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Show THOUSANDS Poring Over Books in N. Y. Schools Glasses 20 Sizes Wrong-New Wrong-New Yoik. Dec JS There aie 7S 000 bad pairs of eves pot ing over tho school books in this citv, according accord-ing to the lopoit of a specialist to the boaid of education made public toda He estimated that elghtv per cent of these cases of defective vision vis-ion weie absolutel inexcusable In some of lhe cases which ho personal ly Investigated lie slid he found chil-dieu chil-dieu wcaiing glasses which woro i went sles wiong, as the result of which theii vision w.is onl about iwenl per cent olficlenc He recommended recom-mended that the icsponsibilitv of c .imiuing all chlldien for mental moral mor-al and phvslclal defects bo vested solelv In The department of educntion Instead of being divided as at pies-ent pies-ent with its depailmenl or health |