Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 308, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1914 — WORKERS AFFECTED BY WIND [ARTICLE]

WORKERS AFFECTED BY WIND

Bringing of Fresh Oxygen Into‘Cities Has Been Shown to Have Most Beneficial Results. Office and worksbip management has, in some large businesses, been brought practically to the point of a science, London Answers remarks, and lots of curious little facts have been ascertained by those who have studied it . ’ Office staffs, for Instance, work best in windy weather, as do all brain workers, the reason being that in windy weather the ordinary more or less exhausted city atmosphere Is driven out by volumes of fresh oxygen. There is the same difference in the quantity and quality of work done in offices as there is between that done in unventilated and well ventilated workshops, and for the same reason. .No brain worker works as keenly in * stuffy room as in an airy one. Damp, dull weather has little or no effect on the output of work in offices, but it has in workshops. Manual labor is less efficient in damp than in dry air, the reason is that tbs moist air acts as a conductor of electricity and drains away the natural electricity of the body into the ground. ' This does not affect the brain, but only tbs muscles and the spirits.