BUSINESS WOMEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 127, 1 June 1927, Page 12

BUSINESS WOMEN.

OFFICE GIRLS' LUNCH

They pour out into the streets of Sydney in their thousands at lunch time, tho smart, bright and merry-faced office girls of the city, and a local paper has been giving them some good advice. Business girls, smiling their way through a day's hard work, would be surprised to learn with how sympathetic attention tho doctors view "their problems.

Doctors have a great deal to say about the quarters with which many business girls are provided and of the necessity of wider supervisory powers for local health authorities in tho great city. They are inclined to shake their beads sometimes over the shoes and stockings in which Miss 'Clerk faces wild* wintry weather, but it is the meal question which principally troubles them.

"My difficulty," said a doctor recently, "is how to give the girls sound advice without seeming to be impertinent, knowing as I do what brave faces many of these girls put on hard circumstances.

"I always feel sorry when I go into an oflice ami see a dozcu girls or bo drinking tea which has stewed until it is almost Mack. There, I think, is a point on which business girls might help themselves by co-operative action. "They might Mown pennies, , or whatever the weekly individual collection amounts to, until whoever makes the tea promises to send it up as soon as it is tiiiiik , . Try Milk. "But it is the business girl's lunch that is the problem. Where there really is no provision possible but that which allows of a roll and butter and a cup of tea, thqfe is nothing to say except —try substituting milk fur tea.

''Where more outlay is possible, I would again ask business girls to remember that milk is a and can profitably be included in the mid-day meal.

"Then, let them cut out the dished-up bits of meat and concentrate on egge, salads, cheese, brown bread and fruits.

"I know that there is sometimes difficulty in getting these things in the places available, but most tea-shops can provide a bowl of soup and an egg dish one day, a salad bread and cheese, with an apple and a glass of milk another day.

"These are the lines on which .hardworking, girls should go if they want to obtain the requisite vigour from their food. One last word—let them also not neglect to pass on any sensible food ideas they pick up to the people at honii- w ho prepare the evening meal."