The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-24
How a Working Girl Can Have a
Good Figure.

How a Working Girl Can Have a
Good Figure.
(Marian Martineau in Chicago Tri-
bune)
There lives scarcely a woman who
is not working woman"
If she be society queen she is worn
out with her engagements; if a bust
ness woman she is tired to the bone
from flag. If working girl she is
worn out not so much with mental
work as with real bodily fatigue.
All can take time to recuDerate eX-
cept the working girl. And it is the
working girl, Of all women, who most
desires and requires to look nice.
The working girl expects to marry
some day, and for this she wants to
Keep her loneliness. She must toll.
meanwhile and for this she wishes to
preserve her health. She. whether
working or at home, must be active,
and for this she must maintain the
inquire with which she grew to woman
hood. The minute she loses that youth
full figure and gets either a little too
fat or little too thin, at that moment
she ceases to be useful.
The too thin woman is delicate: the
TOO tat woman is bulky. Neither can
do the days work properly.
The working girl suffers most of all
from fatigue. This is not always from
overwork, for an employer has a right
to ask certain duties of his clerks 1t
is more from the fact that a certain
set Of muscles are used and no others.
This makes them always sore and
tired. and the day is a drag and the
night no better.
The working girl can begin upon the
more comfortable existence by chang
ing her shoes every day of her life
Shoe leather is cheap, and she can just
as well have three pairs of boots as
one. Now. if she will alternate these.
wearing each pair for two days out of
the six, then she will be pretty sure OF
comfortable feet
Though this is not a talk upon feet
il can be remarked that the short shoe
Is never good and if pointed toes are
worn they should be long.
In case of a bunion. let the working
girl at once see that the joint is cured
This can only be done by correct mas
sage. A bunion joint is caused by the
dislocation of the joint of the toe. This
must be gently lifted in place and
pad must be placed between the toes
TO hold the joint where it should be.
This will instantly cure bunion joint.
But at the first pressure upon the tip
OF the toe the joint viii again be dis
located.
Where the skin has become sore and
an abscess has formed it will take a
little longer. But all bunion joints are
durable. They are dislOcations and |
must be treated IS such.
The tired working woman must wear /
a different set of coTsets fer at least /
two days Of the week, and it would be I
well If she could wear a different gown, !
for the bands of the skirt press into /
the ribs and if the pressure can be !
changed one VIII not start out in the 1
morning SO tired.
The working woman must also vary /
her food. She should never eat any !
thing which she does not relish. The /
continually reYolts against I'M
welcome food, and if the working girl |
does not like her rations she may be !
sure that they viii do her no good. !
Often they will give her indigestion.
A certain tired out school teacher
craved pie for breakfast. She was not |
& New Englander from the great pie
belt, but a woman who had always
lived IN the city. She was tired and
pcevish, and she wanted pie instead of
and pie instead of toast
a wise iaadlady humored her, and
each day for three days she found at
her plate a nice large quarter of rich
pumpkin pie With 4 crust so thin that
il could not hurt her. Sine really ate
a dish Of warm pumpkin, with egg and
milk and sugar and other nourishing
ingredients, disguised as pie: and at
the end Of that time she was ready for
her cereals again.
There is everything in eating just
what you want and in getting all you
want OF 1T
If the tired working girl viii take
for her supper a nice dish Of succotash.
or a bowl of pea soup. or the best of
vegetable broth. and will finish with an
charlotte russo or ice
cream. or any other easily digested
food she will find herself in better
10 the conventional boiled dinner, which
seemed. somehow to go against her
from start to finish.
The stomach is a curious organ. 1t
has its likes and dislilles. its cravings
and its relishes. And when it does
not want an article of food it throws
il forth In less pronounced strain it
rebels against foods which ii did not
crave. and the gastric juices when
-ome so freely when the right article
IS eaten viii not come at all when the I
-rong thing is put into the stomach.
There is little rhyme or reason in it ALL
COR the stomach is a law unto itself
The working woman or the working
nan-the tired creature anywhere
should not take a swallow of any food
hat does not agree with the internal '
organism, and should cross off every {
hing that is not palatable. This point I
llone viii often keep a person well in ]
lime of epidemic, and it is said that $
here would be fewer cases of typhoid J
f people did not force the stomach to t
axe unwelcome food. q
But there is the actual hard work
o be done by working girl. and to be
,ounterbalanced and counteracted.
The girl who is tired to death when G
The comes home at night is in no con- /
iluon TO perform athletics. Often she h
$ not fit TO do anything except to roll r
nto bed and sleep until morning. \
But the days work by no means ends s
o'clock for any woman, and often i