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Protect Your Second Sense — Hearing
We all know "the five senses" — sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. Next to sight, probably the second most important to us is hearing. Many of us take our hearing for granted. Not until we begin to lose it do we realize how dependent we are upon it in almost every daily activity. "In 1961 it was estimated that nearly 6,000,000 people in the United States had Impaired hearing and the number has undoubtedly increased since then." After the age of 40 the number increases sharply. Loss of hearing result from infections, par?' ticularly in children, certain drugs, injury to the ears or head, exposure to excess sive noise, and aging. Recently one authority oh deafness said, "Of all the handicaps encountered in deafness, I believe that loneliness, and especially the fear of loneliness, is possibly the greatest problem. You_ and I as hearing pe.OQle_ -have Seen lonely, but I dcT not believe that we can ever quite realize the degree of
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