The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-10-01

responsibility as a parent if YOUR
child or children have the above
symptoms to attend to the removal
Oh tue cause at once. Before school
begins have your family physician
examine the children and if adeno,ds
exist have them removed. With
proper-care there is no danger TO the
child, and often in ten or twenty
minutes a morbid condition which has
existed tor years may be practically
cured. By neglect you subject YOUR
children to frequent colds, and often
more serious disease, like tubercul-
osis, finds these diseased glands an
open door for entrance. Give vour
children a chance, by doing what YOU
can to give them healthy bodies and
healthy minds. Your care now is
necessary if you would do your best
Tor, those entrusted to your keeping.
Delays are dangerous.
Do You Need Glasses?
he human eye is wonderful ~
strumcnt, but-at least under the try-
ing conditions Of modern life-it often
tails to meet the demands we put
upon 1t, and serious troubles of all
sorts result because we do not help
1t out by getting glasses to supply
natures defects.
Particularly at the time when child
rem begin their school life the new
and difficult uses made of the eve
often bring eye strain and a host of
resultant disorders.
The signs of beginning eye strain
may be quite different in different
cases. At first only a slight ia
tigue may be noticed after reading or
sewing. The eyes may water easily
or the eyeball may become bloodshot
or the eyelids red. Some persons
whose eyes are overtaxed show it by
nervousness and others by drowsiness
after the eyes have been used. Head
aches of all sorts and even attacks
of vertigo may be merely the symp-
toms of>eye trouble.
The eye has a remarkable power
called the power of accommodation
| When you look from a distant OBJ
Ject to nearby one you notice that
It takes few seconds to focus the
| eye so that you can see it clearly
| t@il'lS lllloNlSS dl OOlIll dNllllR anu
changing the shape of the eye to adj
just it to the different distance, some
what as you change the focus of a
camera according to the nearness oil
the object to be photographed. II
the eye is abnormal in any respect
these muscles have to work too hard
and, even, though we may by this I'm.
conscious effort be able to see clearly
yet the strain is there all the time.
We are seeing by a constant effor
in such case, while if glasses were
provided to correct the defect o.
vision they would do this work fol-
us and save all the strain. Many {
miserable hour in the future would
be saved by doing this in time
A careful and thorough examina
ton of the eyes should be made. II
order to do This properly it is Otter
necessary to put drops" into the eye
drugs which relax the little muscle.
and put the whole eye into its norma
state so that one can see what thu
condition of the eye is when it il
relieved of strain.
The effect of properly adjusted
glasses upon happiness and efficienc.
is often miraculous. 1t is no
at all uncommon to find a child il
school who has been dull and fretfu
and backward without anyone guess
ing the reason. An examination o
the eyes reveals serious defects, ant
glasses correct them. The whole ma
ture of the child and its place in tn
school community change.
Glasses or no glasses, there ar
some things that cannot be don
with the eyes except at grave peri
Too little light strains the eyes, am
so does too much. A direct glar
right in the face is quite as bad a
room that is too dim to see prop
crly. For reading, sewing or othe
work which requires close and &C
curatc vision the light should com
from above and steady and shout
come from above and behind.