Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1919 — New Disease. [ARTICLE]

New Disease.

“Eye-work is perhaps the biggest part of submarine hunting,” writes William G. Shepherd in Everybody’s Magazine, “and it has its evils and penalties. Woe to the man on a destroyer who is gifted with that strange, unexplainable talent of being able to see by night. There be such. His is almost 24-hour-a-day task. And he finally gets the periscope eye* and is sent ashore to get well, If he can. His eyes weep tears of pus by day*and, after sleep, his lids are glued together with granulation. It is a new disease of this mad century. “*Yon keep looking through- those high-powered binoculars like an old lady reading through her spectacles,’ one of the boys explained, to me, ‘until finally they seem to be pulling ydur eyes out of their sockets.’" ' .