"Are the internal reeti of your daughter's eyes of exactly similar strength ? " asked a Boston school-marm of a pupil's mother, "I mean," she continued, as she saw a look of vague wonder overspreading the face of the woman who had never heard of Concord, "are both her eyes equally hyperopie, or has she used ciliary muscle too much p " The woman rose fiercely. "Hannah Jane squints, is that what you're driving at," she said indignantly; "but ibe's got sense enough to say what she means, and I won't leave her here to be made a fool of;" and she flounced out with her off« spring, while the teacher explained to the school that squint means a " convexity of the lens of the "optic organs." * Pat's Illustration.^--" le pays no more attention lo me," said Patrick to bis children, " than if I was a dum biate talking tojez." *" .
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4658, 8 December 1883, Page 1
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