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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21533, 24 July 1935, Page 4

An oculist declares that the motorist's eye 3 are the hardest-worked part of his constitution. Constant variations in.focus, he says, put a big strain on the driver's eyes, One moment they are focused upon a far object, and the next a near one commands attention, these changes having to be made much more rapidly than in normal conditions. On a long run a good plain, he says, is to stop and rest the eyes by looking fixedly, but without strain, at some stationary object In that way they may be rested more effectively than by shutting them lor a while, because the eyes when closed will continue performing to a certain degree the muscular actions necessary in focusing. Concentrated attention on a single stationary object has the effect of keeping the focusing more or less stationary, and' greater benefit results, /