The posture of school children, with its home hygiene and new efficiency methods for school training . becomes a potent cause of roundshoulders. A straight lateral line is unquestionably best for achair back; also a backward slope that leaves the adjustment ofcurves to the sitter, while affording a plane surface against whichto recline. In special chairs for use by students, typists, or pian-ists, it is possible to secure adjustable devices that place backsupports at different heights for different sitters; but the or-dinary house chair is probably best in the simple lines just de-scribed. In
The posture of school children, with its home hygiene and new efficiency methods for school training . becomes a potent cause of roundshoulders. A straight lateral line is unquestionably best for achair back; also a backward slope that leaves the adjustment ofcurves to the sitter, while affording a plane surface against whichto recline. In special chairs for use by students, typists, or pian-ists, it is possible to secure adjustable devices that place backsupports at different heights for different sitters; but the or-dinary house chair is probably best in the simple lines just de-scribed. In Plate XVII is shown an ideal nursery, in which the littleoccupants have for their meals table and-chairs that are changedin height for them as they grow. The Httle schoolgirl has the i6o THE POSTURE OF SCHOOL CHILDREN same consideration in desk and chair for her home study, andnote should be made of the low shelves for toys and books, whichaid orderliness as well as posture. Home furniture, easily adjusted as children grow, is as muchneeded as easily adjusted school furniture. While all homes may. Fig. 6i. — Poor conditions for home study or reading. not afford special furniture for the children, it is possible for everyhome to contrive, if only with boxes, the proper support for thefeet, and the right height of the chair seat in relation to theheight of tables. So long as five hours of school work are not considered enoughin one day for growing children, and one or two hours more mustbe added at home, the conditions for home study should be as HOME HYGIENE FOR POSTURE i6i free from injury as possible. These conditions include, asidefrom 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,
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