NEWS FOR
Business Girls
Herious-minded among you to solve
TERE are two problems in business life for the.
One comes from a retired business woman who is find- ing her retirement lonely antl irksome. The other is from a married woman who is frightened at the prospect of so many girls working in offices and ignoring the healthy calls of domesticity.
Too much
Leisure
THE first bad worked at her juls for forty-six years
her hands,
and Jovel
every day of it. Now he is bored. She does not like domest work or needlework, and she, is thuling me hangs heavily on
This problem in one that our men colleagues have been facing for a lung 1me who to do with their hyeg when they retire from active mental work. Now business women are beginning to Experience the same difficulty. If you have worked with your brain all your life you will not be able to give it tip, and semain contented.
The diffulty is entering into the liver of younger business girl who marry. They find that housewifery, especially in Hongkong, does not occupy their braids sufficiently after the first novelty has work off.
Home
THE
versus
Office
as yet receive much HE recond problem is one which does Bul
attention in this Colony, Recently has been taken up in Ger many, where girls me crouraged to regned their homes as their career.
for women. Sedentary life in extremely bad
Fortunately, the harm It does is partially offset by the modern urge towards beauty; the offer worker in paying mor attention every year in keeping her body in perfect condition.
Now and interesting opening for women should be recorded immediately they are available; head mistresses of girls' schools should be given particu lars of them every half-year, Business girls waste much time and happiness in monotonous jobs without realising the possibilities of more interesting
Cleaner Typewriters
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JERE is a new way to keep your typewriter keys clean. A small hand roller with plastic material 4 run over the keys each morn- ing. The dirt adheres to it and comes away from the keys leaving them spotless,
The sapie roller will clean stamp pads effectually. Cost is 5 m. and refills of plustle materini 15. Half &
dozen of these rollers werk stock quite a large office.
To save
your
Clothes
JAKAR
1.
MELPAY
Protect your Clothes
Here is an attractive overall to keep your dresses clean when you are in the office. It buttons all the way up the side, so' can be shipped on easily over anything.
You can make it from three yards of mate- rial, cut out in one piece (sleeves separate).
2.
Questions
Housewives
for
Of what is the best pastry board made?
How do you deal with a larder, that in inclined to be damp?.
3. What is a vegetable charlotte, and
how would you make it?
Name the piece of furniture which like human beings, is subject to chills.
5. What is the marmalade maker's best friend and where do you find it?
6. Which is the best way to ronst
potatoes?
Here are the answers:
J. The best pastry "board" is a slab of marble.
This keeps the pastry cool and is Prry rasp to clean, Place a jar of lime in our larder and it well deep the'air sweet and dr. 3. A vegetable charlatte la u summery disn composed of envions vegetables...
Cens and cut into regular sizes potat des, carrots, artlehiakes, cauliflower, ceięry or any regría. bles in seeron. Boil them in some good stuck to which a cup of milk has been added, Strals
and cool. Turn into a buttered fireproof dish cover penerously with grated cheese and little knobs of butter, sprinkle with bread- crumbs and bake until 6 golden bror, A plan will take cold, che dieterkurate f stands, in a draught. So far, as possible i shonk be kept in a warm, epen temperature,
A cutting machine, This may be re- guiated to slice your oranges thickly or thinly and it may be hired by the day from tron monger or grocer, 5, Leane the peeled pota- toes in hot water for a quarter of an hour before roasting them This method improves the flavour and lessens the time required for roasting by one half.
Foundation for an
O
NE of the most remarkable things in modern times is the increased care and. interest taken in the physical education and development of the young. Future generations will reap the benefit of all this attention; no longer will middle age be associated with an increase in weight and a lack of shape in the figure.
GOOD idea for business girls who find that their dresses lose their shape in the office is to have two shirt parts made to every top. For weekday dressen, wear one at the office while sitting all day--the otherous you can button on for outdoor wear. if you make your offee dresses yourself, the extra expense will not be severe.
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It is true. of course, that when exercise ja carried to excess there appears to be an enorm- amount of fat laid down directly vigorous life ceases. But for the ordinary person who has been trained from infancy to take a reason. able amount of exercise the habit is bound to persist in later life, so that the fifties
not mean high blood press sure, hardened actories and un- due increase in weight.
War
The British Medical Association has mande a report on physical education which should have a tremendous in- fluence on the arrangement of our schools and public places for gymnasia
and ganes generally,
The report says that the elemen- tary schools have not been given sufficient facilities for allowing the children plenty of flight and air and exercise. In the public open-air
By
A 1
Nation
DR. MARY
ANTHONY
shine in which they lived was both food and drink.
In Switzerland, in the clear moan- in air, where the sun's rays come a clear, unsullied atmos-
schools, on the other hand, games that unf children do not take part through
il athletler are pushed to such an in-games which would be unsuitable phere. tuberculosis and other pul extent that the correct musenlar for their strength and that under-monary diseases clear up rapidly. development of the boy may be nourished children should get extrn Children and adults who go to Leysin neglected, and they urge more gym. food to enable them to reap the bene and other health resorts in Switzer- land looking quite thin and wasted nasium work.
fit of regular exercises,
become bright-eyed, brown Though much has been done in soon They suggest that physical eduen tion in schools should be considered recent years to improve the condi- skinned and fit. Germs cannot live under three main headings: Formal tions of the workers there are still or flourish in pure air, and if many Training. Recreative Training, and many trades where light and air and diseases which mean a lifetime of Instruction in Hygiene. With regard ventilation are all inadequate. Modern invalidism in this country were trent. to the universities, the committee factories and workshops are designed et early enough. much pain and says that physical education is usually to give the maximum of light and suffering would be spared.
A: some of the day nurseries on conspicuons by its absener in these air, rest roots are provided and the centres of higher learning. Une in recreative side of the workers' life is
for portant paint which is stressed is the not forgotten. But in many small the nutskirts of Swiss towns which elate relationship between wind and firms some improvement is urgently visited some years ago the babies
the Invatory accommoda- and toddlers were remarkable body, so that the modern system of necessary;
hafninu months was almost equal in there education which traing the mind and tion is frequently both insuflicient their health and strength. A haby neglects the body is obvimely wrong, and inesavrulent:
The Central Council of Roerentive rest room where a girl may lie down right and vigour to a ehtikl double Physical Training should unite itself for an hour or two or where a ense his age brought up in a smoky fi to the Board of Education and the of fastness may be given a chance dustrial town.
Societies who have done to rest before undertaking the journey so much to encourage individual t- to home or hospital.
Voluntary
118.
Their report goes on to state that the best way of promoting health and physique througth physical recreation
on a national scale is by co-ordinated ONE
is
In England pioneers have utilised the sunshine, fresh air and open surroundings to give many tubercular men and women a new lease of life. Some of these colonies are almost self-supporting, but apart from that, NE factor of tremendous The value of such work both for artion planned and carried out by
importance for the main prevention and cure of one of our
be over health is sun-bathing. modern scourges cannot some central authority which draws tenance of
experience together existing
and Rickets was known abroad as the estimated.
01 their knowledge (such as is possessed by "English disease," and though it has
Mothers should insist
the maximum those bodies just mentioned) into a become far less frequent, there are common pool.
still too many cases of mild rickets children obtaining to be seen at Home. Years ago ob- amount of fresh air and exercise both that Talian at school and at home. Houres, servers pointed
factories and workshops children, who were poorly clad, and schools, school who probably got less to eat than should all be planned to give plenty regard to children, regular medical English children, never suffered from of Nature's gifts of sunlight and air
should be provided 40 rickets. Obviously the brilliant sun to their inhabitants.
WITH
supervision
out
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