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ING LECTURE.
"The Wonders of Nature in the Eye" was the subject of 20 absorbing lantern lecture given by Dr. G. M. Harston at the Helena May Institute yesterday evening.
Harston described the eye as the most varied in its attributes of all organs in the body, capable as it is of expressing anger, pleasure, emotion and the disposition of its owner. It was the most delicate Organ and appeared to be well protected from all sides, but not in front; but nature really provided protection with great ingenuity. Some might look on the hirsute appendages called eyebrows as an adornment. They undoubtedly were, but he must point out, seffe wock, that before hats were invented in the days of primitive man the eye-brows were there to deflect the courses of rain drops downward and away from the eye. Even in these days there were men with A former shaggy eyebrows. Consul General in Canton had very shaggy eyebrows, and made great play with them in argument. One ay in a discussion with the Viceroy
of Canton, the latter was adamant
in his refusal to concede the Consul's point, and turning to the interpreter said "Tell Her Britannic Majesty's Consul General that I am
blood vessels. All were familiar with the brilliant colours reflect. ed from the eyes of carnivora. This was due to them being very long sighted and the light rays were reflected back again from what was known as the Tapetum, as a pencil of rays which diverge as soon as they leave the eye, giving a wonderful array of colours ranging from gold and purple to greenish sheen.
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NATIONAL CONFERENCE.
MID-OCEAN RESCUE.
COURT OF INQUIRY,
The loss of the British steamer "Mary Horlock,” ́whose crew abandoned her in mid-ocean and, after being rescued by the President Taft" were The National Conference of the Ss. Nurses Association of China was brought to Hongkong aboard the s.s."Empress of Canada" is to be Court of held in the King You University investigated by a Medical School, Canton, China Inquiry which will assemble at the
inclusive, from January 31 to Februni 6 Harbour Office next Thursday at Conway Lieut. Commander Hake. R.N.R., (acting Harbour Master) will preside and the other members of the Court will be
"One hundred and seventy People attended the Conference, coming rom the provinces of China, Fourosa and Japan.
The delegates were delighted with the everwhehuing and lavish ho pitality accorded them by the people of Canton.
The opening reception was held | on Thursday, January 31. the which time the Conference was wel. Medical School assembly- Imil, at camell by Governor Lin Chung-hoi, Miss Liur koo, President of ter
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TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
The third member of the staff of the China Mail to visit the "Globe Trotters," confirms his colleagues' opinions and shares their view regarding the performances which Dick Norton and his merry men We do not know if they will thank and maids offer to the discerning. us for referring to it as a Pierrot entertainment. It is that and something more. It combines something with the very best that made Pierrot shows so popular years ago, with the modern acquisition which the age demands, Thus we have not only good singers and gaggers"; mimicry and dancing above the ordinary, The party of about one hundred but a bright stage effect, and arrived from the North on the colour scheme of dress which is President Jackson" January 31, most effective. Mr. Wallingford and will return on the wire ship Tate can "thump the ivories." sing September 10. and act and tell a story: Mr. Dick Norton has a sonorous voice and uses it well. Jack Crichton sings and makes us laugh. We begin 10.regret we have mentioned names for we are uncertain about those of the ladies who are all charming and versatile. And who is "he"
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN or "she" who masquerades under
ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING that the THIRTY-FIFTH the irritating sign of 1 Mere is a female impersonator who equals
will be held at the Company's Offices, if not exceeds in ability, those Conference sessions and the after 3rd March 1924, at 11 A.M. for the The mornings were given up to St. George's Building on MONDAY, we have seen "in all parts of the
noons to excursions to the niedient world." The Cammille sketch is institutions of the City Visits purpose of presenting the Report of brilliantly clever and so is the were nude to the large Fong Pin the Directors together with item by the Company called (Native) Hospital, the Canton Hos Statement of Accounts to 31st Decem "Things that never happen."pital the oldest western hospital ber 1923, and electing Directors The G. T. change their programme in China, the Hackett Medical and Auditor. to-night and to-morrow. That Collego and David Gregg Hospital, The TRANSFER BOOKS of the shows the extent of their repertoire, the John G. Kerr Hospital for Company will be CLOSED from 23rd And they perform at the Theatre Insure, the Canton Christian | February to 3rd March 1924, both Royal. If you want to get rid of College and a special tour thro days inclusive: the Theatre DOW is your the wonderful plint of the King opportunity. The old walls can-Yee University Medical School and not stand much longer the con- tioucd Onslaught of laughter which was their portion last night. We have said it and we speak truth.
