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Show 5XMX0KKXOCK0 Correct Posture Is Important J CKooK0KOCK0K (Prepared by the Doited States Department of Agriculture.) WNU Service, While the lady in the picture suggests sug-gests rather the old verse "Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time Is still a-flying " a home gardener examining ex-amining shrubs for insect pests one Is struck Immediately by tier beautiful carriage. Her-posture is the ideal, easy standing stand-ing position for which we should all its v if i Ideal Standing Posture. strive. It is necessary for her to lean forward slightly to examine her rambler ram-bler roses, but In doing so she has kept her back flat and straight, her I head, shoulders and hips in line with her ankles, and she uses her feet properly to balance herself. The picture is from a series of charts on good posture prepared by the extension service of the L'nited States Department of Agriculture. These talks on posture include advice ad-vice on the proper position for all sorts of home activities, both outdoors out-doors and Indoors. The chartj Indicate Indi-cate by analogy with indoor ,'tasks, that for garden work, too, such as digging, weeding, planting, and Wsks that require stooping, it is possible to carry on the job and at the same tliie avert the fatigue that comes from bad position maintained for long stretches. Work close to the ground, for example, can be done on a kneeling kneel-ing pad, with the back straight and the shoulders flat; hoeing and raking can be done like mopping or sweeping, sweep-ing, keeping the abdomen and hips in the correct position and the feet squarely on the ground. Pruning, watering wa-tering and gathering garden product are, similarly, much less fatiguing 1 good posture is maintained while car rying them on. |