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Satisfied that a pursuit so entirely representing extreme mental concentration, with most rapid physical manipulation, could not fail of producing a marked effect upon such girls of “forming” age as should be employed therein, inquiry was made at the United States Treasury at Washington, in the “ counting department ” of w r hich some thirty ladies are constantly employed in counting “ currency.” This counting is of pieces of one denomination at a time only ; i.e., a person counting “ tens ” counts tens only for the time being; and one upon “ fifties ” handles only pieces of that designation : hence the pieces, and not the amount, are counted, the number of pieces multiplied by the denomination, of course, giving the result in dollars and cents. The skill acquired in this department is truly wonderful, some of those employed counting millions of pieces per year. Let any one take a few hundred pieces of currency, and attempt to