Madanie Wellington Koopassed through the Colony with her son yesterday, en route for Singapore.
Two stabbing cases occurred yesterday, both victima being The iris had two sets of muscles taken to hospital for treatment. A which either dilated or contracted Chinese hawker alleges that a man the pupil. Anger was always named Ah Fat stabbed him at the indicated by dilation of the Star Ferry Wharf while 3 pupils. As a rule long sighted Shaukiwan carpenter states that a people had small pupils and short wound in his abdomen was in- sighted people large pupils. The flicted as the result of a family inner-most coat of the eye was the quartel. retina which was most intimately connected with vision.
The Interesting Part.
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anton Auxiliary: Mrs. P. J. Todd. President at the Southern Branch of the Association and Dr. S. F. Lee, President of the Kurg Lee University Medical School.
Hospital.
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Tibo main points of interest passed by the Conference for the fiture work of the Agociation were the enfurgonent of the Constitution to include the Committee on Nursing Education with sub-committees of
and examinations, plants for bend." translasim, registration, caniculum quarters in Shanghai which will cost 200,000 taels, plans for the public MONDAY, February 18th 1924, at health work and teaching courses in health in co-operation with thei Council on Health Eduention for China. the selection of delegiten
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to the Internationall Council of Nurses to be held in Helsingfors, Finland in 1998, and the election of officers for the rest two years.
The growth of the Association the two-years-has-beer the most wonderful in all its history.
At the time of the last Confer ence, two years ago, there were dne hundred and thirty-two members. Now there is an enrolment of about
which are Chinese. Twenty-seven new schools of nursing have been registered and the subscription all for the nurses journal has doubled.
This Conference will go down in higory as the time when the Chinese began to have a big share in some the Association work.
The lens was the most interest- The decrease in power of accommo-seven hundred and fifty, one half of ing part of the eye. It could be dation is progressive up to 60 years varied in thickness, and the thicker of age. At or often after this age it became the shorter the focus. It Nature indulged in one of the most was by that means we were en remarkable of her wise provisions abled to read and do all forms of for the benefit of the human race. near work. in long sighted people They could often read in the lens had to be constantly more the papers of the wonderful convex, so that the rays of light sight may come to a focus on the retina. centenarian who could read The next Conference will be held
the lens focussed the smallest print without the aid in Nanking in 1926. Ordinarily parallel rays, that was to say, all of glasses. How did it happen? The burees are leaving for their distance The reason was that Nature her-different cities filled with delight rays coming from of twenty feet and over. In short self diminished the refracting and admiration for the medial work sighted people the eyeball was power of the lens by a process being done in Canton and will carry too long, and the rays came to a known as short sighted degenera the inspection of the Conference focus in front of the retina. This tion of the lens, so that such buck to all parts of China. could only be remedied by placing people were wisely made short
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a concave lens in front of the eyesighted in their old age. There
all famous
not afraid of his eyebrows." to counteract the convexity of the was formely a famous rifle shot in lens within the eye, and so place this Colony who developed this
Nearly the focus further back, on the re- condition. tina instead of in front of it. surgeons have a slight degree of Occasionally we met people who short sight. The late Sir Frederick were long sighted in one meridian Treves was short sighted. A slight
(Laughter.) The eyebrows were supplemented by the eye lashes, These were short in the male and long in the female, thereby enable ing her to protect herself against glances of the male. (Laughter.) The eye was further protected by the Instantaneous shutter effect of the eye lid.
