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Show EYES TOO MUCH NEGLECTED Residents of Cities, in the Aggregate, Are the Chief Offenders, for Various Reasons. The farmer at work in his fields all day long has much better eyesight than the city resident. Farmers, as a rule, have no need of artificial aid to the eyes until "old age comes upon them. On the farm the eyes receive more rest than in the city, because they Work at more natural angles. The farmer's work is not right up under his nose. In cases of most city people peo-ple their work is over books or machines, ma-chines, and they have a habit of stooping stoop-ing over it. This affects the eyes so that glasses are necessary for relief. Nine-tenths of the people who are suffering from headaches and who wonder what the trouble is can blame them on the treatment treat-ment they give their eyes. Not enough city people wear glasses. Perhaps one in fifty wears glasses where the average av-erage should be about one in every ten. Children are affected in this way. Most children lean over their desks and have their eyes close to tlfeir books. Teachers should prevent them from doing this. Where-children are forced to wear glasses it is not necessary neces-sary that they should have to wear them all the time. When the children are at play they ought, in most cases, to be allowed to go without their glasses. |