Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1901 — American Sight Is Bad. [ARTICLE]

American Sight Is Bad.

“There are more people with defective eyesight In America than In Great Britain or Ireland,” says a naturalized New-Yorker who served In tho British army when he was a young man, and who Is now an optician. “In the British army you will find a dozen men with exceptionally good eyesight for one you will find In the American army. I account for the standard of eyesight being better In the old country than In America,’’ flays the same expert, “principally because of the gray skies there. There are so few sunny days in Great Britain and Ireland that tbe eyes are aot subjected to the same strain as In America, where there la a far greater proportion of sunny days.”