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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15549, 5 March 1914, Page 12

NORMAL VISION \\W UNCOMMON. ;SW, FORTY PER CENT. 'OF EYES EYE-STRAIN OFTEN UNSUSPECTED. DEFECTIVE. , To see well is no proof that one is free Forty people in every hundred should from-eye-strain, and for peoule who are wear glasses. Why? Because modern in the region of 50 years of age, to make times are placing greater demands upon a bo ast , that they do not need glasses, our sight. We must pay the penalty for an ' d can read perfectly well without, is not the many advantages of our higher civil- at wise . why not use glasses, giv . isation. The type of our modern news- ing one greater com f cft ' an pleasure in papers is fine and compact, and with the near work and readingf and perfect, re . wonderful printing machines of to-day, lie{ from - eye-strain, of which there may be running off 24,000 in an hour, the won- no consciouanesS) but the effect of which der is that the ink has time to stick to may headache| insomnia, sickness, gidthe paper at all. We are not surprised dinesg> inflamed eyelids, etc to find some newspapers where the type is ■ Jhardly legible. Then our magazines, nrnTmir „ frp „ „„ while printed in good type, are on glossy OLD-TIME SPECTACLES, paper, which is harmful to the eyes. .We can understand the objection in past years to the use of glasses, for they were READING AND EYESIGHT. almost always heavy, cumbersome and I . , ~ , ~ . , ill-fittins, but now, when glasses can be A great deal more reading is done to- fiUed sQ that thev ate ]ightj neatj be . day, by all classes, than m the past. comi comfortay fitting, and give It is not for us to discuss the subject {ecfc reJic{ from e .strain, together mater that is read, but the fact remains „ J4 , deU hWli]]y dear si ht> n,. M is „ n .. . ... „ A , . ~ A , ~, with delightfully clear sight, there is no that with all thi6 reading, together with ? ,°,! i. . v ~ .. .... jr.. 8 , , reason why everyone should not enrich the peculiar conditions of the type read, ~ . ,- . iu i, ,■ - \, 4 . ... . ■ , , , Jl . ' their lives by the use of the lenses,that there is constant cause for eyestrain even they rsonally need . lt may . me an just to perfect eyes and for sight that is in .^ ocauimul US6 . o f. lasseSj or for dose any measure defective, there is positively workonly . i. may means glasses. *~„ con- * e * work only; it may means glasses for conno escap . stant use; but, whatover we advise after making a careful examination, may NATURAL CONDITIONS. depended upon as absolutely the best Then, the natural change that takes for the individual case under . considers place in all eyes, of all nationalities, Uonis inevitable is, the hardening process which makes focussing for near work MODERN GLASS-FITTING. difficult when we: get to forty years of ase ' tit * « jv vi j ' _. . , b . . _' J ~ ° We take a delight and every care in ■ or over. This change is first manifest by .*,/.:»: , » *i—* • », _. ./»..,. vi i, , ,' the fitting ofglasses, so that, in all rethe fact that a- book or work has to be v iX ■ _ a ,A. 1 ~,,., _ ~ ~ ~ ~ spects, the wearer may find them a real held farther off than the ordinary dis- , -mx. i • «<tr . . . -i m. . J pleasure,. When making our Kontance, to see clearly. . Then, of course, torik » - and ..Kryptok" lenses, we do so >! it .3 fine sewing or small type, it can, with the ronfiden V that we are supplying not be seen at all. ~ .'..,..•■. u 5 the very best that money can buy, and » 1, «• • „ charging very little mare than for the '< REASON FOR GLASSES. . old flat .glasses' in heavy frames,' that have naturally engendered such a prejudice in , Very few people have normal sight. We the minds of many against wearing glasses are not inclined to think it was ever any at all., • < better, and the fact that glasses are daily becoming more common '■ among ' young I ■ I people as well as old, is due to two - >-'-■ causes. First, that we have, discovered SAMUEL BARRY, special ways of helping the sight and relieving eye-strain, and of curing head- Optical Specialist, aches by the use of glasses. .• ■« , . Se«>nd, the demands of our. modern 29 Queen Street, Auckland. education and higher civilisation make us more liable to nerve-strain—and eye- • , , t. .'•■■• strain.is nerve-strain. \ '. '"' "> . . ,-..-. _• . '. '■' , Medical. - The Skeleton's Secret '■ y : There is a factory in your skeleton : . t ] -.—in the very marrow of your ,: bones.. It is there- that the red hone-marrow is daily and hourly at ; 4 work, making the red cells which \ live and work in your blood. These ■ M : cells carry oxygen to every part of « :t ? your body;; and without them you would immediately die of suffocation. ; 'Biijvthey die and need to be replaced 1 by 'millions daily. ! Blood from the Bone I Your power, to resist disease largely depends on the red i - cells in your blood. If you are pale and anaemic your i ; red cells are too few, or not red enough, and ; all your ( ■" •'*'; tissues suffer from lack of oxygen. You must make the . % blood-forming marrow of your bones supply, fresh recruits, e " richly laden with the priceless red material, to take the I • . - place of those' which fall in the never-ending rhythm of 0 • our lives. How can you "do this ? is • It is being done every hour by doctors all the world over it Jj is being done to-day in more than a thousand Hospitals and Sanatoria, and they are doing it by the help of Virol, the wonderful food which supplies. the actual substances (largely e red bone-marrow itself) with the aid of which living red cells 5 • are made. 7 • * ; The pallor, the wasting, the feeling three times a ; day, a teaspoonful i ■ of exhaustion—all are signs thai, -after meals, or., in warm milk. » the defensive forces "of the body Above all, give ViroL to anyone, * , . . ,- , rp,. • adult or child, whose pallor betrays o are being broken down. This is , ', ~. , r ~ , . ' y . the poverty of blood which is so it the time to take Virol. You dangerous a phenomenon of city y • should not wait until disease has ijf e . Virol can be obtained of all ie ' :e fastened on you. Take Virol Chemists and Stores. Ie :e 5 ' ~.'' ' ie Used in more than a ee ' '. ; Thousand Hospitals and Sanatoria J ' VIROL, LTD., 152/166 Old Street. London, E.C.

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