How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie.

  • William Blaikie
Date:
1892
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    If they are followed up as faithfully and steadily as are the other lessons^ they cannot fail to bring decided and very welcome improvement in the shape and capacity of all the muscles^ and hence of the whole body, while it will go far toward giving to all the scholar’s an erect and healthy car- riage. These results alone would delight many a parent’s heart. The making this branch of in- struction as compulsory as any other would soon accustom the pupil to look for it as a matter of course. If it were conducted with spirit, it would always be sure to prove interesting, and very likely to send the children back to their studies much fresher and brighter for the temporary mental rest Besides these exercises, the teacher, insisting on the value of an erect position in school hours, whether the pupil be standing or sitting, and by inculcating the value of this, would soon find that these efforts were being rewarded by making many a crooked girl or boy straight, and so lessening their chance of having either delicate throats or weak lungs. Care should be taken that the school chairs have broad and comfortable seats, and that the pupil never sits on a half of the seat or on the edge of it, but far back, and on the whole of it. This apparently small matter will assist marvel- lously in forming the habit of an erect position while sitting. Some twenty years ago a Mrs.
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