Show nearsightedness near bj sightedness is increasing 0 in our country to an efte extent nt it was iva comparatively rare a 1 I century ngo ago but blit now it ts 1 a I lai largo Y e proportion 1 artio 1 of the children cb ildren III in our pub 1 lc c schools sell it iso is one of tho the evils Cre created ateLl by civil iya tion and is altri almost casal unknown in ill life an ail official officio al inquiry in germany indicates that this evil is more inore common there diere than in ill the united states and did it ib u is the dire lirett A result ol of baj ad habits of study the abo bantle lie file flat loil depolt to the government that in ill Chil diell of five aars N earo the vision visit oil wn generally perfect during the imite the detect defect increase 4 steadily tedi lp in fit the lower schools front from fifteen tu to twenty tv cent of I 1 ahe he scho liis Is uc tie affected in III the glier school proportion the plo portiOn real iles forty to bilty ailt ler rent it is is far ir in m the me schools liing 1 fully seventy seven toi per cent of theolog th leal iid over ninety lier mit cent of medical DI flie it crie c the tro trouble tible to tile the prior poor print ot of oral textbooks text books hooks mid and to the ge delit gemeril I 11 abit of nf li book too toca near th ill eyes it inight P b bc e wil to make in ake i si niler calil I 1 nisi fion in awit Loii coli lit id I 1 alel that public lle in ii UrOil romeil lell to provide if I 1 lai isible i 1 cure for this growing evil it ii i I 1 grave rave ini iiii if creates a bleir sighted liali call youths |