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Show Do You Sit or Recline? (New York Press.) Nothing is more inclined to cause drowsiness or laziness than leaning in comfort against the back of a chair. Very few people "sit." The vast majority ma-jority recline. Their bodies tuoch the chair all the way from the shoulder blades down to the back of the knee, a stretch of about one yard. Many muscles and nerves are benumbed by compression and some 350 square inches of skin is rendered inactive. The spine becomes weakened by artificial arti-ficial support. An excellent preventative of this habit of repose was designed by a writer, one who had suffered from inertia a number of years. His backbone was almost devoid of energy from the fourth clavicle down to the tip of the coccyx, just from half reclining re-clining in the chair in which he worked. One writer, resolved to rid himself of the habit of leaning on his spine nearly all of his working day, hung on the back of his chair a strip of thick leather a foot wide, through which he stuck a thousand pins, more or less, and the points of these kept him very' much awake . and most of the time erect. His health has improved. |