Petersburg Pilot -

April 18, 1914 – According to the report of a committee of English physicians, who have just completed an investigation of the subject, the poor quality of the print used in many of the books and magazines children read is causing serious injury every day to an alarmingly large number of eyes.

After making a careful study of the various styles of type and their effect upon the vision, the committee declares that no child should be allowed to make a practice of reading any printed matter unless each letter is clean cut and well defined. Very condensed or compressed type was found to be ver...