BUSINESS WOMAN’S LUNCH HOUR

Shannon News, 7 December 1928, Page 3

BUSINESS WOMAN’S LUNCH HOUR

JBecent statistics tell us that sickness among business girls costs the colossal sum of fifty million pounds' in wages lost every year, writes a London physician.

Most of the illness is doubtless due to nerve strain; but there is much preventable sickness due to common or garden “indigestion,” leading eventually to a breakdown in health.

Think how a typist sits all day, usually crouched over her machine, her work brought to her, every muscle set and mind keyed up, in an ill-ventilated atmosphere. When the welcome break for lunch arrives does” she throw, open the windows and take one long luxurious “stretch” and sevierai deep breaths, as she should, before hurrying off?

- & short, brisk walk should be necessary to ijpach the usual lunching place, and the food chosen should be vfcry light, avoiding if possible, anything very hot or irritating, because scalding tea, coffee, and soup are naturally bad for the sensitive lining of one’s stomach. Tea or coffee should be freshly made and weak, and to them should be added plenty of milk to precipitate the harmful tannic ajjid. The food should be well chewed and eaten slowly, tmd books or newspapers should not b-. read during the process;