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SEX IN INDUSTRY.
it is of great interest, as establishing in a marked manner the soundness of the principle put forth, that, from a rapid exercise of concentrated mental and physical energy, there occurs the most emphatic effect upon the function in consideration. Wherever young girls are called upon to engage in the full requirements of a busy office, or experience a sudden increase of labor and responsibility, the effect on the economy is immediately apparent, and especially in the direction of the menstrual result, if contemporaneous.
“ It is the common thing,” says the superintendent of a line, “for young beginners, those promoted to larger offices, and those placed suddenly upon responsible posts, to suffer a degree of physical prostration immediately thereafter; and I have noticed this to be proportionate to the age and nervous habit of the individual.” Numerous inquiries of operators, in a score of offices, have produced the unvarying answer to the question, “ How long can you stand this employ