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Show ''I think the eye power of the present generation of civilized men must have deteriorated a good deal, ' ' said an oculist ocu-list to me the other day. "I am called upon to examine so many young persons nowadays whose eyes show no symptoms symp-toms of disease or strabismus, but are Bimply unable to do the ordinary amount of work required of schoolboys, schoolgirls, school-girls, college students or moderate readers read-ers without showing symptoms of overwork. over-work. "This weakness seems to be constitutional, constitu-tional, and glasses are required which lessen the muscular strain on tho eyes only. In spite of the invention of the typewriter, which has relieved the eye of so much work, the state of things is almost equally as prevalent in business circles as among students. " New York Herald. |