Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1884 — Take Care of Your Eyes. [ARTICLE]

Take Care of Your Eyes.

Sight is too priceless a gift to be abused with impunity, yet how frequently do we see adults as well as •children straining their eyes over books ■or work in file dim twilight. Both eyes should always be exposed to am equal degree of light, whose rays should pass over the shoulder on to the book or work engaging the attention. • 1 . ■ -rr “ 1 • ■■ - The Tarboro Southerner says that a pea-vine in that section, grown from an ordinary black pea, covers over two hundred square fast of ground. Onehalf the peas had been gathered, which numbered about 5,700 and measured a littlo more than three pints. This gives an increase frMh a single pea, provided the remainum portions of the vinq'Were equally jfipttOctive, Of more than ten thousandfold; Whether the large yield was due to the prolificacy of the pea as a variety, or to the fertility of tne soil is not stated, but it is demonstrated that we should not be content with the average yield in the face of such results. ■ ■ -i .... Studies first beard at a mother’s knee are never forgotten. It is the same with some other things received at a mother’s knee, which will readily oocur to our readers.