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Popular Science Monthly 



"Poor chap i You can't see very far ?" 

 A printed card was shown him, twenty 

 feet away. "I can read only the first 

 line." They moved him up within 

 ten feet of a mirror and placed the 

 printed card just over his chest as shown 

 below. "How many lines can you 'see 

 distinctly?" He could read a number 

 of letters now. "You are taken," was 

 the verdict. He read the reflected 

 type at exactly the same distance 

 from which he said he could not read 

 in the first test, for- 

 getting that the re- 

 flection doubled his 

 reading distance 



Couldn't see with his right eye at all, said 

 Willie. The doctor befuddled him so with 

 a two-color glass that before he realized it he 

 was reading a card with his poor blind eye 



"I've got sciatica something tenible.;' They made him take 

 off his shoe and sock and stretch out his leg. That was enough. 

 No man suffering from sciatica could do it. He literally put 

 his foot in it and is now marking time to the music 



