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Show 1 ""1 Nino-tenths of all thr- J . 7 rt 17 1 women of . the world sav that t vSLjj j Heavy Ivi&nurii Labor u.ev .io too much hard work. 1 Rarely Kiib Women TTlyt!''f j ' J but wnat is hard work for j CyMI. SAHARA CALPIN one is ea6y for anotber. It ' . I depends greaty on the phys ical condition of the person, her training and experience. The great majority of working women, high up or low down on the ladder of fortune, choose their work, for no woman is drafted into any special line of service. Iter choice, of course, is limited by her education, her ambition t:nd her good sense. Her strength and ability should determine deter-mine the severity of the labor. No employer should be allowed to give a woman work who is physically unable to perform it. The question would seem to indicate those who do manual labor in manufactories of various kinds. With all the careful restrictions which the laws and the labor organizations place about the world's workers it would seem that none of thcin need injure themselves. In the days of our grandmothers the question of a woman working too hard scarcely entered the mind of any human being, yet the mothers of large families with small means probably worked harder and for longer hours than the factory girl of today. The woman of the olden times worked in unheated homes, except for the kitchen fire, her lights were of only one candle power and her hours were from sunrise until after the children's bedtime, when she did up the odd household matters. Women who do manual labor, as a rule, are not interested in their work; it is a sort of "watch-the-clock" duty. .Young women, especially, look upon the'r daily routine as a grind, an injustice, and think only of the closing hour, when they can go to some hall of amusement, staying late inlo the night, using up all their reserve energy and making them-Eelves them-Eelves unfit for the next day's duties, and when illness follows the blame is often placed on overwork and not on careless overplay. Wqmcn by the state law are not allowed to work in establishments more than fift3'-four hours a week, but tltis is not nearly as long as the same number of housewives in moderate circumstances are obliged to keep ' at the round of household affairs. The latter does not even have her noon hour without interruptions and her day's work is not completed at the strdce of six. Women in manufactures choose to go there for various reasons, and though the work may be hard, the buildings not pleasing, yet they have no business care at the end of the day, and as a rule are not injured physically phys-ically by what they do. Of course exceptions prove the rule and a small proportion of women are offered work suitable only for men because they will do it for less pay, and necessity may occasionally force them to . take such places. I One reason why women are placed in such seemingly unfit working conditions is that they come from foreign countries, where the poorer classes are used to manual labor of the most trying kind, and when they seek for a means of livelihood in the new country the pay offered is so j much greater than that which they received previously they do not ques- : tion conditions, but eagerly accept them. Doubtless some women are : doing work which is too hard for them, hut they are reluctant to give it up. Some women are able to do heavier work than some men, yet we do not hear much about men working too hard. Work, even heavy manual labor, rarely kills, but worry, improper food and careless regard of health often lead to lingering illness and death, j If the laws wo already have on our statute books were rightly enforced (J we should hear little complaint of f j adriVLa V CcgjCUS' overwork. , |