A DANGEROUS HABIT. "Boys and girls under eighteen should be strictly forbidden," says Dr. Hugo Feilchenfeld, of Berlin, "to read in bed. In the case of young persons whose eyes are not fully developed the practice is likely to induce myopia, or near-sighted-ness." While young people run the greatest risk, Dr. Feilchenfeld thinks that reading in bed is undesirable for persons of any age, and states that " in the case of aged, anxious, worried, and bedridden people, to whom it would seem cruelty to deny what might perhaps be their only luxury, for fear of inducing some slight error of refraction, care should be taken that the light is sufficiently brilliant the eyes being shaded from it, and that the patient lies on his back with head and shoulders raised."
China's national hymn ib so long that people take half a day to listen to it.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 2210, 29 August 1910, Page 2
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