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Title: Exercises for ladies;
Year: 1836 (1830s)
Authors: Walker, Donald. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Physical education and training
Publisher: London, T. Hurst
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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side of the fireor window, persons lean to one side, and therebydepress the shoulder of that side, and raise theopposite one. Girls, in sitting, contract a habit of balancingthe body upon one hip, and of throwing on it theweight of all the parts above it, by drawing thespine to that side, and leaning the head and neckto the other. This raises relatively the shoulderof the side on which they rest, as is seen whenthey stand erect and carefully retain the sameposition of the trunk. A deviation from this circumstance (of theshoulder of the side on which they rest beingraised in sitting) takes place in occupationswhich engage the right hand and arm. Thoughthe body rests on the left hip and is still hollowedon the right side, the right shoulder is greatlyraised, in order to facilitate its motion. IN WRITING. This takes place in wrriting, and is illustratedin Plate I. Being a frequent act, which theright arm can alone perform, and in which theright shoulder is always raised, it is one of the
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IN DRAWING. most injurious, and tends greatly to throw thelateral deviation toward the right shoulder. To remedy this tendency, it has been recom-mended to equalize the shoulders, by placing abook under the left elbow, IN DRAWING. In drawing, as in writing, both sexes are aptto acquire the habit of sitting, with an inclina-tion of the body to the left side, the left armresting on the elbow or hanging by the side, andsometimes with the palette in the left hand,whilst the right arm and shoulder are raised,for the purpose of directing the pencil, thehead being leant to the left shoulder.—(SeePlate II.) This also tends greatly to throw thelateral deviation toward the right shoulder. The able artist, Mr. Frank Howard, who hasfavoured me by making the Drawings for thiswork, and whose creative mind and ready handhave in these, as in many other matters, no rivalwith which I am acquainted, obliges me also bythe following valuable observations on the falseposition in drawing. On the position

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