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the intruding and inquisitive of the eye, and short sighted in the degree of short sight enabled sur- The Export Advertisers & Bill Postez, other. This was termed astigma geons to see objects at the usual tism. In short sight, or myopia, operating distance more clearly the converse obtained. This con- and in greater detail. This lead to dition of mastigmatis could be quickness and thoroughness in very easily demonstrated. at the operating. dinner table by looking at oneself
Most Beautiful Eyes.
The Cause of Cataract.
In construction, the eye pos in the concave or convex side of a
The less is the part of the eye sessed an amazing perfection of bright spoon. In the middle ages, detail. The eye ball was roughly when astigmatic husbands first had that was affected in cataract. The spherical, and attached by a their astigmatism corrected by sui- popular notion that a film grows staik, which is the optic nerve, to table glasses, they entered into a over the eye arose from the fact the brain. The fibrous coat which renewed period of happiness on that as the lens becomes more gives strength to the eye ball was discovering how really goed look-opaque,, the appearance to the what is familiarly known as the ing their wives were. (Laughter) patient is as if a film really has. white of the eye. The lecturer People who suffered from long grown there. The trouble was real- then went on to detail the sighted astigmatism were generally inside the eye. in operating structure of the eye. The iris, hely quick in temper and easily pro- the lens was removed from the. Surgeons ald not, 26 some said, was the coloured portion voked to anger. Evidence has eye. which could be seen from, the been brought forward to show that people suppose, take that eye out, front. It was lined with pigment both Carlyle, and Huxley suffered give it a spring-clean, and put it and those people where it was from long-sighted astigmatism, back again. (Laughter).
Dr. Harston then delivered some heavily pigmented had brown the evidence being based on their eyes. Those with a lesser amount handwriting. The Hon. Colonial interesting remarka on vision. The had beautiful hazel eyes and Secretary of this Colony had effec: image of objects formed on the re those with very little pigment tively demonstrated on the local tina, he said, was upside down, just had the most beautiful eyes, stage the value of "A Pair of like the inverted view seen on the namely, of a deep caerulean blue. Spectacles" in removing distor ground. glass screen of a camera. Sometimes nature was unklad and tion of outlook. But whether he This inverted view is rectified in mixed her paints and then we has recommended this treatment the brain, so that vision was really had eyes of a greyish green to mumbers of the Constitutional a psychological process, and intion colour, or that cold, hard, un-Reform Association, not being aately related to the sense of touch. sympathetic eye which was member of that august body he The lecturer then exhibited extremely useful, to men of in- was unable to say. (Laughter Interior of the eye. These dealt many lantern slides showing the flexible purpose such as politicians, sharebrokers, and official receivers The process of focussing far Europeans, to natives of the Congo. with ayes of various people, from in bankruptcy... (Laughter)..
objects near at hand was termed The latter were very long sighted, The iris formed a circular hole, accommodation. It was intimately and if they could read would be which was Lamiliar, as the pupil, connected with the power of con able to read a Times articio, et a and which appeared black in verging the eyes. The human eye distance of 10 feet. He showed colour. This was due to pigment when normal, could accommodate pictures of eyes which contained contained in the innermost coat of itself to all requirements, but there more pigment than others, and the eye, namely the retina. In / came a time in life when this power explained, that eyes with more | some breeds of rabbits one found diminished, and glasses must than pink eyes and this was due to the be resorted to for nour work. - This pigment could better and the fact that there was very little occurred between forty and forty Share of the end in tropic coan- pliment behind the its so that five years of age in Europeans, but At the conclusion of ' most in- light could penetrate into the much earlier age in Chinese, s teresting lectura Dr. Harsion, was Interior of the eye and he reflected was probably due to the Chinese accorded a hearty vote of thanks back again. The pinkish hue was sending their entiren to schoon they wroposition of Sir. Claus doe to light reflected: from the much earlier age than Eropsang
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