ADVICE TO GIRLS.

Bush Advocate, Volume XVI, Issue 582, 5 December 1904, Page 2

ADVICE TO GIRLS.

Many growing girls, especially those tall for their age, are inclined to stoop, and well-meaning persons often advocate the use of braces or shoulder straps as a means of correcting the tendency. The braces may force an upright carriage, but they do not give the wearer any means of maintaining it, since they prevent the exercise of those muscles which should be trained to produce an erect figure. Any exercise, which strengthens the muscles of the back aiid shoulders will aid in correcting this defect and without a doubt a flat, rather hard bed, with low pillows, is preferable r f 05 growing children. A stooping awkward walk detracts very much from the appearance, and there is every reason to avoid it, apart frpm the bad effect it exercises on the physical conditions.