Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-05

THESE young women callnly buried, as tney
travel to and from their jobs, in the sad
misadyentures Of that hapless maiden.
''Willful Pansy."
Business Mems Reading Habits.
The New Yorker whose business requires
him to do a great deal Of going about buys
and glances at an incredible number OF
newspapers. mostly Of the penny variety,
during the course of a weekday. Some Of
these scare-head penny newspapers are is
sued every hour from 8 o'clock in the morn
Ing until 10 O'Clock at night. and couple
OF them occasionally run of half-hourly
editions, each Of which seldom differs in
any respect whatever from its predecessor
except in a Encouragement of the huge
headlines. All Of these editions are eagerly
gobbled up by itinerant business men.
plent1fully supplied with coppers, on the
chance that something new might be found
In the later edition, and you will often see
dainty women in the cars soilng their
white gloves with just-turned-ofr vel
lows, the ink Of which is barely dry.
The eye specialist who predicts a sight
less breed of New Workers says that read
ing in the cars during broad daylight hours
is naa enough; on account of the steady
vibration Of the cars, but that the abb
sorption of printed matter in the cars after
nlghtfall is simply the deliberate ruination
OF the human visual sense On the ele
waited trains the light is always poor. and
this in addition to the unceasing vibration.
says the eye expert. is enough to drivc the
car reader with abnormally good sight to
the use of glasses within a very few years
after he becomes addicted to the practice
Of reading in transit. But it is the prac-
tice OF reading on the underground trolley
cars, or any electrically illuminated cars,
for that matter. that the oculist particu-
larly arraigns. While the illumination of
such cars is generally brilliant the cur
rent Is being necessarily turned off at
crossings or for other reasons. and the eye
specialist says that the individual who en-
n leo h &c rtrr1.t ~,
page with this incessant game Of light and
dark going on might just as well have his
eyes removed at once, and be done with it,
thus saving himself the distress incident
to swift decline in visual power.
That reading on the cars is a bad prac-
tlce Is fact that old-time commercial
travellers are pretty generally aware Of.
The experienced drummer may rarely
De seen with newspaper or book in his
hands while IN transit no matter how long
his journey. They therefore seek other
methods of diverting themselves. where
fore 1t may reasonably be said that most
OF the good new stories that float around
the country may be more or less directly
traced to the "drummers' -" sensible con-
sideration for their eyes.
New Workers. Ideas Of WASHINGTON.
No fiction seems to be more firmly i'm
bedded in the mind of the average New
Yorker than that Washington, D. c., is the
most malarious town on the face Of the in
habitable globe. 1t Is virtually impossible
to run across New Yorker who doesn't
believe In this aged myth. About all the
average New Yorker knows about Wash
ington is that the Capitol. the White House
and lin his mind) the malaria are there
To hear him talk you'd positively begin to
believe that as miaSmatic center Wash
ington, D. c., stands upon about a plane
with Cairo, Ill, as that town was described
by Dickens in his American Notes" and
Martin Chuzzlewit."
"Ah, from Washington, them" the aver
age New Yorker inevitably says when he
meets up with the capitalize Pretty
town, they say but whole lot of malaria
there, eh?"
1t Is perfectly useless to endeavor to tell
the average New Yorker that nowadays
Washington Is about as free from malaria
as its neighbors; that Washngtons mala-
rious period dates back to the time before
the famed Potomac flats had been reclaimed
and beat into shape by the government
The New Yorker when you tell him this
merely gazes at you skeptically, taking it
for granted that you are plugging" for
your home town at the sacrifice of strict
veracity. and he makes it pretty plain that
he doesn't take much stock in your state
ment that, for instance, there isn't any
more malaria In Washington than there is
in Baltimore.
All of this Is preliminary to the state
ment, which is capable of verification by
the monthly figures of New York's health
department. that New York city is now the
most malarial large city in the United
States The torn-up condition Of the streets
owing to the construction of the subway
is responsible for this situation. At many
points along the line of the building under
ground railroad the earth is penetrated to
depth of as much 100 feet, and this
turnedup soil Is producing hundreds and
thousands Of cases Of the most vicious kind
of malaria among persons who reside along
the line Of the excavation.
Disease of Virulent Type.
1t is not, moreover the mild compare
lively innocuous brand of malaria such as
old-time Washingtonians used to be ia
miliar with, but 1t is ''maleerie' of viru-
lent. positively dangerous sort; the regular
swamp sort that used to be known as
''chills and fever" or "ague' and that kills
as often as not Deaths from malaria are
of daily occurrence in New York and the
people who live along the line of the sub
way are taking alarm over the situation
and moving away by the hundreds. The
subway species of malaria seems to be es-
pecially injurious in it's effects upon chill
dren. and 1t has already swept a great
many of the young ones to their death.
Druggists here say that their sales of qui-
nine and other Misunderstanding medicines
have more than quintupled since the begin
ming of the subway, tho malarious inf1u-
ences Of which appear to have extended
throughout the entire city.
Female Lawyers Graduate.
Forty female lawyers were graduated
from a celebrated New York law school
the other day. Most Of them have already
completed arrangements for Immediately
beginning practice. Not a few Of them
have been taken into well-established legal
firms as female partners" the firms thus
taking them in having ascertained by eXpe-
rience and observation that there are many
cases In which trained women lawyers are
fitted to do better work than young men,
particularly civil cases in which there is
involved a considerable feminine element on
both sides. The writer saw these forty
young women at their graduation, and the
majority OF them were distinctly pretty.
Those that were not pretty had interesting
determined countenances. There was moth
ing whatever Of mannishness about their
demeanor, and they might easily have been
taken for a graduating class at a female
seminary. where tatting and music formed
the major part Of the curriculum.
The spectacle Of young women partici-
pating as trial lawyers before New York
courts Is now SO common that 1t attracts
little or no attention. About half a dozen
Of them have during the past five years
won their way to actual legal eminence
owing to their proven habit Of winning q
majority Of their cases. even cases of the
hopeless-looking sort that many Of the
male lawyers declined to touch and 1t was
recently stated in one Of the legal publica-
lions that at least four OF these women are