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Show H-l-1 'I 1 1'IIM I 1 II I I I I I I I 1 I I I 1 I I I I I 1 I I 1 I i I I I 1 I I I 11 1 1 I 1 I i ':: Correct Posture Important When Sitting ' H I 1 II 1 1 ! 1 I I I I H I 1 1 I ! I I 1 I 1 I I 1 I 1 1 ' 1 1 I ! 1 1 i I 1 I 1 1 1 1 I I 1 11 ! Hi 1 r --- s 3 X A v A Slouching Sitting Posture Induces Fatigue. - (Prepared by tha United States Department of Agriculture.) WNU Service. Did you ever catch yourself sitting In a slovenly way while you peeled the vegetables or finished other seated work when you felt "just dead tire"? The farm woman In the first illustration illustra-tion gives one an impression of discouragement dis-couragement and fatigue entirely out of proportion to the simple task she is engaged in. Notice how her head, shoulders, and abdomen are slouched forward, while her feet, rather tensely wound around each other, will soon add to the general weariness induced by her bad posture. Perhaps she has been "on her feet" a long time; she has flung herself down to start dinner by peeling , the potatoes, erroneously believing that she is relaxing her muscles. mus-cles. In reality, she may be giving thein some bad training. She would feel much better If she sat well back in her chair, letting the ood Silting Posture. spindles support the lower end of her spine, with her feet firmly on the floor and her shoulder blades flat. As nearly near-ly as possible her head should follow the line of her spine, so she will lean forward slightly to see what she is doing without straining. This enables her to keep her abdomen back instead of slackly forward, and results in much less fatigue than the other position. po-sition. Farm women In Hampshire county, Massachusetts, made studies of correct posture for doing various household tasks, under the direction of the home demonstration agent. The photographs wer taken by the United States Department De-partment of Agriculture. The group studied correct and incorrect posture for dishwashing, mopping floors, handling han-dling food at the oven, writing a letter let-ter and various other activities that occur very frequently In the ordinary household routine. |