The posture of school children, with its home hygiene and new efficiency methods for school training . and energy conveyed bygood and poor posture are readily appreciated by children ifillustrated for them, and the importance of these in business orsocial Hfe appeals especially to the older children, many of whomexpect to apply for positions when they leave school. The prideof personal appearance has also a legitimate appeal to olderpupils; and girls may well learn that the effectiveness of a gowndepends less upon its elaboration than on the way it is carriedand worn. EXAMPLES OF GREAT MEN AND
The posture of school children, with its home hygiene and new efficiency methods for school training . and energy conveyed bygood and poor posture are readily appreciated by children ifillustrated for them, and the importance of these in business orsocial Hfe appeals especially to the older children, many of whomexpect to apply for positions when they leave school. The prideof personal appearance has also a legitimate appeal to olderpupils; and girls may well learn that the effectiveness of a gowndepends less upon its elaboration than on the way it is carriedand worn. EXAMPLES OF GREAT MEN AND WOMEN may beeffectively used in appealing to the intelligence of the children,and frequent illustrations may be found in portraiture and idealart. One class of boys and girls who selected Queen Louise as a class picture, gave as their reason, Because she stands sowell. With pictures of Washington and Lincoln before them,of kings and queens, of pioneers and heroes, who figure in his-tory and literature, it should not be hard to inspire any childwith a desire for the best carriage he can Bartlett Plate XXV. — Lafayette. Paris. CHAPTER XXIVTHE SCHOOL HYGIENE OF POSTURE Erect posture is at all times closely related to physical andmental condition. Indigestion, weakness of the respiratoryorgans, lack of sleep, worry over examinations or promotions,any form of nervous or mental depression, — all show in thecarriage of the body, which in turn may aggravate or alleviatethe physiological conditions. It seems especially deplorablethat in addition to these general influence, a growing child,who is establishing his habits of posture for life, should be sub-jected to the almost constant adverse influences of school it is a fact that almost every school occupation, exceptphysical training and singing, tends to induce poor carriage ofthe body. The sedentary nature of its work is the schools first and mostpersistent enemy to good posture. For this an adequate amountof
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