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Show A NEW SCHOOL DESK. Provides Support for the Child's Back, Where It Is Meit Needed. In the belief that proper seating facllltlea play an Important art In the welfare ot school children Oeorge W ISiler supervisor of physical training and Director of Hchools Charles f)rr worked until they bale perfected what tbey bel.eo I the beat seat and desk In the country, any the Cleveland Plain Dealer The seat I constructed according to Killer's own plan and I based upon an exhniMllte set of measurement made l him last year In the schools It provide support for the child a back, where It Is most needed, at the baan of the spinal column and the small of the back Another strong point Is that the sent proper Is pitched backward mil) slightly keeping the body at a restful nngle lloth seat and desk ure adjustable The new desks are being Installed In all thn new buildings and grow la fal or wherever put Until the perfection of Killer's Improved Im-proved sent there were two forms of desk used In tho schools The first was tha old fashioned desk, not ad JustaUe at all, nnd made In unvarying unvary-ing site for the different grades It presupposed that fill children In tho lame grade would lie of a site. Then came the so called "liver pad" desk Thn back of Ihe scat In this style of desk consisted of a single concavo rest, to he placed at that point where the child's back most needed support This vti faulty In two respects In the first placo It wns narrow and hold thn child's body In n vise-like grip and In the second II gave supiwrt nt only ono point, whereas where-as tho splno requires aupioit at several sev-eral points |