PLEA FOR IMPROVED SCHOOL

Grey River Argus, 22 December 1893, Page 3

PLEA FOR IMPROVED SCHOOL

SEATS

There is an important artie'e in the Humanitarian for September by the Rev J. Rice-Byrne on the effects of Posture of School Children." What are the defects In the present arrangements ? There is no back to the seat, or not a Buifcable back. The seat itself is narrow, perbapi, and flit. It is too high or too low, *oo near or too far off. There is nothing to rest the f*ot upon, so that they either dangle, or are twisted round each other, or round the legs of the chair, or ara pul here ?.r there or anywhete. The new arrangements mast remedy »ll these dofecs. 1 There musb be a back, ard a soluble one— suitable, that i 3, for stcdy (*nd for different kinds of study, reading, writing, drawing, needlework), and for ieat, when the student is tired. 2 The seat must be tolerably deep (one : secret of comfort hi a seat) and slightly hollowed out ; a saddle-shap9, I believe, is the beet. Ie must be adjustable to the height and occupation of the eeholar. 3 The desk or table. «♦ The edge of the table" (Mr Le'breich says) '• is always to be perpendicular to that of the seat," and it ahould have an inclination for reading of about 40 degrees, for writing 20 degrees." The desk ahouP be adjustable, acenrding t, 0 height and occupation--4 There should be a footrest, which also should be movable like everything else.