The Washington herald., 1915-04-18
BY WINIFRED VAN DUZER.


tural idiosyncrasies of the let
Ter 6. We feed our tortured frames into
the laws of steel straitjackets, cranlhg
upward our neCks meanwhile to appear
long and thin. after the manner OF oaoy
ribbon, serpentine.
We cultivate WannesS or attitude
and a heaviness of eye, and we speak
YEARLY, hoping in our heart to dihuse
rakish and devilish KNOXVILLE air,
thereby dragging forth envy and admira-
ton. Or we crinkle into the frilly boun-
DIARIES of the ingenue, and smile chirp-
inglv and speak effervescingly, mindful
of carbonated water bubblng through
the siphon, hoping to mask age with the
vagaries of youth.
Morning, noon and night we pose,
mentally and physically. It's the year
and the day of poses. But there is hope
While there is life, as the old Doc says,
there is hope.
For instance, bookkeepers, who other
wise would remain boOkkeepers all their
lives. because they have got into the
mental and physical letter ~" attitude
of humping over high desks, may take
heart. All they must do is to unfold
their spines and so take the first step
toward the firm presidents job. The
professional hobo has only to lift his
chin and lose the shuttle from his feet
and he's on the way to becoming rep
utable citizen.
It's all in the pose, say members or
the American Posture League, which has
jumped into the country's civic life by
way of New York, where it held its first
banquet recently and planned a cam
paign for the erect shoulder attitude.
Miss Jessie H. Bancroft. of Brooklyn, is
president of the league. which is made
DIP OF about seventy-ive physicians and
child hygiene experts, all of whom con-
tend that the general physical and men
tai health depends, chiefly, on the man
ner of sitting. standing and walking.
Other officers of the league are DR..
Frederick r. Green and DR.. Joel f. Gold
thwait, vice presidents; Cornelius 8.
Loder. treasurer; DR.. Henry Ling Taylor,
secretary Committees have been APP
pointed on shoes, chairs, street car seats
and clothes. Already they have gathered
traCings of average feet from all parts
of the country; drawn Up plans of hy-
sienic chairs to submit to Grand Rapids
furniture manufacturers, and designed
scientifically correct seats for the Brook
lyu Rapid Transit COmpanys new sub
way cars.
All that the league explains seems
extremely logical when the underlying
causes are Investigated. large part Of
the dent a person makes in the affairs
of life. say members, is due to his mental
attitude, and in the same way his mental
attitude Is affected by his posture. Allow
him to pose as a hobo and subconsciously
he adopts the shiftleSsness of hobo.
Incorrect postures cause crooked bodies,
and crooked bodies are conducive to
crooked minds and one can figure out
for oneself where crooked minds will
bring one.
Aside from the pecun'ary advantages
TO be derived from practice of the new
theory, there is said to be tremendous
increase in the joy of living resultant,
and it is for this that We should be most
thankful to the scientists who have dis
covered the cause of our troubled lives.
Things will be dffferent-all different
when the slogan IS. U. S." meaning
"stand up straight" becomes household
word. In addition to its hygienic value
1t ought TO promote domestic peace
and felicity and prevent divorce, oo-
Grating something as the s"fety lid
that blows of when the gentle boiler
lets CO. It's about the tactfulest
thing a man can say. for instance.
when his wife waits for the hat
money he spent at poker the night
before. meditative IS. U. s.
offered In place OF explanation
might soothe her anxiety and spoil
her hat ambitions
Fact is the little hint might cover
and correct a multitude of petty
annoyanees and disposition destroy
- that begin pouring round one Ct