Show CHILDREN WHO WEAR GLASSES CLASSES alarming Inc increase rense of Eye troubles among amone the youth americans are fast growing used to the sight eight of school children whose spectacled eyes are in contrast to their youthful faces statistics show that in the united states at least 30 per cent of the school children are near sighted and this Is only one of the many defects from which the eye suffers in the june of reviews dr allport of minnesota who discusses this important theme the defective eyesight of american children gives for the prime cause of the degeneracy of human eyesight the excessive strain upon the eyes produced by intellectual pursuits that intellectual progress and ocular demonstration are inseparable and that savages do not suffer from defective sight is proven by the fart fact that among indian children only 2 per cent are affected by myopia and among negroes only 2 per cent of 2000 mexican children examined only eight were nearsighted near sighted sixty far sight ed and ten astigmatic in the united states 30 per der cent of the school children have defective eyes while in germany where all sorts of intellectual pursuits abound and the typography of books Is odthe of the most execrable description 60 per cent of the children are myopic of course the subject Is of the greatest importance and remedial measures should be ta taken by both parents a and teachers the latter should be trained to detect the first signs of defective eyesight and work should be arranged to best suit the eyes of the pupils but many parents do not watch young children at their reading and allow allow them to read by waving light dim gaslight or to jo strain the eyes by too much reading at night let t th the small boys and girls do their stu studying U I 1 yin ty by daylight even if they have to arise an hour earlier to do so and give them games that do not require any straining odthe of the eyes for the evenings entertainment often children hll dren convalescent an and d weak are allowed to read hours at a stretch and permanently weaken their eyesight |