Show A CUP OF COFFEE WE cup clip the following from an article in the north american ke be view confirmed slaves to the arro I 1 matic berry will not perhaps be practically influenced by the teachings of the experience here hefe related but young people may be deterred thereby from contracting a habit which is the more dangerous because its ite deleterious effects are not immediately apparent q am satisfied that defective vision and blindness will pretty soon be a prominent characteristic among the american people the same as rotten teeth have been during the last years I 1 make mae this assertion without having seen any statistics whatever 0 on the subject of blindness I 1 f found out long ago that a cup of coffee lea vee a night shadow on the brain which continues longer than an eclipse of the sun I 1 had long noticed that the eyes of old cotie drinkers had a dry and shriveled appearance having discovered some years ago that my ow n eyesight was surely weakening I 1 then ceased to drink coffee as freely as I 1 had used it and became a moderate and more observant patron of the fragrant narcotic but I 1 have learned that moderate coffee drinking is a hard thing to manage being pretty sure to develop into the regular habit again with insidious ease especially at those times when the physical system feels to be in need of some elixir besides it Is quite distressing for or a person to be fighting oft off a powerful habit at each meal I 1 now reel feel free from the coffee drinking vice and will have no more trouble with it unless I 1 shall again fall a victim to some church supper or to the magnetic blandishments blandish ments of some buoyant hostess having long worked at a trade which requires almost as exact a use of the eye as the occupation of a jeweler I 1 made the discovery that a single cup of coffee would have a perceptible effect on my eyes this fact wa was the more apparent because my eyesight was originally very good in fact about the best after having used coffee with indifferent frequency and copiousness for many years my sight became abnormally weak and I 1 began to feel a horror of darkness wishing that the sun would never set and desiring I 1 instinctively n to go to some place where the nights would be short the entire year but now I 1 have quite little of this feeling left my eyes have gained to a curious extent their former range and I 1 again bagain enjoy the long panor panoramic aniio views of nature which are afforded from the baby mountains that skirt C council bunell bluffs on the east like an ment I 1 can take these long telescopic sweeps of vision again without blinking or feeling the weakened relaxation which alai alarmed maed me a week ago 1 I have no doubt but what this weakness of the eyes which results from coffee drinking is due to the syn sympathy apathy which the optic nerve has for tine the nasal cavity the latter being continuous with the membrane of the mouth the nasal cavity with its first pair of brain norves nerves is naturally a 9 principal place to be affected by any drinking habit for instance to partake of a dish of soup will sometimes cause a persons person Is breathing to become thick and decidedly labored all of the sensory nerves are much affected by coffee drinking those gentle and highly refined threads of sympathetic force which enter largely into the sense of smell taste sight and a hearing the entire sympathetic system ut is likewise involved immediately in the coffee drinking habit the brain again is intensely affected thereby because the principal nerves of the brain branch off from the nasal cavity |