DO NOT FACE A LIGHT.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2871, 29 April 1878, Page 2

DO NOT FACE A LIGHT.

(Statistics kept by oceulists employed in infirmaries for ere diseases have shown that the habit of some persons in facing a window from which the light falls ! directly in the eyes is well as on the work, injures their ejes in the end. The best way in to work with a side light, or, if the work needs strong ill*, mination, so that it is necessary to bar* the working table before the window, the lower portion of the latter should be covered with a screen, so as to hare a top light alone, which does not shine in the ejes when the head is slightly bent orer and downwards towards the work. In the schools in Germany this matter has been already attended to, and the rule adopted to bare all the seats.and table* so arranged that the pnpils nerer ftoe the windows, but only hare the side lights from the left; and as light simultaneously thrown from two sides girei an inference of shadows, it has been strictly forbidden to build schoolrooms with windows on both sides, such illumination baring also prored injurious to the eyes of the pupils. We nay add to this the adriee not to place the lamp in front of you when at work in the erening, but a little on the side; and Derer to neglect the use of a shade, so as to prerent the strong light shining in the eyes. This is especially to be considered at the present time, when kerosene lamps, with their intensely luminous flames, become more and more common.