READING IN BED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19217, 5 January 1926, Page 5

READING IN BED.

The traditional danger of going to sleep with the candle alight is not the chief or only harmful factor of the "reading-in-bed" habit. Too often the reader lies on the side so that the eyes and book are slantwise to each other. To attempt to read in this position is extremely harmful to the sight even in the best of lights, and should be avoided at all costs, states a writer in an exchange. If you must read in bed, see that the light is good, and that the print of the book and your eyes are parallel and not too clo3e together—another probable danger. To achieve this with the most comfort you must lie on your back with tho light from behind. Remember that any straining of the eyes tends to produce those fine wrinkles of the skin round the eyes, probably as potent a reason as any—for women especially—for being carerju. To try to read by the light of only one candle is too hard work for any pair of eyes; have two or more. Better still, usjj a lamp or a soft electric light which would not flicker. In any case, tho print you read should be dear. . If your object in reading _is mainly sleep-wooing, choose an unexciting * and then, maybe, you will not read i ■ for tod long. ft