The Saint Paul globe., 1904-01-24

capitals and great ladies have passion cards and
for all sorts of gambling The country seat
a few weeks months the peasantest time of the
The castle is fitted the English style with az
French and English books The great lady looks after
the hospital school she has founded reads good deal
pays visits to the small proprieors and drives
another castle twenty miles off,
where they exchange gossip about their friends in St
The other type is honest straightforward and SEN
sible brave and energetic in soul as in body
These are the women with purpose workers people VIII.
views vie o and ideas If of the upper they worH IN r a
the peasanry in Better methods facing udaned
uphill task of influencing stod and ignorant beings Num-
keep up the great houses to which they belong.
s"nS fannie rave
organHn and aVne nfa M in and capable
to I've without black bread and ea
home often by two three accomplished and highly
:, There three classes Of elementary Schools schools
In the nsttu whe first sc@ 3
served Some only receive the daughters of the hered
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their sixth their s sizesnf6 @
The time they i see little of ar aSd a9 family eav The a m
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aaeetion best served 9E d ate
snd SaRe ans G Rof the S2
s4 Ssa :ssIs y s,tES ss'snss heroic struggle
When parents are unable unwilling to make al
lowance girls go off to university contrive
exc living taking pupils ana acting as servants in
the sympathy. Numbers study in foreign univer
sites to escape the harassing regulations OF the govern
ment which however at time interfered with their
residence abroad and ordered all return to Russia
pain of exile permission to study
abroad again granted and by every sort Of shift by
sending correspondence to foreign papers and by living
working girls three four in room they corive
support themselves.
Colleges for women in Russia have with great effort
been started from time time and whenever the
cellent courses given by men of science, Female
medical schools opened many years ago, and the
splendid work done by those who had studied in them
during G the War with Turkey in @ for them
closed when foVrisbpg because few students were
discovered to be implicated in political agitation but the
number of students was great and such exodus
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scheme hanpefed with all sorts of restricons and
the numbers limited but the women doctors have grown
so strong their work is SO well known and highly Valued
and they supported by such large subscriptions that
the Academy has been reopered.
Among the wild and scattered population of Russia
there is nexhaustble field for women doctors and
teachers It is the knowIedge Of this which has disarmed
ncrease every s esT II this profession hsy have made
distinguished name and have dlsarIned prsjudce have
The posts of iistructresses to the gymnasa the
congenal careers open to teachers and fairly
well paid The Zemstvo schools offer the largest fields OF
fee The scnoomistress liable to be cut off from the
world all through the long winter She tolls houfs
day for beggary reward lives IN cQrnfortess dahin
and sees no books society, Yet any girls take up this