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cations. I could not have continued as long a§ I have, if it had not been that I have been changed about in small offices, and have been part of the time in charge of rooms.”
Another said, —
“ Our girls all come to us looking bright, fresh, and ruddy ; but it is not long before they lose color, and strength seems to go with it. While I think it a nice occupation, and better than standing in stores or working in mills, it would be much better if vacations could be better arranged, and the confinement lessened.”
Miss-, for several years in charge of •
the female department of one of the largest offices in the country, testified, —
1 ‘ One year is as long as one can work in a busy office without a good vacation. The confined position, constipation, heat, and dizzy headache, I think, are the most noticeable troubles of ‘ lady operators ’ who are ‘ grown up. ’ The hours are too long for such strained employment. From eight, a.m. , to six, p.m. , with only an hour for dinner, makes too long a day for the kind of work. I am sorry to say some of our girls eat their lunch in the room, not going out at all. A wo-
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