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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 8, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 10.

SIT UP.

If most of us could see ourselves as others see us when we sit—"down" or "up" and generally "down" hard upon our spinal columns—we should wish to join a school of health immediately to learn how to make ourselves more graceful objects. But, altho incorrect attitudes are bad enough from the standpoint of beauty, they are even worse from the standpoint of health.

The writer once saw a tall, thin woman sitting at a table eating her dinner, whose body was curved forward to such an extent that the food she swallowed must have been obliged to travel almost in a semicircle to reach her stomach. Nature does her best to accommodate herself to all kinds of deformities and unnatural positions, but it is not reasonable to suppose that she can do her work as well when the body is out of shape as when it conforms to her original plan.—Good Health.