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Show IClH trlc Llclita and KyealjrliL. Dr. John A. Tayne, oculist snys: "Most persons who use the incandescent incandes-cent electric light like a new lamp because be-cause the light is whiter and mere brilliant bril-liant than after the lamp has been in use for two or three weeks. This is wrong. It is the dazzling white light that harms the eye. An old lamp is the best, for in these the light has become changed to a pale yellow, which is the ideal color. Just lis in noonday brightness bright-ness human Bight is not so clear and far-reaching as at the yellow sunset, so a new incandescent burner is not so good for the eye as an old one. An old burner so adjusted and shaded that the light from it does not shine in the face, is the ideal artificial light An argand gas-burner oonies next The use of the are light should bo confined to street lamps. Some storekeepers still use them, but they are terribly hurtful to the eye. This is because the intensity of the light is constantly changing, and this jumping of the blaze is much worse for the eye than the flicker of the gaslight I have had occasion to treat a great many pe jple for inflammation of the retina caused by the light of arc lamps." St. Louis Globe-Democrat |
