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18 THE SEMI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE SECTION Save Your Eyes Simple Home Treatment Will Enable You to Throw Away Your Glasses. "How to Save the Eyes" is the title of a FREE BOOK At last the good news can be published. It is predicted that within a few years eyeglasses and spectacles will be so scarce that they will be regarded as curiosities. Throughout the civilized world there has, for several years, been a recognized move ment by educated medical men, particularly eye experts, toward treating sore, weak or strained eyes rationally. The old way was to fit a pair of glasses as soon as the eyes were found to be strained. These glasses were noth ing better than crutches. They never overcome the trouble, but merely gave a little relief while being worn and they make the eyes gradually weaker. Every wearer of eyeglasses knows that he might as well expect to cure rheuma tism by leaning upon a walking stick . The great masses of sufferers from eye strain and other curable optic disorders have been misled by those who were making for tunes out of eyeglasses and spectacles. Get Rid of Your Glasses Dr. John L. Corish, an able New York physician of long experience, has come for ward with the edict that eyeglasses must go. Intelligent people everywhere are indorsing him. The Doctor says that the ancients never disfigured their facial beauty with goggles. They employed certain methods which have recently been brought to the light of modern science. Dr. Corish has written a marvelous book entitled "How to Save the Eyes," which tells how they may be benefited, in many cases, instantly. There is an easy home treatment which is just as simple as it is effective, and it is fully explained in this wonderful book, which will be sent free to any one. A postal card will bring it to your very door. This bo.ik tells you why eyeglasses are needless and how they may be put aside forever. When you have taken advantage of this information obtained in this book you may be able to throw your glasses away and' should possess healthy, beautiful, soulfully expressive, magnetic eyes that indi cate the true character and win confidence. Bad Eyes Bring Bad Health Dr. Corish goes further. He asserts that eyestrain is the main cause of headaches, nervousness, inability, neurasthenia, brain fag, sleeplessness, stomach disorders, despondency and many other disorders. Leading oculists of the world confirm this and say that a vast amount of physical and mental misery is due to the influence of eyestrain upon the nerves and brain cells. When eyestrain is overcome these ailments usually disappear as if by magic. Free to Vou The Okola Method, which is fully explained in Dr. Corish's marvelous book, is the method which is directed at making your eyes normal and saving them from the disfigurement of these needless, unpleasant glass windows. If you wear glasses or feel that you should be wearing them, or if you are troubled with head ache in the forehead or nervousness when your eyes are tired, write today to Okola Laboratory, Dept. 88-A, Rochester, N. Y., and ask them to send you, postage prepaid, free of all charge, the book entitled "How to Save the Eyes," and you will never regret the step taken. BASEBALL-For What's In It (Continued from Page 7) money." Brush would probably draw his aerid face in a smile. Devore, you see, is the property of New York. He must work for them as long as they want him, and at the money they want to pay him or not at all. It's an odd thing about a baseball contract that the club is re quired to give only ten days' notice of release to a player, whereas he is denied the reciprocal right. Also, the National Commission can "blacklist" a player for any reason it deems fit ; that is to say, it can prevent him from making his living as a professional ball player in this coun try. Of course, a never-ending discussion as to the legality of this hold of employer on employee could be started. Were the players to take it up, it would, in all probability, be carried to the Supremo Court of the United States. As yet, how ever, there is no "Baseball Players' Union"; and until the players organize, their status must remain as it is. It is interesting to note, however, that a bill was framed for the California legisla ture making the present form of baseball contract in that state a misdemeanor. But there 's the club owners' side of it. They declare that the present form of contract is necessary as a means of protection. They point out how the war of 1900-1903, when the National and the American leagues paid such high salaries, nearly wrecked professional baseball, and they add, very truly, that the average ball-player could n 't make one-third his present wage in any other business. On the whole, the employees of this business have prospered well. Take the case of Mathewson. Eleven years ago, he left Bucknell College with a pocket book that needed replenishing, and a strong arm. Today, he is worth $150,000; and ia known as the "wealth iest of ball-players." Unlike the old- time professionals, Mathewson saved his money and invested. He is a shrewd, far-sighted business man. Here is an instance : For nearly four