CARE OF THE EYES

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 135, 9 June 1928, Page 14

CARE OF THE EYES

—. <». A SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN It is doubtful it' the average person with normal sight makes as good use of it as children with defective sight do after proper training (says a writer in an exchange). How many keen-sight-ed people trouble to: Sit up at their word? Hold their work at a suitable distance from (he eyes? Give their eyes sufficient rest? Desist from close work when Ihe light-is bad" Yet these are ordinary'everyday precautions one finds at the L.C.C. fciightSaving Schools, where children who suffer from myopia and other defects of the vision learn not only to preserve the sight they have, but to make the best use of it. Defective sight does not mean lack of intelligence, but it does frequently mean that a child is backward if it has to compete with normal children, .in an ordinary school. The trouble is a child seldom recognises for itself what is wrong, but is quick to sense its inferiority, and loses heart. The natural tendency of the shortsighted child is to. work on a minute scale, to write a small crumped hand, and to bring its face close to the work. To counteract this, scholars are taught to write words an inch high, to ..do everything at an arm's distance away, and to make their strokes thick and firm. This means that chalk must bo used —black on a white ground, or vice versa. Pen, pencils and ink are taboo, and even the globe of the world is in black and white. The school is a bookless one, and uo newspapers enter its portals, for ordinary type makes too much demand on the eyes, but the

Theso "Lido" pyjamas have the pleated trouser effect in black satin ./ith a top of gold lame, swathed at the waist and knotted loosely with tasselled ends. The coat (also of gold lame) has wide flowing sleeves. Note the modern mode of hairdressing, the hair being drawn to the nape of the neck. These pyjamas were recently exhibited at the famous Kit-Cat Restaurant, in London.

bigger pictures arc cut from the daily I'ress and topical events discussed. On a foggy day, or when the light is bad, even reading or writing letters inches high is prohibited—a fact which might well be recommended to the attention of those who sit in dark corners and strain their eyes over small typo. Knitting takes the place of needlework in the needlework class. On a wet d;iy the shoe basket is brought forward, and every child tiikes off its damp shoes, for bodily health means a greater chance of (ho eyesight improving. As a result of the training some of the children leave the school with good average sight, whilst others are able to use what they have to the best advantage.