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man can do as much as a man in this business, and do it as well, but does not get the same pay for it. A skilful ‘ lady operator’ here 'will sometimes have from two hundred to two hundred and thirty messages a day ; hut she could not stand that rate more than a month. Most of our chief-office ‘ lady operators ’ are from twenty-three to twenty-four years old: our youngest is twenty-three. They generally begin to learn from sixteen to eighteen years of age, and the youngest, of course, feel it most. I think, that, with those of our age, the chief menstrual trouble is with its occurring too often.”
An inquiry of those among female operators who more properly came within the designation of “ forming ” has developed some curious and interesting results.
Miss C., a “ lady operator ” nineteen years of age, located at an office in a quiet town on one of our railroad hues, owing to an accident on the line, had her office suddenly besieged for an entire day and into the night, hy an unprecedented business, taxing her to the utmost. It occurred just at a “ peculiar period: ” a complete suppression resulted, and a general prostration ensued, from which