years Mathewson had been holding Reading stock, waiting for his price. One afternoon last May, the market closed at 159. The next morn ing Mathewson was in his broker's of fice. For a time the price fluctuated, dropping and rising; but at last 159 was reached again, and Mathewson closed out his holdings. He had made close to $75,000. And there are others: Thomas J. Lynch, once an umpire, now the $10,000 salaried president of the National League; Lajoie, who used to be a cab driver, now making his $9,000; Jennings, once a coal-miner, now an $18,000 mana ger and a lawyer besides; Chance, a struggling dentist, now a $12,000 mana ger and the owner of a large orange grove in California; Doyle, a "breaker boy," now the $5,000 captain of the Giants; Jackson, a mill-hand, now the high sal aried outfielder of Cleveland; and so on all made by baseball. Quite a change from 1865, you say, when the Empire Club, one of the best known of the early teams in this country, expelled a player, Eoder by name, for taking pay! At that time it was re garded as a disgrace. And at the risk of becoming historical it must be said that professional baseball began in Cin cinnati about 1865. Between two teams there the Reds and Buckeyes the rivalry was intense. Secretly, they im ported paid experts from the East, where the game had developed more rapidly. In 1869 all the Reds were under salary. The average wage was $100 a month and the total salary list $9,300, or as much as the Cincinnati team of 1907 paid its non playing manager 1 And as the organization and the play ers changed with the development of the business idea, so did the grounds the market place. In the late 'Sixties the first ball park in this country was opened. It was the Capitoline Grounds, in Brook lyn, and boasted a rickety wooden grand stand where seats sloped down on either side, fronting two diamonds on which two games were in progress. Odd, in deed, to vou who have seen the massive stadiums of concrete and steel at New York, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Philadelphia, Cleveland and Cincinnati. The story of the stadium is the story of John T. Brush, now owner of the New York club. Twenty years ago, Brush kept a little clothing store in Indianapo lis; but he saw an opportunity in base ball, and organized a team. In course of time, he acquired the big club in Cin cinnati. One night the "fire-proof iron amphitheater," as his park in that city was called, caught fire and burned like kindling wood. Upon inspecting the ruins ten hours later, Brush remarked: "I want a park that will leave me free to go to bed in peace without the fear of being aroused at three A. M. to be told that the stands are in ashes." So, he commissioned his contractor to build a plant of concrete and steel, nam ing it "The Palace of the Fans." Some years later, Brush acquired the New York club; and one night last Spring, its wooden stadium, the Polo Grounds, was destroyed by fire. Again, Brush ordered a structure of concrete and steel Brush the ' ' man who was followed by fire. ' ' Today it is estimated that the ball parks of the National and the American Leagues are worth at least $10,000,000. Forbes Field, the triple-deck steel sta dium at Pittsburgh, cost $1,000,000. But the change in building is charac teristic of Brush. Wizened, bent by loco motor ataxia, he is regarded as the mas ter politician of the club owners. Of a far-seeing, subtle mind, he is the one man in the National League who has been able to cope in any way with the dom inance of Johnson. Those two have quar relled openly; breaches between their leagues have seemed imminent; but al ways Johnson has won. And while considering club owners "magnates" they are called let us turn for a moment to Charles Comiskey, the right arm of Johnson. Comiskey is of the type that it is easy to call "Old Roman." Big, bluff, kind, witty and free with his money, Comiskey is beloved of his associates. He likes to win a ball game and hates to lose one. Illustrative of his character, this story is told: One day he sat on the bench while his team, the Chicago "White Sox," were playing. In the ninth inning the score was a tie, and Isbell, one of his players, had reached third. The next batter lifted an easy fly just behind third, the left fielder coming way in and making the catch. Comiskey was turning to see who would come up next when he saw Isbell dash suddenly for the plate. It was a ridiculous play. Isbell apparently did not have a chance to score. Comiskey, thoroughly excited, jumped to his feet and ran out on to the field yelling: "Look at him! He 's out forty feet, standing up. I '11 fine him fifty dollars ! ' ' Then, the ball thrown from third hit Isbell in the back and rolled to the grand stand, Isbell scoring easily. Instantly, Comiskey ran forward and meeting his player, threw one arm around him affec tionately and said : ' ' That 's the stuff, Izzy. Always take a chance; do the unexpected. That wins ball games, my boy. Great work ! ' ' But in contrast to the Machiavelian Brush, and to the bluff Comiskey as well, is Mrs. Helen H. Britton. Yes, a woman! She's the owner of the St. Louis Club, and directs the club affairs herself. 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