How To Preserve The Eyesight

The editor of the Huntsville Demoorat, who has passed his thi-ee-score j-ears without tbe use of eye-glasses and sar still read with his natural eyes iine print, wishes to give othpr people nearing the seve and yellow leaf the benefit of his ocular experience. Thereforo he tells them that in 18G5 he found his eyesight failing, indieated by dark specks tíitting over the page and a hazy appearancc of the letters when he v:is readiug. Rememberiug to have heard his ruother say that Ex-President John Quincy Adams (who lived to about 80 years) had preserved his eyebight and read without glasses by pressing the outer anil inDer corners of his eyes together, the? editor tried the experiment. After retiring to bed at night he has ever siuce the fall of 1869, before going to sleep, pressed gently together the inner and outer corner of each eye between the thumb and foretinger and the corners of the other between üie tliird and fourth lingers. strivingto give equal pressure to bolh eyes. The philosophy of the experiment is explained in tliis way : As people pass the middle age there is said to bc a tendeney of the balls of the eye to lose their convexity - in common parlance, toilatten. ïhe habitual pressu'-e of the outer and inner corners of the eyes restores confexity, and thereby the original power of seeing. Near-sighted persons are exceptions to this rule. Their near-sightedness (as we understand) is caused by too great eonoxity of the eye. Ofteatimes, as they ad vanee in years their eyes ilatten; that is lose their original convexity, and becomo more nearly like the good eyes of young people, and they can sec better without glasses and lay theni aside.