Show mil ill ill correct act posture important when sitting i t T t lt 11 1 1 au 4 kick arlew j q A va M tx I 1 A slouching sitting posture indu induces es fatigue f good sitting posture prepared by the united states department of 0 agriculture service Serl co did you yon ever catch yourself sitting la in a slovenly way while you peeled the vegetables or finished other seated work when you frit felt just dead tire the farm woman in the first illustration gives one an impression of dis coura gement and fatigue entirely out of proportion to the simple task she Is engaged in notice liow low tier her licad head shoulders find and abdomen are slouched forward while tier her feet rather tensely wound around ench each other will soon add to the general weariness induced by her had bad posture perhaps ig she ha has been on tier feet fed a long time she has ilung flung herself town down to start dinner fly by peeling the potatoes erroneously believing that she Is relaxing her muscles in reality she may be giving them some bad training she would feel much better it if slie she sat gat well bark back in tier lier chair letting tile the spindles support the lower end of her spine with her feet firmly on the floor and her shoulder blades flat As nearly as possible her head should follow the line of her spine so she will lean forwald slightly to see what she 11 Is doing without straining this enables enable her to keep tier her abdomen back instead of slackly forward and results in much less fatigue than the other position form farm women in hampshire county massachusetts made studies ot of correct posture for doing various household tasks under tile the direction of the home demonstration agent the photographs taken by the united states department part ment of agriculture Agil culture the group studied correct and incorrect posture for or dishwashing ashing mopping floors handling food foed at the oven oen writing a letter and various other activities that occur very frequently in the ordinary household routine |