Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1914 — The Hard Workers. [ARTICLE]

The Hard Workers.

, The nervous breakdown of the British premier from overwork has started an inquiry by London newspapers as to the number of hours during which persons of various occupations find It necessary to labor. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was accustomed to work 15 hours a day. Cabinet members. It was found, enjoy less leisure than any other class, physicians and newspaper men coming next in the scale of Industry. The average clergyman, also, has little time to call his own. The extensile inquiry was not necessary to show that intellectual workers are compelled to work longer than those who work only with their hands. Eight or 10 hours comprise the - worteing day or the manual laborer, while Jt is not uncommon for intellectual workers to keep at their task for 12 or 14 hours dally. It is noticeable that the London investigators confined their inquiry to masculine workers. That Is typically British. They did not oonsid-r er the woman at home who cooks and sweeps and washes, who dresses and undresses half a dozen children, makes and repairs their clothes, does the Marketing, keeps the household accounts and her temper, and makes a husband walk in the straight and narrow way. To her a 12-hour day would seem like the beginning of the rest cure. Her dally work is a most trying combination of the mental and the physical. The compilers of figures to show who are doing the work of the world should make sure that their statistics are complete.