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rmmiMmt'&wcW& M 1 rSHBBBaWHWtfwfli 8 THE NEBRASKAN-HESrERIAN Bhjgj. II I1 a i EYES, SPECTACLES, AND NEWS PAPERS. How long ought one bo ablo to read a r.ewspaper without any liscomfortor injury to the eyes? Six or eight hours a day. People with good eyes or with the right glasses can read print for six or eight hours a day steadily. If this can be done, and if the finest print looks the same to "both eyes, there can not be much wrong. Good eyes with out glasses can do this; but no eyes with bad glasses can do this. One half of the people cannot read the newspapers for any length of time on account of the bad eyes, improper glasses, or both. Nearly all persons from instinct or habit and from the sheer necessity of trusting the eyesight feel that their eyes are perfect. Thero is not one chance in a hundred that this is true, and if they will only take a minute and try their eyes, even with the ordinary tests used by the government and rail roads, many will find that they are badly mistaken, and if they will try the more useful and yet more delicate tests of the specialist doubt will grow into conviction that something is wrong. Many of the shortcomings of the eyes do not give trouble or need attention until late in, life. On the other hand, a slight failing may quite early in life injure the eyes beoynd repair. Other parts of the body can differ in size and in shape, and still through life give good service, but in this one thing be sure all eyes must a as true to a fixed standard, both in size and in shape, as a legal, minted dollar, and if not they are not right, and trouble will come sooner or later. A man's eyes for a great distance are not so good as an eagle's, nor for small and near objects so good as a monkey's. Nearly all animals can see better at night than man. The Bush men of Australia, and some of the African tribes have in their wonderful eyesight for distant objects their best means of protection. A man may see things that are far off all right and yet not see well to read, or it may "be just the opposite with h.m. In near sightedness objects are magnified, thus some who cannot see a man across the street are able to do the finest en graving "by the naked eye. People with good eyes can read for hours at a time without any trouble, and can see -well at any distance, no matter how far, and need no spectacles until late in life ,and then only for reading. Old (people like these can find glasses fong 'quarter' that fit them all right. There is no other test that will show as many of the failings in the eyes as the simple one here given: Hold fine 'print about sixteen inches from the eyes. Cover first one eye and then the other with a card. Keep both eyes open. Now try the eyes with adver tiser's print, letters naif an inch square, about twenty feet away. In the aged this is the best test to toll whether both eyes see exactly alike. In this teBt shows they are not alike in one under thirty there 1b something badly wrong. If any difference is found, reuding and near work should bo lot alone until the eyes are perfectly fitted and balance with glasses bo ub to bog print alike and act In harmony. In conclusion, Dr. Seymour wIbuob ito call Bpoclal attention to that partic ular trait of human nature, Which for iBome 'inexplicable reaBon will accept his Invitation to come and consult him WELU WELL! WELL! HAVE YOU SEEN THEM? They are at KENNEDY'S, and without doubt the best groups in town. Call at our studio and get our Special Rates to- Students. d S mnedi(&hetegrapher. 132 South 12th St. about their eyes and then go homo and tell their neighbors that they can do just as well for less money with some one else. This may be true in their estimation, but bo it remembered that Dr. Seymour makes a careful examina tion of every trouble before setting any price, and all patients retain the privilege of doing just as they choose after the price is set. 1219 K stree. Hours: 9 A. M. to 4 P. M .daily; Sun day 10 to 12. SOLDIER'S MEMORIAL HALL. Progress on the addition to the west end of Grant Memorial Kail is slow be cause of the daily rains last week. The new building will be known as soldiers memorial hall and will be used as a girls' gymnasium. It can easily be turned into an audience Toom When occasion demands. It will be connected with Grant Hall hy an ordinary double door only and the two large floors can not be turned into one as was at first planned. The outside dimensions of the build ing are 100 by CO and the same height as Grant Hall. The main entrance will he in the center of the west end and from the ground floor. After step ping into the entrance hall steps will lead from the right and left to the second floor where all gymnasium classes will be held. This will also be the audience room. A few feet, from the head of either of these stairs are the steps to the balconies. These ex tend across the north and south ends. The organ loft for the alumni organ will he directly ahove the entrance hall of the first floor and between the landings of the stairs on the second floor, 'ihis will be four and one-half feet above the level of the floor. The choir and speaker's platform will he in front of the organ loft and two feet above the level of the floor. The office of the director of the women's gymna sium will be located to the left of the platform and in front of the left stairs. The first floor will he divided into several rooms as follows; locker room AlvAf' 1fsr4-i,ik Tnrm lXr7fACi Ifm tlfn ' room 20x40; cloak, toilet, and meas uring rooms. The haths will he lo cated on the 1st floor of Grant Hall in the rooms now used "by the women as locker cloak and office rooms. ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS RAISED. Rush medical college of the Univer Blty of Chicago has changed the re quirements for graduation. Seven years must now be Bpont to obtain an M. D. Five of theBe years will be de voted to strictly medical branches, and will be passed at the college; the remaining two will be spent studying literary and ulaBUical .subjects at Chi cago or BOme similar institution. The additional year at Rush will be occu pied in chemical work. "WANTED. Ycttinc men and Womm n n1ri tn Cnmmfi-A and Shorthand courses and he assisted to positions. All graduates holding lucrative positions, and -we -wait for one-third of tuition until position i& secured. Special Teacher's Normal course April 2 to August i "Write for information. p n nn K,W IUS,MESS MU.EQE AND NOfeMAL SCHOOL, p. a, sinos, supt. .. , iibathicb.'nbb. ' IJifc J Zhe XHniversits Scbool of fllbusic trs w A. pposfte tfoe Campus. Students contemplating the study of Music, and those who have friends desirous of information concerning the advantages offered, are cordially invited to visit the T School and obtain an Illustrated Catalogue. f A. YOU CAN ENTER AT ANY TIME. WILLARD KIMBALL, DIRECTOR. y$&&fy&fy&ft&&&$fy&&&&&&&$: The Omaha Medical College, OMAHA, NEBRASKA, A strictly four-year course Medt cal College, the requirements ef 'which are fully up to these el the American Association of Helical Colleges, and the laws of the differ ent states. The new building fur nishes the most perfect laboratory rooms in the West, nertexceHent clinics are heiJ by the professors of the College In five ef the six Omaha Hospitals. 1 he twentieth annual course of lectures will begin Oct. 1st, 1000, and continue seven months. For information address, IR. EWIRI MOWN, SECRETARY, 1026 pk avc. OMAHA, MER. 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