CARE OF THE EYES.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 425, 4 December 1889, Page 8

CARE OF THE EYE S.

Never bleep opposite ;> win-low which \\ill thiow a flood o? s(i nn^ light on your oyes when you wake in the morning. When bathing the face do not open the "yes under water, as this is apt to be inimious to the epithelial coveiing of the eye. In all institutions, particularly for child yen, where the eyes are repuiied to do close *,v~>ik, the propoi tion of the square suiface 1! the window to the equate surface of the floor should never I\»U below one to four. The phort-si&hted eye is essentially a diseased eye. and should be treated as sue l , it affects by pieference those who use Hietr eyes constantly for fine or ncut work, . ikl is almost unknown amorg the uncivilised nations. When children work by light wh'ch falls n\ their faces they are apt to bend the body f oi ward so as to shade the oyes by the head or else twist it lo.md «o th.it the light shall iall on the page. Both of these portions .u-e pernicious. There is j>i eat danger of 'l'O client becoming iuhov; ;>nd eon■!acted md of thctpine becoming curved.