Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1920 — How Is Your Hearing? [ARTICLE]

How Is Your Hearing?

We are not made so conscious in our ordinary occupations 'of ear deficiency as we are of eye deficiency. Unless you are so deaf as to be a marked man, you can hear the honk of an automobile or the' clang of a street car bell in time to get out of the way; and unless you are so deaf as to be a marked man you can hear the talk of your companions and distinguish they say. As a matter of fact, in* our ordinary, civilized life, the man with normal ears has about three times as much , keenness of hearing as he is called rfbon to nse; whereas, even the man with normal eyes has no such excess of sight keenness. In other words, you’ can get along with less hearing than you actually possess. Therefore, you are not aware of the fact that you may be below normal so far as hearlhg Is concerned. —American Magazine.