Pueblo chieftain., 1921-12-24
Ry Fredcric ]. Haskln.

ny
New York City. Dec. 2l.-Last sum-
mer. while standing near a wire fence
In the midst of thunderstorm, IA
year-old boy was stunned by lightning.
A common enough occurrence. you
may think, but there was something
most uncommen about this one. The
boy had always had very poor vision
was nearly blind, in fact-but when
he recovered consciousness after the
lightning bolt and looked about for
his glasses, he found that he did not
need them. lie could see perfectly!
This case gives support to the new
ophthalmology, which declares that
the eye is a perfect instrument and
that II We only learn to use it perfectl,
We can all throw away our glasses.
Myopia. hypermetropia and astigma-
tism arc all defects caused by eye
imperfect visual organs. They are
therefore durable by proper methods of
relaxation. whereas tho old ophthal-
mology held that they were incurable,
being caused by imperfect apparatus,
defective from birth.
According TO DR.. William II. Bates.
the father of the new ophthalmology,
who has examined and treated the eyes
OF hundreds OF thousands OF patients
at his clinic at tho Harlem Hospital
here in New York. seeing Is passive
performance. and with perfect vision
tueTS Is not inc ICRSt ClfOTt. IL Is OIL
when We strain to see at n distance
that wo become myopic or near sight
cd. and when we strain to see at close
quarters that we become hypermetrop-
ic or far-sighted. II VIC would only re-
lax the eyes and not put forth such
tremendous effort, VIC would nnd oui
vision greatly improved.
But how 10 relax the eycs? Or. Bates
prescribcs Remembering black" as ono
OF tho most efficacious methods. Close
your eyes. put the palms Of your hands
across them. being careful to exert no
Der black. Think of tho blackcst thing
You know-a mans silk hat. a totally
black cat or n black velour curtain.
This sounds easy, but ms n matter of
fact 1t is quite tho opposite. Few
people can Imagine perfectly without
mental strain; II they could they would
not have defective vision. For one of
tho strange discoveries OF tho new
ophthalmology Is that IL you can re-
member perfectly. or imagine perfect
ly. you can sec perfectly.
REMEMBSR BLACK
somc people must practice for a long
timc before they can remember black
without at the same time thinking of
other colors. and It is almost impos-
sible to hold the image of any one
black object In tho mind for more than
a couple OF seconds. 1t Is therefore
best not to dwell upon one object but
to skip from one black article to an
othcr-shoes, coat. umbrella, munlcr,
cat. curtain. etc.
When You can remember black per-
fectly with your eyes closed, YOU must
learn to do so with your eyes open.
You may next be asked to remember
the whitcness of snow with the sun
shining on 1t, after which you are to
look card nf Va H.,
order to see n very small and yery
black o. or perhaps merely "a period,
When YOU look at the test card again
You will doubtless be surprised to find
that YOU can read tho bottom line,
which formerly was only n blur
1t is simply matter of relaxation.
The boy who was stunned by lightning
had the process done for him. DIR. Bates
does not know the boy and he IL un-
able to form any definite opinion with