Show destroying OUR EYES buffalo express people have done a lot of talking about the number of little children who are to be seen these days wearing glasses these small ones look so odd with their big lenses that it would be to laugh if the matter were not really of so serious a nature there has been a lot of speculating as to the cause of this detective eyes among the children and there has been some sound investigation vesti gation professor walter D scott tells in the popular science monthly what ho has found through bis investigations into the causes of detective eyesight among the young put briefly it is that our children are reading too much too young he declare that the eyes of our children are being destroyed and hat the destruction ia taking place at the age of 7 and 9 years professor scott regards that fact as of such a serious character that he thinks it ought to cause parents to bestif themselves to lessen the evil in the days of early greece he points out the athenian boy was not taught to read until he waa at least 10 years old in germany the form of instruction tor the farst few years in school Is largely oral and children do not read as many books either at school or at home as do then again by modern school methods young children find themselves in the readers long before children ot an earlier generation dd by our modern system ot education we injure the eyes ot the children so that halt ot them have defective vision long before the athenian boy ot old learned his letters so says professor scott it all that the professor asserts is taken as established tact there re mains tha question ot what are we going to do about it aro we going to revolutionize our methods ot education those improved methods which have been won only afler a great and continued struggle are we going back to the old methods by which the children spent several years doing not much ot anything but fretting out thear little spirits are we going to tako tha boorff away from our children when the tendency of educators and publishers and writers Is to make books that will delight the children ot limited understanding or are we going to require that no child shall be sent to school until ho is 10 years old when so many pressed and worried to others find it necessary to get theira children into school just as soon as they can induce the authorities to take them in order that the mothers may be free to do the things which an existence requires them to do other problems which be enunciated enter into this matter it Is not so easy to change our habits it would indeed be easier to soe that every schoolhouse school bouse is so lighted that the pupils will be free from eyestrain eye strain caused by defective lighting if that were dono it might be found that wo had helped the situation more than a little |