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SEX IN INDUSTRY.
Is supposed to possess certain dangers of poisoning from the nature of the metal composing the types; and —
Has in the postures necessary, its sedentary ! character, and the heat at which “ composing-
rooms ” are unavoidably kept, its particular non-hygienic conditions.
It will readily be seen, that a closely attentive activity must he exercised to “follow copy,” and accomplish a paying amount of work with sufficient correctness to satisfy em- j ployers. There can, of course, in this labor,
l be no distracting influences; for to “set”
i type with a remunerative degree of rapidity
and correctness (and most type-setters are | required to “correct” their own “proofs,”
j or errors), the eye must take in the words
j of the copy, and their relations to each other,
I their punctuation and character (whether
Italics or other type), and various other details known only to the guild; must trans- I mit the intelligence absorbed by the eye to
i the hand, and direct it with celerity to that
particular one of the compartments in a type
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