Untitled

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18971, 21 January 1930, Page 8

In the shipyards, boiler sheds and machine shops of the North of England thousands of men spend all their working hours amid continual clangour, and in the textile mills many more thousands of women are unable to hear themselves speak from the moment the wheels begin to whirr until they stop. Yet Sir Thomas Legge, formerly Chief Medical Inspector of Factories, says the Lancashire factory operatives are “distinguished from all other workers for grit, wit, and good fellowship.” “Don’t eat between meals,” says a doctor whose advice is worth taking. He points out that if you do you are denying your stomach its necessary rest as surely as you are denying your brain rest if you try to do without sleep. The digestive organs work very hard when they are engaged on their particular job of dealing with a meal. The organs maintain a constant movement and, in addition, the digestive glands are busy at their particular work of secreting digestive juices.