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JAMES C. ROSS , Ph. G. B. S. , M. D. DR. W. I. . SEYMOUR , PRESIDENT AND MANAGER. TV. CALVERT COX , M. D.
HUGH W. MAC LACHLAN. MATHEW J. WILLIAMS.
General Officers and Staff of the Dr. Seymour Medico-Optical Company , Located at 52 Dearborn Street , Chicago , lIIL
NOW IN CHICAGO.
The Or , Seymour Medico-Optical
Company with Their Splendid
Corps of Assistants ,
PHENOMENAL SUCCESS IN OMAHA
HAKES CHANGE NECESSARY
Dr , Seymour's Methods Endorsed by
Leading Newpapers and Physicians
Over the Entire West ,
Omaha has been the home of this
company for nearly ten years , during
which time their phenomenal success
In the scientific fitting of glasses and
treatment of all eye troubles has made
them a reputation which extends over
the entire West.
Many new and scientific applications
of medical treatments through the
science of glasses have been demon
strated by them beyond a question of
doubt. Their moving to Chicago was
in order to increase their facilities for
work and enlarge their field of opera-
tlon-
tlonThey
They have now established beyond
question the finest institution of this
kind west of New York city , and the
physicians in connection represent
professors from the leading eye and
ear infirmaries in the United States
and Europe , who have taken up these
new methods as being an improve
ment over the free use of the knife
and the old time methods of the pro
fession. Their treatments are con
fined to the eye and the ear , nose and
throat when jrought in connection
this delicate organ.
The particular reason for designat
ing the company as the "Medico-opti
cal Company" is at once to convey
the proper idea as to the field we cover.
Our work is not limited to that of the
optician , nor does it present alone
medical knowledge necessary for
proper treatment of all diseased con
ditions , but it is a combination of the
medical and optical sciences , and at
once places the physicians in connec
tion with this company far in advance
of the ordinary oculist or optician.
The meaning of the word optician
gives at once the Impression that a
man may understand all that goes with
accurate knowledpp of Ipnses and spec-
'tsclesand the word oculist may be ap
plied to any physician , although he
knows absolutely nothing of the
science of making and fitting glasses.
If you are not personally acquaint
ed with the great work that has been
accomplished by Dr. Seymour in the
past decade , it is only necessary to
make special inquiry of the numerous
references given in other parts of
this edition , or better still , improve
this opportunity of calling on the rep
resentative of this company , who will
advise you impartially as to the condi
tion of your eyes and the treatment
necessary to bring the desired relief.
This offer of free consultation should
be highly appreciated by the people
who are interested in this subject , as
it enables you to learn the nature of
your trouble as well as the expense of
having it properly treated. There are
many interesting articles in this pub
lication which are taken from leading
papers over various parts of the coun
try , and to those who have * personal
interest in this work we urge you to
carefully read them , as they present
the views of many prominent people
who have investigated this subject.
A Common Malady Which
cine Does Not Relieve ,
STRAIN RESULTS IN HEADACHE
Many Cases of Headache Are Curable
Only by the Aid of Scientifi
cally-Fitted Glasses.
The fact that new headache remedies
are being constantly manufactured and
placed on the market is evidence that
this particular disease is on the in
crease , for as is the demand , so is the
supply in all things , and any drug
gist will tell you that the sale of head
ache remedies is enormous. This is a
serious state of affairs and calls for
earnest thought. There is evidently
some undiscovered cause for this wide
spread trouble , which seems to affect
the young as well as the old , the strong
and healthy as well as the weak.
People afflicted with headaches are
very apt to attribute it to some form
of dyspepsia or stomach trouble and
seek relief in pills and patent medi
cines , which in most cases do more
harm than good. Of course all reme
dies have their virtues and there are
some who receive the desired relief ,
but by the well-informed it is univer
sally admitted that opiates are admin-
istered in some form in nine-tenths of
all the headache remedies , which sim
ply dull the sensibilities and quiet the
nerves temporarily.
