. Thirty years in Washington; or, Life and scenes in our national capital. Portraying the wonderfuloperations in all the great departments, and describing every important function of our national go vernment ... With sketches of the presidents and their wives ... from Washington's to Roosevelt's administration . Tet as she unties a package, holds it up in. THE FINAL INSPECTION. 245 her left hand with the face of the notes upward and withher right lifts the upper right-hand end of every one of the4,000 notes, she not only counts but scans each note for im-perfections in texture, printing, seali
. Thirty years in Washington; or, Life and scenes in our national capital. Portraying the wonderfuloperations in all the great departments, and describing every important function of our national go vernment ... With sketches of the presidents and their wives ... from Washington's to Roosevelt's administration . Tet as she unties a package, holds it up in. THE FINAL INSPECTION. 245 her left hand with the face of the notes upward and withher right lifts the upper right-hand end of every one of the4,000 notes, she not only counts but scans each note for im-perfections in texture, printing, sealing, or cutting, and seesthat the numbering is in due order and that none are miss-ing. It is a revelation of what the trained eye and handand mind can do. It is commonly supposed that habitual application toroutine work breeds carelessness and a sort of mental blind-ness, but here more than fifty women count with unweariedvigilance, discernment, and accuracy, at a speed so extraor-dinary that each one of them passes through her hands anaverage of 32,000 notes a day, nearly two for every secondshe works! So trained have their eyes become that theslightest irregularity of form or color is noted. This per-fection of mathematical movement is acquired only by longpractice and by one order of intellect. There are personswho can never acquire this unerrin
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