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THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY SUPPLEMENT, AUGUST 16, 1940-

Are You Sitting Pretty?

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in fron

your right thumb on Then do the

In an excellent little book on to sit as you should-in the of it should not cave posture written by Miss Janet fice or at home, to encourage But be careful not to push it!

It should hang Lane, girls who work in offices good posture: and a pretty figure. out either. are cautioned about their sitting Choose a hard, straight chair just over your hips. One way posture.

that is the right height for your to check up on It is to put the feet to rest comfortably on the middle finger of your right hand "Check up on yourself to see floor. Sit on the chair. Slip your on the crest of

the whether you are the kind of sit hands under you: from each side,hip, and ter who sits twice or the kind who until you feel two knob-like the lowest rib, never really sits at all! The for-bones. Those are your sitting same with your left Anger and mer sits once when she first hits bones and you should balance thumb on the the chair seat, and again when squarely on them. Take your ribs should be hanging down so she collapses at the waist and the hands out from under you and they could almost be tucked in bulge of her back thumps the wriggle around a little until you chair back. The latter is the feel that you are resting firmly

How do you sit, my beauty ?

tense, nervous person who per-, on those sitting

bones. When ches on the ragged edge of noth-you are, the back of your hips ing and holds herself up by will be a straight line perpendi- the shoulders to take off at a cular to the chair seat. Remem- minute's notice!" Which are you?

CORRECT YOUR SITTING

POSTURE

ber to keep your buttocks under you as padding for your sitting] bones.

Miss Lane then tells you howlover your hips.

your hips.

"Then look

left side. Your

straight ahead of you and get your head centred over your hips and chest. If you carr't tell where your head belongs,| balance a fairly heavy book on it and try to push the book up to- ward the ceiling. That gets your chin in where It should be and straightens out your neck into a nice firm column. Once you have the feeling of that true head bal- ance you'll carry your crown as if it were a royal lady."

"You may test yourself both for, your seating base and for your upper balance by raising up each knee in turn a few inches from the chair. If you are right you can do this without shifting your weight from one sitting bone to the other and without letting any part of your body slip out of line."

PREVENTS ACHES

This perfect sitting position is a good thing to practice for it will prevent those neck and backt pains from which so many desk girls suffer. It also will prevent

"Now get your chest balanced that old bug-a-boo a dowager's Remember that hump from forming, and it helps to-keep-the tummy firm and flat- VANDULAQUE “İt you have trouble keeping

Your Last Opportunity

this sitting balance," Miss Lane advises, "try taking a deep easy breath that works the muscles across the back of your hips, and see if that doesn't help."

One of the largest crowds of the season attended the needle-ball' game between H&B. and the Mindanao" for the league title on Saturday. After six scoreless Innings during which both sides were right on their toes, the game was called in the seventh.

Here are Captain McGlynn, of the U.S.S. Mindanao, and Mr. McGlynn; at Saturday's, ball game, which was called in the seventh with the score ́0-0.

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Another section of the crowd at the ball game.

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