The posture of school children, with its home hygiene and new efficiency methods for school training . -jury, telling on efficiency in all other activities, might be avoidedby care for general habits of posture. In Fig. 64 is shown the position induced by sitting at a pianowithout support for the feet — something required of almostevery child whose piano instruction begins at an early rounded back, collapsed chest, forward shoulders, and pro-truding head are as surely induced through sitting in this way ata piano, as at the dining table or in school or church. PlateXVI shows the feet s
The posture of school children, with its home hygiene and new efficiency methods for school training . -jury, telling on efficiency in all other activities, might be avoidedby care for general habits of posture. In Fig. 64 is shown the position induced by sitting at a pianowithout support for the feet — something required of almostevery child whose piano instruction begins at an early rounded back, collapsed chest, forward shoulders, and pro-truding head are as surely induced through sitting in this way ata piano, as at the dining table or in school or church. PlateXVI shows the feet supported by a little footstool, and the re-lief is apparent throughout the entire tlgure. Violin practice is a fertile cause of lateral curvature of the 164 THE POSTURE OF SCHOOL CHILDREN spine, and while the attitude that leads to it may not be whollydone away with in playing that instrument, every lesson or periodof practice should be followed, or even interrupted, by exer-cises that bend the trunk and head in the opposite direction,or strengthen on both sides the muscles that are concerned in. Fig. 64. — Incorrect position at the piano without support for the feet. symmetrical posture. The table of exercises already given issuitable for this, with especial emphasis on number four whenbending to the right side, adding to the trunk movement avertical stretching of the left arm, to be maintained duringthe bending.
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