THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 26, 1989.
Beauty and You
- by PATRICIA LINDSAY -
FIVE SIMPLE EXERCISES STRENGTHEN WEAKENED EYES
A very considerate reader sent me five eye exercises which, she claims, strengthens her eyesight remarkably.
**I wore glasses for fourteen years. My eyes were so poor the doctor informed me that I would have to stop work," she writes, "I was then in my late twenties. These exercises relieved the awful pain in my weak eyes and aided me to see without my eyeglasses.
"The movements not only help straight eyes, but correct crossed eyes. I know of a little girl who wore very thick glasses and whose eyes were. crossed. In three
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A person who is always making excuses is up against continually retracing his steps to erase the bad imprints he's made along his path of advancement.
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BLINK!
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Blinking strengthens your eye. sight, Blink many times a day!
months time her eyes · were straight and she began to grow rapidly. Her entire system was strengthened."
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ANYONE CAN DO THEM
"SPRING FASHIONS" IN GERMANY-With the continuing of spring weather members of the Innsbruck Theatre ballet in Southern Germany are having their rehearsals in the mountains. Here is one of the ballet girls leaving for open-air rehearsals, watched by the
"hotel boy."
1 Night and morning move the head slowly from extreme left to extreme right blinking the eyes (wrung out of chilled water).
you do this. Then roll the 3-Place the palms of your hands head slowly down to one side, uplightly over your eyes. Think of and around, making a complete something pleasant so you will re- circle. Blink the eyes as you do lax. Keep the palms there for fifteen minutes. Do this several times a day whenever your eyes feel tired or strained,
this.
ing the day. Blinking lubricates the eyes. Blinking while you read or while you do close work is very beneficial.
IF YOU WEAR EYE-GLASSES
As you practice these eye exer- cises, try to do without your eye glasses.
In the beginning go through the first movement twenty-five times and increase night and morning
4-Look up at the sun with closed "The first day I took my glasses to one hundred times. The second eyes. Move head very, very slowly off I had to put them back on for
be movement should
done from from left to right so the rays will short periods. In a few days I
entirely," night penetrate your eye-lids evenly. Do discarded them
writes twenty-five to thirty times and morning.
this thirty minutes રી day. You the person' who sent me these eye 2-For circulation. Place
may do it in fifteen minute periods. movements.
At first "The first week. I bathed my hot cloths (wrung out of hot water) Do not frown or squint. on closed eyes for several minutes. this exercise may bother you but eyes several times during the day cold cloths. The When cloths cool, heat them again. it soon will become a pleasure as with hot and Then place cold
eyes you feel the sun healing your eyes, reason for trying to get along with- 5-Place a sign with the word out your glasses is that the exercis- "Blink" on it, in a prominent placeing is strengthening your eyes and to remind you to blink often dur- your glasses may be too strong."
cloths on
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