Show AMERICANS GREAT READERS pf af a well known national trait noted by a foreign visitor great readers you americans said a foreign visitor to these shores shares according to the now new york sun you seem seam to bo be reading rill nil the time newspapers or books and you read everywhere in public its aa in n private ou on the elevated cars in the subway everywhere and I 1 was getting quito bulto used to seeing the manifestation of af what appears to be a national habit but I 1 was a little surprised this morning yes just a little when I 1 ne saw aw a lady reading a newspaper TS he rode up ori on an escalator from the sidewalk to an elevated railroad platform 1 I know tho the restless american en orgy which prompts you to the ut cost economy of time to the utilization of every minute so that no illi harice alice for gain shall bo be lost but it beems to me in my dull an and d stupid old world way that there might be ouch duch a thing as overdoing this bitter economy of time dont you know in the caso case of the lady reading ou on tto the escalator for instance I 1 wan wad afraid it might lead to an ac accident to her it Is only a short ride on an escalator and I 1 was afraid she might forget and fall at the top for she teemed seemed very intent in fact I 1 tell whether she was economizing time or w whether hether she was reading because she was so interested I 1 in what she was reading but however she read and read intently all the way up or until she had got three steps from the top and then she stopped and looked up and then stepped oft off briskly and quite easely it must take about twenty live seconds for that escalator to carry one from the ground to the platform and sho she had read all but three steps sieps she had utilized twenty two seconds of at the time consumed on the trip i ais at 1 lost only three the most rem remarkable arka exemplification I 1 have yet seep of your characteristic economy of time and national habit of readi reading nEv quite wonderful people aba americans 1 e |