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in a busy office ? ” — “ Not over a year, without a good vacation of at least a month.” Indeed, that this is so, the managers of the principal lines seem to recognize, inasmuch as a month’s vacation is allowed their “ operators ” in each year; though it is to be greatly regretted, that, even for sickness, they will make no further allowance, compelling the operator to resign if even a day or two more, however imperatively demanded by illness, is taken.
On being interrogated as to the special causes and effects of prostration in telegraph- offices, the first reply of nearly all young “ lady operators,” perhaps not unnaturally, is to the effect, that the close confinement, over-lieat of rooms, and position, are principally operative; but more direct inquiry, calling out the more active and self-examining thought, invariably produces the reply, that the “ nervous debility,” “ cold feet and hot head,” and dizzy headache, make up a good part of the results; while particular inquiry, in a large proportion of cases, estab-