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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 29, 3 February 1871, Page 2

'.' .-■ . y:. xxT-xxr i . . . . . —~t •. The Medical Press says : — There is something in the belief that tight boots produce weak eyes. Since the newfashioned boots worn by ladies have come into use, we have* been consulted for a weakness of yision, which we at first fqund difiiculty in accounting for, being unable to detect any condition of the eye to cause this disordered vision, or to trace any constitutional disturbance likely to provVke it. A mother, wise in her own generati^n?-^ asked if the tight boots worn by her daughters might not produce the distressing symptoms com.plain.cd of. To this we assented, and upon the tight boots being dispensed with, discovered that the cause of the mischief must have been removed, - for the . injurious effect upon the eyes ; ceased. However disposed ladies may be to wear the high-heeled boots of the period, which throw the foot forward, and, tend to compress it in a narrow space ; and however anxious they may be to imitate Lady Hester Stan- . hope, whose foot betrayed a Royal ,race, for water flowed beneath, the instep ; this we tell them, that the localised pain suffered from compression of, the, foot,. and the consequent production of corns and bunions and swollen toes, are nothing to be compare! to other symptoms which pressure provokes, and which may be recognised in the unsteady look about the eyes, the perpetual winking of thp lids, and the contracted ybrow, so indicative of approaching weakness: gf sight ; and we npw* teach thera. t^tjrat th^"'exjpiepse of a, neat'fodt, ilief must' iiot" injure ,'thejrQ ey£-f Bi^y7Jy h i.j'7y ./^''-''y/JiJ! - \ • A"W6]^AN?s righ fes newspaper has a department of "Beople Who Are : Worth Knowing,'?" Jt is Written by a • WQqaaft •; who' is -not. '■'':■. - ij/\Ji x Ji7x ' . 'x y