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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2285, 2 September 1908, Page 1

OPTICAL ANNOUNCEMENT. ■ E A GOLDEN' OPPORTUNITY TO OBTAIN THE EXPERT SERVICES OF AN EXPERT OPTICIAN. XTENSION OF T IME. MR. WATSON HEINE, G. 5.0.1., D.1.0.C., QUALIFIED OPTHALMIC OPTICIAN AND TEACHER OF OPTICAL SCIENCE.

I HAVE PLEASURE iu announcing to the Residents of Gisborne and District that Mr. HEINE has consented to remain here until SATURDAY EVENING This Week, and I also desire to sincerely thank all those who have so quickly and generously responded to niy former announcement, that Mr. HEINE will bo consulted at my Pharmacy. O PPORTUNITY IS H ERE.

As stated in a former announcement that Mr. HEINE is an exceptional man in the Optical Field, I knew wliat I was saving and fully realise the responsibility I was accepting in recommending those in need of Glasses to accept his services. I am myself an Optician in the true sense of the word, but candidly admit that Mr. HEINE has a superior knowledge. The Extension of his time in Gisborne is clearly an opportunity to obtain the Expert Services of an Expert Optician. SIGHT NEGLECT. TAKE EYE TROUBLES IN TIME. Sight neglect is tho worst kind of neglect. Defects of vision never euro themselves. Any defect of vision will steadily "row worse unless it is corrected. Rightly fitted glasses applied early will remedy the trouble. Eveiy day you neglect eye ..trouble makes it correspondingly' harder to overcome. Because of the limited power of tho inside eye muscles eye defects . .constantly get worse, and, like a stone rolling down hill, tliev get worse faster and faster. There are many thousands of spectacle-wearers who foolishly put off wearing glasses as long as they could—thought they were doiiig what was right, but who, after a few days of wearing their proper correction, and discovering the immense relief and comfort obtainable, admit their foolishness, and are sorry they did not have glasses long before. EYE-STRAIN, WATERY EYES. HEADACHES, NEURALGIA. Eye-strain itself is nob a disease—it is jtne result of a mechanical defect—a faulty shape of the eye-ball by which the focussing of images on to the retina (inside badk of. tho eye) is not perfect. Twotlittle muscles inside eye, called ciliary muscles, become overworked and over-strained, and this in its turn leads to headaches, often oxceedingly severe, neuralgia, watery eyes, aching eyes with a bulging forward feeling, nerve troubles, etc. Theso little muscles are constantly doing far more than their fair share of work, and this explains why so many people—women especially —are almost constantly suffering from torturing headaches. Sometimes the ache is across the forehead, sometimes through the temples, at other times tho back of the head is the painful part—but it .is there, the result of eye-strain, and can be cured by properly fitting glasses only. There is no other way to secure permanent relief. Drugs may relieve for a while, but only for a while. Use the eyes for reading, writing, sewing, music, or any other .forms of close work, and the eye-strain, with its accompanying headaches and nerve pains, returns. Properly-fitting glasses—glasses which accurately overcome the focussing defect, and which can only be ascertained by careful testing, the work of the qualified optician, give lasting and permanent relief. . Mr. HEINE’S eye-strain and headacho ; glasses give comfort to all who need and wear them.

MIS-MATED EYES. DON’T SELECT GLASSES HAPHAZARDLY. But few people have eyes that are alike. An examination of 000 of Mr. HEINE’S ' optical prescriptions revealed the astonishing fact that only a few out of each 100 wero for persons whose both eyes were alike in focussing power. One eye may be near-sighted, the other far-sighted. One may be normal, the other defective. Both eyes may have the same kind of defect, but one double the quantity of the other. How unwise it is to try to fit your own eyes from ready-made spectacles—the result is apt to bp that ope eyo is poorly fitted, and the other not fitted at all—and, of course, the trouble gets worse instead of better. Your eyes are too valuable for any haphazard work. There is only one pair of glasses to suit each person, and that pair can only bo prescribed after accurate, careful testing of each eye separately. SPECTACLE PRICES. Mr., HEINE’S charges are in no way excessive. They are reasonable, and alike to all. As a matter of fact, they, are much less than the prices charged by many opticians who do not know the subject of optics .half so woll as Mr. HEINE. The prices, while alike to all, depend upon the lenses required and the frame selected. If your eyes give you any troublo at any time in any way you should certainly have them examined. An opiwrtunity such as occurs with this visit of Mr. HEINE is only of rare occurrence. Do not allow it lo pass by. If your sight is valuable; if you cannot seo as well as formerly; if reading, writing, sewing, typewriting, studying, or any other form of close work tiro and strain your eyes —make them ache, ache, ache; if you cannot seo distant objects clearly, make an early appointment with Mr. HEINE, and . have, your eyes properly attended to without further delay. HAROLD KANE.