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 POSSIBILITIES OF THE PRESENT INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM 745

middle of the forenoon and of the afternoon fifteen minutes arc taken for rest and for calisthenic exercises under competent direction. For, even if engaged in mechanical employment, the women are confined to a sitting position during working hours.

FIG. io. THi RIZK GARDENS

A full hour is given at noon. Perhaps the one feature which, more than any other, has won for this establishment the epithet of "incipient socialism" is the noon luncheon furnished to all female help at the company's expense. These luncheons con- or coffee, soup, and some article of nutritious food, frequently meats. On the fourth floor of the adminis- tration building is a large (lining room, seating about 20O, tastefully decorated, and as eleanlv and attractive as a home ne. Adjoining is a model kitchen under the direction of a Pratt Institute graduate, who also gives cooking lessons to the wi.nien at the company's expense, In answer to the charge of dish) Of paternalism the compaiu " \Ve find the

average cost of these lunches to le thn-r cents each, and that by reason of them each woman does one-twentieth more work a day, This amounts to five cents a piece, making the gain 66%