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Show il!IIil:i'illlli;inillllllllllllllllllllllllll!ll I THE GIRL ON THE JOB I zz How to Succeed How to Get E 5 Ahead How to Make Oood E 1 By JESSIE ROBERTS f Tiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiimiiiiiiimiiimiiiimiiiiiu JOB AND YOUR HEALTH 13 A WOMAN as strong as a man? Given the sme stature and weight, can she do equally hard work and not suffer for It? Among many other matters that the war proved or disproved, this seems also to be settled and settled In the negative. She can't ! AYoinan can do the same work, given a like training. But she breaks down under It where the man remains uninjured. un-injured. In France and England women for five years did the work of men. They have not stood up under the strain as men do. In England, physicians' reports re-ports show that of two thousand five hundred women examined In one Industry, In-dustry, 42 per cent were found to be suffering from severe physical exhaustion exhaus-tion or actual ill health, brought on by overwork. Yet men stood up under the same work without difficulty. We are none of us likely to go into munition factories or to undertake heavy labor. But there is more In this than the fact (hat a woman ought not to attempt such feats. A girl who is looking about for a job ought to think of it in regard to herself In regard to her health. The nervous and high-strung girl should not take up telephoning, for Instance, nor should she go into a large and noisy office. She won't stand the strain. A girl I knew who made a success of a small tea and lunch room got ambitious and took the whole house. She rented rooms and served a dinner as well as breakfast and lunch. She gave good meals and good service, had a large force of assistants to manage, and in six months she broke down and had to go to a sanitarium. What's the use? Your health is priceless. And once shaken, it Isn't easy to get into good shape again. Look at your health as part of your capital, and conserve it. Never let your job borrow from that capital. There are times when you cannot control the thing, and when you do you must do the best you can and hope to get through with it. But most of us are Just careless. It doesn't pay. (Copyright.) j O |