Show homemakers PAGE marie al M ogden now that school has started again it may be interesting to mothers to read the following message from the better vision institute extensive studies have shown that two important factors are involved in defective vision the physical and the mental A child who cannot see well cannot read and carry on his tasks easily at school correcting such defects naturally facilitates education of children however the eyes have an important effect upon the nervous system and the mental states of the child headaches and nervous irritability are caused by defective eyes frequently undesirable social habits including juvenile delinquency can be traced to uncorrected visual defects poor eyes definitely tend to make difficult children out of some youngsters several authorities go so far as to say that failure to correct visual defects in children is an important factor in truancy one calls attention to the fact that a substantial part ax f the of reform schools have defective vision he points out that a child who cannot see well finds it difficult to adjust himself with others and frequently becomes a rebellious child 1 eyesight surveys have indicated that about 20 out of every school children in the united states have visual defects many of which are uncorrected thus it would appear that the visual welfare cf children is one of the outstanding problems of american education today |