Year: 1875

THE SdnitGri0n gives some excellent
rules for the care of the eyes:


When writing, reading, drawing, sew
ing, etc, always take care that


l. The room is comfortably cool and the
feet warm


9. There is nothing tight about the
neck;


B. There is plenty of light without daz-
zling the eyes;


4. The sun does not shine directly on
the object we are working upon;


5. The light does not come from the
front; it is best when it comes over the
left shoulder;


g. The head is not very much bent over
the work;


Z. The page is nearly perpendicular to
the line Of sight; that is, that the eye is
nearly opposite the middle of the page, for
an object held slanting is not seen so
clearly;


8. That the page or other object is not
less than fifteen inches from the eye.


Near-sightedness is apt to increase rap
idly when a person wears in reading the
glasses intended to enable him to see dis
tant objects.


In any case when the eyes have any de-
feet avoid fine needle-work, drawing of
fine maps and all such work except for
very short tasks, not exceeding half an
hour each and in the morning


Never study or write before breakfast by
candlelight.


Do not lie down when reading.
If your eyes are aching from freight,
from looking at the snow, from over-work,
or other causes, pair of colored glasses
may be advised to be used for while.
! Light blue or grayish blue is the best
shade, but these glasses are likely to be
abused, and usually are not to be worn
except under medical advice. Almost all
those persons who continue TO wear col
ored glasses, having perhaps first received
advice to wear them from medical men,
would be better without them. Travelling
venders of spectacles are not TO be trusted (;
their wares are apt TO be recommended as
ignorantly and indiscrimlnately as in the
times of the Vicar of Wakefield"


If you have to hold the pages of Har-
per's Magazine nearer than fifteen inches
in order to read it easily, it is probable
that you are quite near-sighted. If you
have to hold it two or three feet away be-
fore you see easily, you are probably far
sighted In either case it is very desirable
to consult physician before gettinga pair
of glasses, for a mtsft may permanently
injure your eyes.





squirting or rolling them.


The eyes are often troublesome when the
stomach is out of order.


Avoid reading or sewing by twilight or
when debilitated by recent illness, espe-
cially fever.


Every seamstress ought to have cut
ting-out table, to place her work on such
plane with reference to the line of Wis
ion as to make it possible 10 exercise a
close scrutiny without bending the head
or figure much forward.
Usually, except for aged persons OF
chronic invalids, the winter temperature
in wOrk-rooms ought not to exceed sixty
or sixty-five degrees. To sit with impu'
nifty in room at lower temperature
some added clothing will be necessary
The feet of a student or seamstress should
be kept comfortably warm while tasks
are being done. Slippers are bad. In
winter the temperature of the lower part
of the room is apt to be ten to fifteen de
grees lower than that of the upper
! 1t is indispensable IN all forms of labol
requiring the exercise of vision of minute
objects that the worker should rise from
his task now and then, take few deep in
SEPARATIONS with closed mouth, stretch tn,
frame out into the most erect posture
throw the arms backward and forward
and, if possible, step to window or mt
D the open air, if only for moment. TIVE
g desks or tables in room are valuable TO-
| a student; one to stand at, the other u
S sit at.