Show I The Age of Eye Glasses I Chicago InterOcean We commonly I call the period we live in the age of steam or the age of electricity but it would perhaps be more accurate to can it the age of spectacles Look where we will in the schools the churches the shops the courts the marts of business or the resorts of pleasure we find a large proportion of the people using spectacles in some form or another In the United States at least 30 per cent of the school children chil-dren are myopic or near sighted and this is only one of the defects from which sight suffers As people grow up and grow older the vision is affected in other ways so that it is not unreasonable unrea-sonable to say that the vast majority of the people about us wear or ought to wear spectacles In the June Review of Reviews Dr Allport of Minnesota discusses the subject sub-ject of the defective sight of the American Amer-ican children He shows that the human hu-man eyesight degenerating and that this degeneracy has become hereditary The cause of the degeneration is the excessive strain upon the eye produced by intellectual pursuits In other words the intellectual progress and the ocular ocu-lar degeneration of the human race are inseparable companions I |