Show ECLIPSE OF 01 THE As the total eclipse of the sun sull will occur june J ulle 8 lie am best way ot of viewing it by the ordinary layman is being discussed one ined medical leal jol journal arnal says the most important thing to do for eclipse blinding Is to prevent li IL by warning the community of the danger aud and ot of tile the means ot of preventing it it can call be prove prevented only by looking at the sun through something that will greatly reduce rb its luminosity and not through an ordinary dark glasses in one series ot of over cases 14 per cent of 0 the patents patients had looked at the sun through some kind ot of dark glasses these should not be trusted the most effective safeguard is the use ot of the old fashioned smoked glass it this is I 1 well anell covered with soot and does not get scratched off in place one can view the sun through it but a still better more cleanly and safer thing to hold be fore ahe lie eye is a bit of 0 photographic film that has been over exposed and then developed the dense part ot of a photographic negative representing the sky may serve P but ut whatever is as to be used should lie bei can calt fully tested before hand it is narrated that when the eclipse of the sun still occurred in northern rn europe in 1912 there were cases of eclipse blinding in fil germany alone while cases were reported from switzerland to norway and from spain to russia in most of these instances the effects lasted only a few weeks but in not a few cases impairment of vision was permanent the retina of the eye being the part affected |