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

trade and It was through his instrumental.
fty that learned the condition of some of
the baking houses In London. Ii Is true
that these were not of the best class: but
IT Is equally true that people who use
cheap timed meat are not of the richest
class either. and surely the customers of
the one class Of no less value than
the customers of the other.
In one big house. which was a sort OF
underground vault. damp and i'll smelling.
there were thirty men employed. all of the
most degraded class and exceedingly filthy.
The dough was being kneaded by the feet
and the air was so sitting and hot that
the perspiration poured down in streams
from the men into the dough. There were
other denominations In this place which ii
Is hardly possible to describe without tres
passing too closely on the indecent
They habitually used foreign eggs They
were broken up fndiscriminately In huge
troughs. beaten up and used, whatever
their condition. The stencil from them
was absolutely loathsome"
Miss Malvery obtained employment in a
bakers shop in the fashionable west end
and found things almost as bad there.
Eggs were used" she said. which were
sent from Holland in great casks-that is to
say. the eggs were broken into these casks
and packed in Holland they were not I'm
their Shells such as those that are sent
over for household cooking or table use
This is decidedly a trade that ought to
be stopped at once. for 1t was a usual
occurrence that these eggs arrived I'm a
semi-decayed state. OF course, they were
never destroyed, as the loss would have
and owing to the fiavorings used and the
baking they were subjected to II was
markable how little apparently bad effect
they had on the pastries and cakes they
were used for
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The above affords a few giimpses merely
Of the horrors of London's Jungle" as ex-
plored and exposed by Olive Christian NAL
very. Her work there brought on a serious
illness and she will enter It no more. l
have spoken of her by her maiden name
the name by which she is known to the
public-but in private life she Is Mrs Mac
kirby. Last year she married Archibald
Mackirdy. the United States consul at
Muscat. Arabia. Behind that lies another
romance. He saw a picture OF her in an
illustrated English paper which found its
way to him in Arabia which made such an
impression on him that he vowed the first
chance he got to go to England he would
find some means OF making the acqualnt-
ance of the original. And for once things
turned out they do in story books. The
marriage has proved a most happy one.
my great ambition now" she said to me
at parting. with quaint frankness us to
make my husband as good a wife as he de-
serves. And my next is to make a name
for myself In literature. I should like to
return to India to get inspiration. After
the horrors I have seen here-the squalor
the utter hopelessness, the sordid misery OF
life as 1t is lived by hundreds of thou
sands, the greed and Indifference of those
who profit by their toil-there is something
in the calm of life In India, the quiet ac-
ceptance of fate, which seems Infinitely al
turing to me now. There is no such degra-
dation Of womanhood in India-heathen In
dia as It is called-as exists in Christian
England" -. --.-.s. t E. Isle SMELL.