Evening star., 1898-12-03

Anna EvrefnOG,
| should she go thence with his permission
The only thing left, then. was TO go without
! it. which she did. She dressed herself ore
| day to attend the festivities OF her sister :
| name day celebration, and, taking advaa-
| tage of the occasion to load herself with
| all her jewels she went from her sisters
| house to the railway station. boarded A
| third-class carriage, and thus was speedsi
away toward the goal of her ambition.
How She Travelled.
AT small station not far along she lC.t
the train. fearing to be traced and over
taken. She sold her jewels here for an alb
surdly small sum- and with this sole source
ot funds proceeded toward the frontier,
travelling with horses from one village to
| another, being driven by outlawed Jews.
! she was, OF course, suspected of being her
| self an outlaw, and at place the man
| VINO was to convey her to the next stage
! grew fearful of the bargain he had made
and, instead of going himself started her
| out with a half-idiotic brother of his 10
| drive her. This creature carried her to the
| edge of dense forest, then refused point
blank to go on. telling her a man had been
| eaten by the wolves in that forest the wee k
previous. She coaxed, she commanded, hut
in vain. The creature remained firm in HIS
| determination to return, and she therefore
1
When she got within some distance of the
| frontier, to avoid possibility of detection
| she proceeded the balance of the way
afoot. The husband of Souya KoyaleVsky
| had sent her the papers necessary to get
| her across the border line where she was
| met by the kovalevskys and with Sony,l
she went to Heidelberg. Here the great
woman lawyer of Russia and the great
woman mathematician dwelt in the same
mouse. pursuing their separate studies IN
the university.
Two Great Students
| Anna Evreinoff and Souya Kovalevsky
! were playmates in childhood, and the for-
mer carries always with her a singular
| mark Of their early friends hip-the print of
| Souya's teeth upon her hand. AS children
| the subsequent rivals in intellect were
| rivals in physical strength, and one lav In
| wrestling bout, the embryonic woman
| lawyer threw the embryonic woman mathe-
| matician to the ground, whereupon the lat
| ter fastened her teeth in her victor's hand.
when we We're students together in
| Heidelberg" said Anna Evreinoff, relating
| the incident, Il used to show the scar and
| tease Souya with this evidence of her bar
| bsrity until she declared she would bite my
head off if did not cease
In the University of Leipzig.
At the expiration of a year and a half in
Heidelberg, Souya Koval9vsky departed to
| follow mathematics in Berlin, and Anna
Evreinofr went to study law in the Univer-
| sity Of Leipzig. She was the frst woman
| to take law course at Leipzig. Speaking
| of her experience, she said:
During the years | a student there
l was treated with exact justice by the
! faculty, and completely ignored by the stu
dents. They acted always perfectly ignor-
| ant OF my existence, and yet in all those
! years, never by word or look had cause TO
| feel myself conscious of my sex.
When 1 had completed the coursa the
| faculty did not wish to confer a dagree
| upon woman. They wished me to be con-
| tent with diploma certifying that / had
satisfactorily completed the course, but l
| said no. and said, further, I would stay
until they gave me my degree. ] sat in
class with a prince OF the realm on either
| side of ME, and finally determined to beg
| them to appeal to the king my behalf
King John Of SaNony, whose own lows of
study felt certain would incline him with
sympathy toward me. But l had not yet
spoken when one day the king visited the
| university, and noticing me, he asked who
1 was and about my studies. Then he
| called me to him. and congratulating me
on my attainments. asked me II l We're
happy in his kingdom No, your highness,
| 1 am not replied. and when he asked me
why not I told him because the faculty
would not let me take the examination for
Doctor OF Jurisprudence.
King as Advocate.
He was at once interested, himself be-
| ted to take the examination. But not as
We're the men. 1 was required to prepare
| my dissertation in advance, which was cir
| cuated among the faculty who We're five
| months in satisfying themselves that I
might have my degree. 1t was not the dis
| tinction of the degree l sought, but the au-
| thority it conveys which / wanted to give
weight and increased usefulness to my sub
sequent scientific work.
l have spoken of Anna Evreinon the
| coming woman. / hope I see clearly and
! not too hopefully In thus characterlzns
her. The creature We are accustomed TO
regard as the new woman is unseNed. OF de-
sexed, sacrificing the gentle traits of both
| mans and woman's nature 10 her inordt-
nate inteiiectuaiism and seh-love. Anna
Evreinoff appears to me superseded, IL
may coin my word, and is truly an instance
of genuine feminine independence.
But there is her physical attenuation and
her disregard for the esthetic possibilities
of a woman! is Tennyson's Princess"
| realized to be bony, plain and not we'll
dressed? All, but my new woman has just
arrived, and, IL you please, think of the
great distance she has travelled, OF the
opposition she has met and conquered-of
all that she has done and suffered. because
she is the first to come. which those who
follow her may miss, and SO have strength
and time for the ornamentation Of them
selves.
Not intellectual endeavor but self-sacri-
flee. is the keynote of this Russian woman's
development, and that, she describes
the national life of her country, seems to
be also the keynote of Russion civilization.
Rapidly Extending Communism.
She sketched to me a communism rapidly
extending among the peasants of Russia
that is one of Tolstois dreams Of brotherly
love come true.
when the serfs were liberated" said
she, "the great mass Of the peasantry found