Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1880 — Preservation of the Eye-Sight. [ARTICLE]

Preservation of the Eye-Sight.

maker m h^toL* I work health. Thia ter*od Good aad Bad." Tie ■tan who wouldpwßerTß the <hH integrity of Us ftmetaona to a ripe eld age most ri/ nowO&w AamtytHZW) SMoMdTSß^ssmmiiLnilwsM^ ally than » now always eartemary. A time cornea to twery one when the plm> ieal powen begin to deeqr, mid then, naftss the brain ha* been kept active and reeipient died of goat, o t heart disease, or of kidney ftisranc, or of the failure of the particular organ which was

the Amt to exhibit symptom* of the approachiag end. In reality he has died of •tapidity. artificially produced by neglect of thetnimta wtß> whichhe That which i* true of the oepafiad as a whole, ie true aho of its parts; aad the eyea, among others, am boat treated by an arvwwent oi systcmatie nee which preaervee the tone of their mnadee and the regularity of their blood euppfy. The i salsa sm of eight, moreorer, ie in a great degree deoendeat upon ns mental attention habit* ually paid torisaal impmeeiana; and I hare often observed this acatenem ta bo below the natural average in agricoltnral laborers who, if able in ooe sense to read, were not in the habit of reading, and who were not accustomed to look at small otyecta. I have even had reason to think that the wives of such men wen indebted to thfil household needle work hr the maintenance of a higher standard of listen than that of their husbands; and I have no doubt that idkneos of the eyee, if I may use such an expression, is in every way hartful ta than, and that proper and varied employment Is eminently conducive to their jsboserration in beauty and efficiency.