TIRING THE EYES IN RAILWAY JOURNEYS.
Few persons, when travelling- by train, allow their eyes to rest. If they do not read they watch the scenery. When rea ding you try lo hold the book or paper steady, but the types jiggle irregularly back and iorth as the result of the motion oi tne car and the shakiness of your -hand. Your eyes also do a deal of dancing, not only in pursuit of the bobbing letters, but in addition because you also are shaken about more or less b}r the motion of the train. Imagine the effect on the muscles of the eye. First, the eye itself has an unsteady rest; second, it is trying to fasten itself on that which is more unsteady still. Reading is not the only ill. Fix your eye on things close —on rowers, fenceposts, trees—and the effect is as bad us would be brought on by reading. A headache is the first warning, but that becomes common alter a while, and is not heeded any more than the headache that follows unwise eating. There is closer connection between the stomach and the eyes on one side and a headache on the other than most people imagine.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 16, 19 January 1901, Page 2 (Supplement)
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203TIRING THE EYES IN RAILWAY JOURNEYS. Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 16, 19 January 1901, Page 2 (Supplement)
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