Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1920 — EYE NEEDS REGULAR BATHS [ARTICLE]

EYE NEEDS REGULAR BATHS

One on Rising and the Other on Retiring Is Recommended to Secure Good Results For the daily care of the eyes there should be two baths. The body must have its bath. The face must have its cleansing. Why not the eye? Especially as the eye, with its thick lid and the fringe of eyelashes is a dust trap, and the slightest speck of dust allowed to remain beneath the lid may cause irritation of the lid and inflammatiop of the eye. For the eye’s daily bath I offer you the choice of several lotions. My favorite is: Ten ounces of purest rosewater. Apply with an eye cup, turning the eye cup upside down so that the half-open eye is completely washed by the contents of the cup. Hold it thus for 30 seconds, or, if not uncomfortable, for a full minute. Throw away this rosewater. Rinse the glass and give the eye a second bath. If the eyes are unduly Irritated the bath can be repeated several times. Ordinarily a bath in the morning on rising and another at night on retiring are enough. Some of my friends who have beautiful eyes prefer elderflower water to rosewater. It is equally good and should be applied in the same way. Another excellent eye bath is oneflalf an ounce of witch hazel; onehalf an ounce of, distilled water. Shake well in bottle and apply vrith-an-eye One other hath I must tell you about that is most excellent .for strengthening the eyes: Six drop* of boracic acid, one wine glass of distilled water. A in borax water is highly beneficial and has the advantage of being always convenient. Even while traveling one may always carry a box of borax. Moreover it is safe, because borax will only form a 4 per cent solution. that Is. only 4 per cent of- it will be Absorbed by water. A borax bath Is very strengthening. If the eyes be delicate or the person so prejudiced against experiments that she Is not willing to introduce this substance directly- into the eyes, a silk handkerchief or a soft Cloth dipped into borax water and pressed upon the eyelids is both efficacious and soothing. The old-fashioned remedy of cold" tea Jeaves pressed upon the lids has value, not from the tea leaves intrinsically, but from the cool, moist contact. Cloths dipped in water are quite as good.—New Ywk American.