Excerpt from Technical World Magazine, Vol. 21: March, 1914 Tm; Noon hour Intelligent people are deserting the lit tle nip at the midday meal because. It does them no good and probably does harm. But when women gather in larger numbers it is tea and not the contents of a decanter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.