Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 308, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1912 — TAKE TIME TO REST EYES Too Close Application to Very Fine Sewing Is Something Always to Be Avoided. [ARTICLE]

TAKE TIME TO REST EYES

Too Close Application to Very Fine Sewing Is Something Always to Be Avoided.

If there is much sewing to do—and at this season of the year there is generally piles of it —the seamstress, dressmaker or mother of a large family, as the case may be, should take care thah her eyes are not strained or allowed to become overtired by close application to the stitching of seams, working of buttonholes and the thousand other tasks that are necessary when dressmaking is being done. For that reason, always be careful, when working on dark materials, to wear a light-colored apron and spread a white cloth on the work table. If you are working by an artificial light, a white cloth on the table will be found to increase the light to an appreciable extent; thus the strain on the eyes will not be so great On the other hand, If you are working on white or very light-colored materials, a dark cloth thrown over the lap will reduce the strain on the eye*. If needles having elongated eyes are used, they will be easier to thread than those with round eyes. When the eyes become very tired, you will find relief in looking ont of the window at a distant view, or at a picture at a distant view, or ashrdhrdlhrluu of a landscape that has distance in it —down a long road shaded with overhanging trees or over the bills to distant mountains. Leaning the head back against the chair and covering the eyes with a cold compress will often relieve eyestrain and eye headache, which is the

result of sewing on fine materials or intricate stitchery in fine lace making | where the crochet hook is used. Take care of your eyes; they areyour best friends, for what would you do if you should lose your sight?”