Besides the cost to endurance, nerves are at constant tension for hurry is the remorseless rule. A waitress must not only remember a multitude of orders and fill them quickly, but she must keep her temper under the exactions of the most trying customer. The cook must keep her head amid the confusion and noise of a hot, crowded kitchen. The kitchen girl must be everywhere at once with a helping hand and the dish-washer’s very job depends upon her quickness. One of this latter group said that she washes seven thousand articles in an hour and a half. A waitress, when asked the effect of the work upon her, answered, “Sore feet and a devilish mean disposition.” A man restaurant worker speaking of kitchen girls remarked, “It’s no work for a woman. They have to lift heavy pots full of vegetables and fill in all the gaps. A man has some endurance, but a woman can’t stand it more than nine hours a day.” Many kinds of work are difficult and taxing in their performance, but if the working day is not prolonged beyond a certain point, and there is a sufficient period of rest, such work is not necessarily injurious to the health of the worker. If this point is passed, health is impaired. [Illustration: A MOVIE OF THE RESTAURANT WORKER I 7 A.M. The Waitress arrives—15 minutes for breakfast II 7.15 to 10 A.M. Customers must be served III 10 to 12 A.M. She sorts, folds and polishes IV 12 to 3 P.M. With heavy trays she walks about five miles V 3 to 5 P.M. “Free” and nowhere to go VI 5 to 8 P.M. Carrying trays and walking many miles VII 9 P.M. Exhausted—Home and to bed VIII 6 A.M. The daily grind begins again HER PROGRAM FOR ELEVEN HOURS A DAY! SEVEN DAYS A WEEK!] THE DAY OF A RESTAURANT WORKER. The day of a restaurant worker does not begin with her arrival at the restaurant nor end when she leaves. Half of these women live at a distance, taking thirty minutes or more to reach their place of employment. When this extra hour spent in going to and from work is added to a twelve hour day, it is a factor to be reckoned with. It means cutting off an already insufficient night’s rest, and, when a girl cannot afford carfare, a weary walk home after being on her feet all day. Nor is this all. Only a few of the best-paid waitresses can afford to pay for the laundering of their aprons and uniforms. Consequently this must be done by the girl herself, adding another burden to a load already too heavy.