not an optican,
and have the defect discovered and cor
rected. Then the use of dark or smoked
glasses until the sensitive organs have
regulated themselves will be most eff
,cient in preventing the requirement OF
habit wrinkles and other defects that
may become both embarrassing and dis
figuring to the wearer as we'll as unpleas-
ant and unsightly to others"