Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-11

copyright In the United States ana Great bfitain
by Curtis Brown. All rights strictly reserved9
LONDON, November 1. 1900,
- oNDON has its Jungle" as fun
of beasts, as foul and degrading
product of human greed and
IL cruelty as Chicago's, and London
has found an Upton Sinclair to
expose it's horrors in the person OF WOMAN
Olive Christian Malvery.
Like Upton Sinclair. she has obtained by
nersonal experience her knowledge OF the
revolving and brutalizing conditions under
living much of the preserved food trade OF
III. modern Babylon. She shared the Tolls
and lived the lives of the victims OF IA
pacity and fraud whose cause she cnam-
pions She worked in jam factories, wnere
rotton fruit Is converted into table dainties'
she labored in meat-preserving estaotSn-
ments where putrid messes arc suncientiy
disguised by chemical processes 70 serve
q. canned food; she shaved for slum sweat
srs at starvation wages; she lived In the
most wretched Of cheap lodging houses; and
that she might drain poverty's cup to the
dregs she became a homeless wanderer and
passed some nights on the Thames EN-
bankment with bench for bed. What
she learned In this way the British public
is to be told before long, and judging by the
account of her experiences which Miss
Malvery has just given me the result will
be a storm of popular wrath In this country
only less vigorous than that which swept
over the United States after Upton Sinclair
made his famous exposure OF some Ameri-
can packing house methods.
When / first heard of Olive Christian
Malyery / figured her in imagination as q
woman OF the masterful. masculine type,
hard. thick-skinned, strong-wllled-the sort
of woman who might easily don trousers
and go through life playing mans part
Al. u Dat ahA
antithess of this type. There Is nothing
suggestive of the woman with q mission
about her She is about the last woman
in the world one would pick out as one who
would enter Londons Jungle" dare its
perils and expose Its horrors.
She is a native of India. whose women
are supposed to be SO Oppressed and be-
nighted that many thousands of dollars are
spent on missions to convert them to
Christianity and spread among them the
blessings of civilization. Her life story is
a most romantic one. She was born in La
hore. In her veins flows the blood of Indian
princesses. East and west are mingled IN
her ancestry, for her great-grandfathers
were respectively French and Scotch. But
her physique and physiognomy are those or
the oriental.
Early emancipated from the trammels
that surround native girlhood in India, she
cluded a knowledge of three oriental lam
guages and thorough mastery OF English
She Travelled much about India. She gazed
on the aweSome grandeur or the snoW-cidu
Hfmalayan mountains, and reveled in the
matches beauties of the Cashmere lakes
The charm and mystery of the scenes amid
which she wandered-the vast sohtudes the
ruined cities. the busy marts--fred her i'm
agination, and when a mere child she De-
gan to write stories
For some years she cherished the am
bition of becoming a great writer But
among the gifts which nature has bestowed
upon her was a voice of rare charm and
compass. Some of her friends advised her
to go to England and cultivate that voice
and take up singing as profession. While
still In her teens armed with few intro
ductions she came alone to England. and
for two years was a student at the Royal
College of Music. At the same time she
studied elocution and dramatic art under
Beerbohm Tree.
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