GOOD APPETITES

Evening Star, Issue 23497, 10 February 1940, Page 19

GOOD APPETITES

JOBS THAT MAKE YOU FAT You can understand men employed in electric works having good appetites* The air being filled with ozone by the electric discharges has a similar effect to sea air. What is, odd is the fact that people employed in the, sheds where they cure tobacco .are always hungry. I’here is something peculiar iu the emanations thrown out by tobacco leaves in process of curing, for ft is noted that in all tobacco factories the hands enjoy good appetites. Just the same thing happens in scent factories, where the girls employed keep wonderfully fit. This may be due to the antiseptic properties of such flowers as carnations jjud lilies of the valley. Not only have the girls better appetites than those employed in other kinds of work, but they rarely suffer from colds or influenza. HEALTH-GIVING QUALITIES. Birmingham is a centre of the seal-ing-wax trade, and sealing wax is largely made of resin. So well, are the health-giving qualities of resin known that the owners of the principal factory have many applications from girls whose lungs are affected or who are suffering from anaemia. Some even offer to work for nothing. One thins is certain: the girls who are employed in this factory nearly all gain weight. The people who work in that part of a chocolate factory where the chocolate cream is made almost all increase in weight. The girls are especially rosy and healthy. And their appetites are always good. The men who lay asphalt on the roads seldom suffer from illness, and in spite of hard work cat well and usually gain weight. One other industry in which the same thing is noted is-that of salt making. Salt workers rarely suffer from infectious diseases, while rheumatism is unknown iu their ranks.