The Chemawa American, March 13, 1929, Page 4, Image 4

The CHEMAW A AMERICAN
Page 4
INTAKESTJNG N OTES
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the waters along the Spanish main, the West Indies
and this C.arplings.
Many nations claim the invention of playing cards,
but it is now believed they originated in China. The
Chinese dictionary claims that they were invented in
the reign of Ehiperor Spun-hp, 1.1,20
p.
CARE FOR T O U R E Y E S
A blind person has a hard time all the tirpe.
Myopia, Hyperopia and Astigmatism can be remedied
by properly fitted eyeglasses.
The danger signals of eye disturbance are frowning,
watery eyes, fatigue after continued use of eyes, blurred
vision, soreness or redness of eyelids, pnflfnssspfeye­
lids or under eyes, drooping of lid, mild or severe
headaches and aching pf eyef .
In every case of failing eyesight, inflammation of,
or injury to the eyes, if pain o r discomfort continues,
an expert in eye diseases should be consulted early and
treatm ent conscientiously followed.
The
eternal darkness is try in g to the bravest souls. Often
N O N P A R E IL O PEN SE SSIO N
loss pf sight can be prevented with ordinary care and
The “ open session’’ of the Nonpareil Literary Soci­
that care should be exercised by the young as well as ety was dated for l??t prfday evening and the girls
the old. The following article on the eyes just came gave a good account of themselves, from versions that
to our desk front thepffice of the State Board of Health, have reached us. We know of no better way to
and it will pay any one to give it a careful reading:
report the affair than by reproducing the program,
The eyes aré the agents of one of the most im port­ and adding that the Nonpareils and their advisor,
ant ipnctiona of the hunian body. The eyes are mo?f Miss W hite, have every reason to feel satisfied with
delicate and sensitive, and their usefulness is easily their efforts of Friday evening. The program follows:
impaired- It i§ estimated that over 50 percent of im­ Welcome Address - ’ - - a - « Gle© Plasteur
paired eyesight and the attendant discomfort, disease Opening S o n g .................................
Society
and dependency can be prevented.
Reporter’s N o t e s ............................ N . L. S. Reporter
The best artificial lighting system is that nearest to Song Moonlight on the Danube - - - - - Octette
ordinary daylight- T he light -sjhonuL come over ’fflfi Talkies - - - - - - - - -
- Group of Girls
left shoulder for right-handed people, and over the Duet - - - - - r - - - - K attie and Serine
rig h t shoulder for left-handed people, in order that Literary Review - - - - - - - - Cleo Plasteur
a shadow be not cast.
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Grace Peterson
B&nlty vision is( sometimes due to eye disease, bnt is
DEBATE
also often due to defects of the eyes which prevent the
Resolved: T hat the Volstead Act is Successful
rays of light from being properly focused in the eye.
Affirmative
Negative
Properly fitted eyeglasses, properly worn, will remedy S.usje G r o u n d s - - - - - - - -
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the defect. Properly fitted eyeglasses not only enable
Vina Smith - - - - - - - -
Hazel Wiel
a person with defective vision to see more clearly, but Music - - - - - - - - - By the Hong Kongs
they may improve, fhe general physical condition,. Recessional - - - - - - - -
- Hong Eongs
T he proper fitting of eyeglasses demands expert know­
CH A M BER M USIC
ledge and great care. Eyeglásseá, the lenses of which
After
missing
a
couple of weeks owing to illness in
are not adapted to the eye, or frames that do not hold
the
party,
the
string
quartet resumed their regular
glasses in correct position, may do great harm. In the
normal eye, by special sense of sight, the images of “ qhamber music” concert series last Monday evening.
grade-constituted the audience,
objects are properly focused and a clear picture thus Members pf our
together
with;
Supt.
and
Mrs, LipPsi Mr. Mack Lipps
formed. Myopia, or nearsightedness, is induced by a
condition where the distance from the front to theback of Lapwai, Idaho, Mrs. A. G. Wilson and son Verne,
of the eye ball is too long. This Gauses distant objects Mrs. Francisco, and probably-others whose names we
to, be blurred, and discomfort, headaches and eyestrajn did not learn. N ext Monday evening the program,
nr^ experienced. Hyperopia, or farsightedness, is in­ will be given for our seventh grade pupils and then
duced by a. condition where the distance froga the front appther, seriesw ill b e . started, beginning, with our
to the back of the eyeball is too short. T his causes seniors. A Schubert quartet has been th e m a in offer­
close objects to appear blurred, which in turn brings ing' of- the present- series,; it- is nOV yet determined
whether Mozart of Haydn will be the big name on the
about eyestrain.
' kstigm atisni is, induced b y a condition where the fays next program.
St; Patrick was a man beloved
of light falling upon different parts of the eye are pot
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focused at the same point, with the result that objects/
To prove him self a friend indeed,
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are indistinct and eyesight is impaired.