CARE AS TO CARRIAGE.

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 3, 15 April 1893, Page 12

CARE AS TO CARRIAGE.

Round shoulders mean weak lungs and liability to consumption, especially to those confined indoors; square shoulders mean a deep chest and plenty of breathing capacity, strength, and long life. Sit and walk erect, and when in bed lie straight. Usually onethird or more of life is spent in bed, and if a habit be formed whereby the chest is thrown forward and the shoulders back much, is gained. Especially should children be trained in this essential. Place them straight, and when they cramp the lungs and bowels together change- them again. Adults who find difficulty in maintaining a proper position when asleep should lie on the side with elbows elevated and head thrown back', making more direct the passage of air to the lungs. Then raise the uppermost arm level with the shoulder and support it there by the hand of the other arm placed like a pillar at the elbow. Thus the arms are half folded. Practise when dressed by grasping both arms at once just,above the elbow. This position holds the covering from the chest where to invalids it' is oppressive, and prevents that feeling of _ helplessness so * often the direct cause of bad dreams.—Experience. j|g