The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-11-09
STARTLING FACTS
REVEALED IN EYE
EXAMINATION HERE
Opelousas School Children
Large Percentage Have
Bad Eyes
DIR. C. b. PENNINGTON
REPORT BY GRADES
Touches on Necessity of Pa
rents Seeing that They are
Properly Fitted

Considering the fact that 80 per
cent%of all people have defective Wis
ion and ought to wear glasses it would
be sad thing for those wearing them
if we had only the ugly spectacles in
vogue some years ago. There was
time when the wearing Of glasses was
not thought Of until ones age made
it necessary to use them for reading.
But since the profession Of Optome-
try has been created and the optome-
trist have begun to correct defective
vision it is not necessary for a person
who requires correcting lenses to go
around half blind during his youth
and only discover in middle gaze that
he should be wearing glasses. Optom-
etrist have made it possible for both
young and old to possess keen, clear
vision, no matter how bad their eyes
may be. The optometrist, with his
skill in detecting and measuring de-
fects and abnormaMties of the eyes,
is able to prescribe absolutely cor
rect lenses for the most difficult case
Of defective vision that exists.
Since the prescribing of glasses has
been so generally accepted by ladies
and young people it was, of course,
necessary to create some styles in
glasses. Any lady or young person
would naturally shudder at the
thought of the ugly little glasses that
the old fashioned optician used to
hook on Grandma or Grandpa 80 they
could read better. In fact ladies' and
young people would never allow their
eyes t. be corrected II they had to
wear the old fashioned ugly specta-
cles of a few years ago They would
prefer to go around half blind than to
allow their appearansce to be jeo-
pardized.
The manufacturers of eye glasses
frames and lenses realized at once
the necessity of creating styles in
glasses just as there are styles in
wearing apparels, shoes, ETC. And
they lost no time in getting on the
job and they have been improving
their work right along SO that now,
pair of gfasses-far from detracting
from ones appearance actually inn
proved the appearance of the wearer,
Many face that has appeared dull
because the eyes were affected with
poor vision-caHsing squint. dropping
lids, etc.-has become bright and az.
tractive, because of properly fitted. 4
stylish glasses. So there is now no
excuse whatever for anyone to main
tain defective vision with its conse,
quent effect upon the eyes and face.
1t is a fact, however, that many
people who would never thing of
wearing shabby clothes, do actually
wear shabby, ugly, cheap glasses and
when they are so CONSPICUOUS, too. You
can hide your shoes under the seat
of the train and you can even con-
ceal a soiled linen by keeping the coat
collar well UP around 1t, but your
glasses are there in full view of every
body to see and yet there are many
people who are spelling their appear
ance by wearing ugly glasses. And
they do this just because they hest
tate to pay a decent price for their
glasses. People who never consider
wearing a gold plated ring on their
finger, Twill ask for pold plated
glasses on their nose just because
they want to save money on their
glasses. Why on earth people are
willing to spend fancy prices for wear
ing apparel and then want to buy the
cheapest glasses is hard to comper.
bend. But it is a feet, nevertheless.
as any optician will tell you.
No one should wear anything but
solid gold glasses. There is no rea-
son for wearing anything else because
gold glasses are not expensive at all
when compared with me prices of
shoes or other wearing apparel. An
other bad habit that many people
have is to visit bargain spectacles
shops where eyes are examined free
and other bats are offered, always
with the view of getting cheap glass
es. 1t is really astonishing why PEG
pie who can afford the BEST Of clothes
will always try to buy cheap, unbe-
coming glasses, fitted by unskilled,
men.
From the test herewith given 1t is
clear to all that something should be
done at once to have defects correct
ed. 1t would be we'll for each parent
to take grade for grade and notice
the percentage Of children in each
grade with normal eyes and the per-
centage with defective vision.
Report of eye examination for OPP
elousas high school:
1st., grade, So per cent have normal