http://www.tressugar.com Smart. Sexy. Fun. en http://www.tressugar.com/2568241 <a href="http://www.tressugar.com/2568241"><img width=160 height=118 src='http://media.onsugar.com/files/upl1/1/13254/49_2008/bcd8c9916d0a9766_Picture_4.large.jpg'></div></a><p><span class="inline left"></span></p> <p>This awesome book, <b>Hygiene for the Worker</b> was written in 1912 and can be found on <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/hygieneforworker00tolmuoft" target="_blank">this amazing Internet book archives</a> site. (Click on that link and it's like having the book in front of you - you can turn the pages and everything!) My favorite piece of advice for the worker involves how to handle women <strike>on their periods</strike> when they're being visited by "the curse." The following hilarious passage is from page 172. Interested? Then read more.</p> <blockquote><p>The hygiene manager of a modern factory or works will take into account only modern, scientific understandings of Female Biology. As a result, retiring rooms should be made available, where employees afflicted by The Curse during working hours can immure themselves. Such rooms should be equipt with a bell or horn, so inmates can signal the hygiene manager or his deputy, so they may signal a cab or ambulance to remove her from the workplace.</p></blockquote> <p>Wow. Can you imagine pulling that today? "Yo, manager, I got The Curse. Call me an ambulance, will ya?" I can't wait to flip through the rest of this! (Thanks, <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2008/12/04/hygiene-for-the-work.html" target="_blank">Boing Boing</a>!)</p> http://www.tressugar.com/2568241#comment Humor Feminist Humor Flashback Book of the Day Hygiene for the Worker Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:00:00 -0800 GiggleSugar http://www.tressugar.com/2568241