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Show The Cost of Tleing Shoestrings. ' One of the manag ers of a big eastern knitting mill has made a calculation that the shoestrings of a working girl will oome untied on the average three times per diem, and that a girl will lose about 50 seconds every time she stoops to retie them. Most of the employes have two feet, so this entails a loss of 300 seconds every day for each girl. There are about 400 girls employed in this factory, and therefore the' gentleman finds that 43,-800,000 43,-800,000 seconds aro wssted in the course of a year, which time, at the average '. rate of wages, is worth $943.17$. Orders have accordingly been issued that girls must wear only buttoned shoes or congress con-gress gaiters under penalty of discharge -Detroit Tribune. |