The posture of school children, with its home hygiene and new efficiency methods for school training . rom the height of furniture, some propping of books, so thatthe head need not be bowed over a level surface for reading andwriting (Fig. 6i). The dual effect of such a stooping positionon eyesight and posture would seem too obvious to need dis-cussion ; but any onewho tries to correcteither defect in chil-dren finds, in a largemajority of cases, seri-ous neglect of the homeconditions mentioned. WEIGHT — The carryingof heavy loads is fatalto good posture in achild. Indeed, evenwith
The posture of school children, with its home hygiene and new efficiency methods for school training . rom the height of furniture, some propping of books, so thatthe head need not be bowed over a level surface for reading andwriting (Fig. 6i). The dual effect of such a stooping positionon eyesight and posture would seem too obvious to need dis-cussion ; but any onewho tries to correcteither defect in chil-dren finds, in a largemajority of cases, seri-ous neglect of the homeconditions mentioned. WEIGHT — The carryingof heavy loads is fatalto good posture in achild. Indeed, evenwith adults, so in-grained do the effectsof this become, thatcharacteristic posture,permanently fixed inbones and muscles, isan accompaniment ofmany for this the high shoulder of the postman who does not shift his load ; a similar un-evenness in the bookkeeper who stands or sits habitually with oneside turned toward his desk; or the forward and sidewise yieldingof the figure of the mother or nurse who carries in the armsmuch of the time a heavy child. It is this carrying of little. Photograph by Brown Bros. Fig. 62. — The distortion of posture that comes fromcarrying httle brothers and sisters. M l62 THE POSTURE OF SCHOOL CHILDREN brothers and sisters (Fig. 62) that, of all the forms of burdenbearing, oftenest distorts the posture of older children, thoughthe ranks of child labor are full of pitiful examples of httle shoulders over-weighted (). If childrencould all betrained to carryweighty burdenson the head,whenever prac-ticable, like thehttle ice bearerin Fig. 38, wewould probablybe a better andstronger race inmany ways, withposture as excel-lent as his. Itis not impossiblethat such amethod of carry-ing school books,at least within the school buildings, may be found feasible, and if so, it wouldremove one of the most harmful features of school hfe. The carrying of loads of books, and methods for relief, are dis-cussed with the school hygiene of postu
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