In seeking for a scientific remedy
the real cause of these troubles should
be ascertained and a little considera
tion on the part of eye-workers , who
employ the organ of sight continually ,
would enable them to solve the prob
lem. The thought never seems to oc
cur to them that a headache may be
the protest of an overworked eye , and
that by relieving the strain on this
the most delicate set of muscles and
nerves in the body , they will react and
assist the entire nervous system. Try
to imagine what the effect would be if
one were obliged to lift a dumbbell
even though very light for a thou
sand times in succession. Can you not
see how nerve exhausting it would be ?
For the first hundred times you would
not think it at all wearing , but the
continued strain on the same set of
muscles , even though very slight ,
would cause the strongest man to col
lapse from sheer nervous exhaustion.
So it is with the muscles which regu
late the sight. The defect may not be
great enough to cause a person to sus
pect that there was anthing wrong
with lueir sight , but the continual ef
fort to adjust the eye , if not relieved ,
may affect the whole nervous system
seriously. Many cases of nervous trou
ble and even St. Vitus dance have been
traced to this cause alone.
These facts should appeal to any
thinking person , as their logic is fully
demonstrated by the very nature of the
symptoms complained of. How often
we hear it remarked by the victim of
headaches that reading , sewing , bright
lights , attending theater or in fact do
ing anything which requires the appli
cation of sight , brings on intense head
aches.
In talking to Dr. Seymour on this
subject he related his experience in his
every-day practice and though it is an
old story with him it will doubtless beef
of interest to many. He said about
one person in three who came to him
with eye troubles suffered more or less
with headaches. In many cases it has
not been the headaches which have
brought them to him as the sight in
most cases has become so bad that the
patient feared the loss of it entirely ,
but the headache is usually one of the
first symptoms complained of. Once in
a while people will come to the doctor
who are not conscious of the fact that :
their sight is failing , but they had
heard that relief from neadache can
be obtained by wearing proper glasses ,
and thus learn for the first time that
their sight is defective. The most fre
quent remark made by his patients
who have been treated with glasses is :
"Why , doctor , I have not had the
headache since you made me these
glasses" ; and the delight and comfort
experienced by freedom from this dis
tressing malady is well worth the
trouble of investigating this simple
remedy.
PARENTS AND TEACHERS
DISADVANTAGES OF IMPAIRED
SIGHT AMONG SCHOOL
CHILDREN.
Your Child Might Bo the Brightest In
the Class ir Its Eyes Were
Not Defective.
How often do we see children ham
pered and kept back in their school
work by defective vision. It is the
most serious disadvantage that a child
can be placed under , for it not only
makes them appear backward and
stupid to their teachers , but it also
makes them lose confidence in them
selves. The greatest amount of gram
mar school work is done by the use of
illustrations , and where a child with
perfect vision is able to follow the
teacher and gain the benefit of the ex
planation , the one with impaired sight
in his endeavor to see the illustration
loses the explanation and thus misses
the benefit of the lesson. They become
discouraged and conclude that it is
their lack of ability that keeps them
behind their companions. This most
serious condition of affairs can be rem
edied by the scientific adjustment of
proper glasses.
It is the duty of every parent to in
vestigate and ascertain if their chil
dren are thus harrassed and oppressed.
Oftentimes parents are heard to re
mark that they know there is certain
ly something wrong with their chil
dren's eyes , but that they can not af
ford to have them examined by an op
tician. Now , is this not the height of
injustice , and if looked at in the proper
light does it not appear extremely un
wise ? The expenditure of a few dollars
lars now may mean the saving of hun
dreds later on. It certainly must be
evident to all parents that it is their
duty to give their children all the ad
vantages that are within their reach ,
and owing to th marvelous progress
made in the science of optics in the
past few years it is now possible to
correct almost all imperfections of
sight.
