one or two letters of a line; she then improved her sight with both eyes, to 20/50. her mother was a great help to me, by watching very carefully when the child practiced at home. no matter what the child was doing or whenever she read a book or while studying her lessons, the mother told her not to stare. the directions for treatment at home and in school were:—when she was asked to read something on the blackboard, she was not to look at the whole of a word or a sentence at once, but to look at the first letter of a word and blink her eyes, then 