s possible--your back, too, is not the only sufferer;
your digestive organs are all cruelly cramped--all the delicate
machinery, by the aid of which occur the changes of the food in its
conversion to the different bodily tissues, is impeded in its action, is
hemmed in, is fretted. Instead of a free circulation, and an unimpeded
course between all the channels of communication, the functions of
digestion are carried on with difficulty, and the stooping pose is the
cause of many other complications into which we have not space to enter
here.

We have said that exercise is necessary. A great part of that is indeed
gained by the walk to and from business. But that is not sufficient.
Indeed, we do not consider that walking exercise, exclusive of any
other, is sufficient to keep the body in health; but in the instance we
are imagining it is especially insufficient. The body ill brooks being
kept in one posture for any length of time; and during sedentary
occupation some of the muscles are maintained in a state of extension,
whilst others are as unduly kept in a state of relaxation. These
relative conditions, kept up as they are for hours and hours, cannot
fail to have their marked results on the health of our girl. If she were
at home, she would throw her work aside, get up and walk about a little,
or run upstairs to stretch out her limbs; but in business this is not to
be thought of; so she must bear it as best she can. Not so, say we.
There is even here a remedy--even here a way of procuring an immense
amount of relief. Our only fear for its adoption, however, rests in its
extreme simplicity. But when our girl thinks a little more she will
learn that all really great and effective things are simple, and that it
is only their useless wrappings that blind people to their real simple
grandeur. We shall give O. S. G. our remedy in its modest garb of
truthfulness, and she will, we think, not reject it. We would advise
her, then, three or four times during the day, to stand upright by her
chair--she need not even move from her place--throw her shoulders back,
stretch her head up, expand her chest, and arch the spine well inwards,
remaining in that position for at least half a minute. This will
entirely change the posture of all the muscles, those which before were
expanded being now contracted, and _vice versa_. She will then send her
arms straight up over her head, and either bring them down from there
like a wheel, or, if she h