WOMEN SAMSONS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9657, 14 July 1919, Page 5

WOMEN SAMSONS.

Examples of extraordinary strength and endurance on the part of women war-workers have been given recently by Mr George Ryder of. the Amalgamated Society of Engineers. He says that in a Birmingham shell /actory women -habitually handled- and lilted shells weighing 250 pounds each. Work is measured in foot-tons —that is power sufficient to raise a ton weight one foot. The working powfp developed by the human body is 3400 foot-tons a day. The heart atone does 120 foot-tons in 24 hours. Considered purely as an engine, the human body is very wonderful. The average day's work of a. man in good health is equivalent to raising two million pounds to the -height or one foot, and all this is done on the consumption of about eight pounds weight of food, drink and oxygen from the flir he breathes. W'cdmpare the work of strong men ynW strong women is interesting. The "ikons" of Mexico and the professional porters of Turkey axe.reckoned the strongest of mankind. One or the