The Washington herald., 1915-08-07
HEALTH AN ASSET.

Women no longer look on Qeicacy
as something to brag about. They
know that their charm, as well as
their capability, increases with their
health.
Many factories have installed ven
tilating systems and hygienic sur
roundings and comfortable methods
of working solely because they rec
ognize the fact that their employees
will give better results under these
conditions.
One corporation has taken the
health matter even more seriously
than this. 1t pays its women en-
ployes for keeping in good health.
When women enter this corpora
tons employment, they are careful
ly examined, physically, and each
week they are re-examined. A rec
ord is kept of their health and at the
end of three months they are graded.
There are four grades, carefully
worked out To be in the first grade
there must be record that shows
no colds in the three months and no
absence from work, and eyes either
normal or properly fitted with
glasses. The second grade permits
one slight cold and not more than
two days absence from work. Those
in the third grade are allowed one Sc
we're or two slight colds and not
more than four days absence from
work. OF course the employees are
rated for each grade on other condi-
tons of health than those of colds
and eyes and absence from work.
Those who are put in the fourth
grade arc in really poor physical con-
dition, and they are warned that I'm
less they improve they will be dis
charged. Those m the third grade
receive special health instructions
from nurses, those in the second
grade receive a bonus for three
.mcnths-when another test occurs
s.llO lllOSS III llIS - ddS 4OASlNS a
bonus twice as large as the second
grade bonus.
The whole system is quite like the
system OF examinations for mental
efficiency in schools and it is expect
cd 20 work out quite as satisfactorily.
Employers realize the value of
healthy employees. Most schools, too,
build up the bodies as well as the
minds OF their pupils. And women
at home realize that the day when
the only thing needed to captivate
all bcholdcrs was pallor and i ten
dency to faint has gone. But there
arc many women who run their
homes on modern, scientific lines
who are careless in the matter OF
health.
If they would systematic some
method of building up their own
health, if they would set tests which
they must pass. if they would consult
reliable doctor at any persistent
symptoms OF illness, they would be
carrying modern scientific and labor
saving methods one notch farther.
Did it ever occur to you that your
thrift could be gagged by the size OF
your garbage pail?
1t can be most accurately gagged
in this way. The French have almost
no need for a garbage pail. even of
diminutive size. We Americans have
a fine. shining. big galvanized iron
pail, which we pride ourselves in
keeping clean, with boiling suds and
disinfectants.
We need this big pail as sign of
our housekeeping solely because we
are so wasteful-bccause there are so |
many vegetable skins, bones and bits |
of fat, and stale left-overs to be
thrown away.
Perhaps our old plea that our time
is too valuable to waste over the con-
verting of every scrap of stale bread
into crumbs, of fat into drippings, of
bones into stock, of apple parings
into jelly. is a valid one. But the
fact remains that the size of our gar
bage pals is an arraignment against