60 minutes for meals. 45 minutes for meals. Indifferent appearance. Must dress well. Many sit to work. On legs most all the time. MINORS MINORS 8 hours a day, 6 days a week. Not 9 hours a day, 54 hours a week. Not before 8 a. m. or after 5 p. m. before 8 a. m. or after 7 p. m. WOMEN WOMEN 9 hours a day, except when making Over 21, no limit to hours she may up for a holiday. work. Up to 21, 10 hours a day, 60 hours a week. 54 hours a week. (Law does not apply between Dec. 18th and 24th) Not before 6 a. m. or after 9 p. m. Not before 7 a. m. or after 10 p. m., if under 21. —_From the Common Good._ _The Common Good_, a civic and social periodical of Rochester, devotes its February issue to a compilation by its editor, Edwin A. Rumball, in collaboration with Catherine Rumball, of the facts in regard to the working girls and women of that city who numbered at the 1900 census about 19,000, or over 31 per cent of all the women of Rochester. The facts are for the most part taken from the last census or from the Federal Report on Women and Child Wage-Earners and other authoritative sources, and are handled so as to show Rochester people just how high up or low down in the scale of cities, Rochester stands in its treatment of its women workers. The report is also issued as an “equal pay” document by the woman suffrage organization. * * * * * Among the answers to the question why they quit school which Helen M. Todd put to Chicago factory children are the following from Why Children Work in _McClure’s_: “Because you get paid for what you do in a factory.” “Because it’s easier to work in a factory than ’tis to learn in school.” “You never understands what they tells you in school, and you can learn right off to do things in a factory.” “They ain’t always pickin’ on you because you don’t know things in a factory.” “You can’t never do t’ings right in school.” “The boss he never hits yer, er slaps yer face, er pulls yer ears, er makes yer stay in at recess.” “The children don’t holler at ye and call ye a Christ-killer in a factory.” “They don’t call ye a Dago.” “They’re good to you at home when you earn money.” “You can go to the nickel show.” “Yer folks don’t hit ye so much.” “You can buy shoes for the baby.” “You can give your mother yer pay envelope.” “Our boss he never went to school.” “School ain’t no good. The Holy Father he can send ye to hell, and the boss he can take away yer job er raise yer pay. The teacher she can’t do nothing.” * * * * *