The posture of school children, with its home hygiene and new efficiency methods for school training . d be much varied, that the condi-tions (in this case, high pillows) should be right, and that in-dividual faults of posture should be studied, that those habitualsleeping positions which aggravate or cultivate them may beavoided. CHAIRS AND TABLES. — One has only to watch in thestreet cars the posture of little children sitting on seats so highthat their feet cannot reach the floor, to realize how the customof expecting children to adapt themselves to the chairs of grown-ups, both at home and
The posture of school children, with its home hygiene and new efficiency methods for school training . d be much varied, that the condi-tions (in this case, high pillows) should be right, and that in-dividual faults of posture should be studied, that those habitualsleeping positions which aggravate or cultivate them may beavoided. CHAIRS AND TABLES. — One has only to watch in thestreet cars the posture of little children sitting on seats so highthat their feet cannot reach the floor, to realize how the customof expecting children to adapt themselves to the chairs of grown-ups, both at home and outside it, must affect the posture of allbut the most robust. The whole body seems to yield with col-lapsed chest and shoulders in the direction of the suspended feet,and there are probably few adults who have not a vivid mem-ory of aching backs that, in their childhood days, accompanieddangling legs in church, parlor, or at the dining table. The harm wrought by misfit furniture on the posture of schoolchildren has long been recognized. Specialists in the medical 1 Manaciene, 94; Osborne, HOME HYGIENE FOR POSTURE 159 profession and in education and invention have combined, andcommissions have been appointed, to devise furniture correctin shape and adjustable to the varying heights of growing how much attention does this subject have in the averagehome? Probably the children are exceptional who, after theyoutgrow the high chair of infancy, are not expected to eatat a high table, seated on a chair that necessitates the craningof necks and the dangling of feet. The harm of these positions is explained, with illustrations,in the chapter on school hygiene. In this place it may be statedthat both for adults and children, the shape as well as the heightof chairs is of especial importance for proper development andcarriage of the body. Many chairs literacy mold the sitterinto most harmful positions. A forward vertical curve in thechair back will thrust the head for
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