School authorities all over the coun
try have found it necessary to take this
matter into their own hands , and in
most cities competent specialists have
been appointed to assist the teachers
in determining the condition of sight
in each department.
THE CAKE WALK IN TEXAS.
The "beauty and chivalry" of the col
ored four hundred of Houston had
gathered in the city hall a few nights
ago for the purpose of having a "cake
walk , " and as I was anxious to see the
genuine article I procured a ticket and
presented myself at the hall. One side
of the room was reserved for white
people and the other for the colored
folks or "niggers , " as these southern
ers call them. A chalk line had been
marked around the room , enclosing a
space about fifty feet square , within
which the walking was to be done , and
presently the inspiring strains of "A
Hot Time in the Old Town , " played by
a brass band , set everybody's feet to
patting. The air was presently taken
up by a string band composed of negro
musicians and the grand march began.
After circulating a'bout the room for a
number of times , the cake walkers ,
among whom were professionals from
Dallas and Galveston , seated them
selves and we were treated to some
very clever clog dancing , one of which
was a representation of the noise made
by a train of cars in starting and slow
ing down , another cut the pigeon wing ,
etc. , and in fact the dancing was the
cleverest I have ever seen , not except
ing stage performances , and it was
purely original with many of the danc
ers and was unlike anything I had ever
seen before.
After this the band "
, struck up "At a
Georgia Camp Meeting , " and the cake
walk began in earnest. A couple took
their places upon the floor the man
was a tall negro in a silk hat and red
Prince Albert coat , his fair partner a
very good looking yellow girl , dressed
in a dark red silk dress. They were
both of them exceedingly graceful in
all their movements and in promenaT-
ing around the hall betrayed the natur
al and instinctive love for music in
herent in their race. This promenade
was followed by an individual walk in
which the man would go one way and
the woman another. Then a meeting
would be had. It was supposed to be
a street scene. A flirtation followed ,
winding upwith a love passage , in
which they both displayed some clever
acting in pantomime. This was fol
lowed by a quarrel , which of course
had to be made up , then a shower Is
supposed to come on and the lovers
use an umTbrella. They again have a '
quarrel and the inevitable "razzer" of
coontown is brought into action by the
buck , but he is baflled by the quick ac
tion of the girl , who points a pistol at
him and startles the audience with a
shot , which settles Mr. Coon and
frightens him into submission. He
finds his "baby" is too "warm" for him.
They retired amid a storm of applause
from both sides of the house , and the
band striking up another popular air ,
another couple take their places upon ,
the fleor. The man's costume is slight
ly different , but still very strik.ng ,
and the colored belle on his arm is a
study in black and white in her low-
necked and short sleeved gown of white
silk , her finely molded arms and neck
of shining eftony , presenting a strik
ing contrast to her white dress. This
couple seemed to eclipse the first one
in grace and certainly displayed all the
poetry of motion which is characteris
tic of this race of people , which we of
the north know so little about.
While the white people of the south
treat the negroes as an inferior race ,
socially , mentally and morally , there
nevertheless seems to be a very friend
ly feeling between them and the col
ored folks , which amounts to affection
in many cases where years of service
in the families of white people have
endeared them to their employers.
"What a northerner would probably
consider a harsh manner of speaking
to them is not so considered down here
and is only used occasionally when a
"nigger" forgets to keep his place. It
is evident that the southern man is
the friend of the negro , despite the be
lief to the contrary , and the fact that
the negroes are happy and content In
the south proves that they do not suf
fer at the hands of their white breth
ren.
Composed on Trains.
Sir Arthur Sunivan was once asked
where he was able to compose best ,
and under what circumstances his
ideas flowed most freely. "There Is no
place , " he said , "where I have so many
inspirations as in a railway carriage.
There is something In the rapidity of
the motion , In the clanging of the Iron ,
and in the whirring of the wheels'
which seems to excite the imagination
and supplies material for a host of
harmonies. "
Nothing is useless to the man oi
sense ; h . turns everything to account.
La Fontaine.
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