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Excerpt from The Brethren's Family Almanac, for the Year of Our Lord 1883: Being the Third After Leap Year, and Until the Fourth Day of July, the 107 of American Independence Dear children, listen While I tell you some thing which deeply concerns your welfare. The subject is the shape of your bodies. God knew the best shape. He created us upright, in his own image. None of the inferior animals walk upright. God fitted the great vital organs in your bod ies to an erect spine. Do your shoulders' ever stoop forward P If they do, so do your lungs, heart, liver and stomach fall down out of their natural laces. Of course they* can't do their work well). To show you how this is, ' I will tell you that when you bend forward you can take only about half as much air into the lungs as you can when you stand up straight. As I have said, God has so arranged the great organ in the body that they can't do their duty' well ex cept when the body is straight. Oh, how it distresses me to see the dear children, whom'i love so much, bending over their School desks, and walking with their head and. Shoulders drooping! My dear children, if you would have a strong Spine and vigorous lungs, heart, liver and stomach, you must, now while you are young, learn to walk erect. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.