The sun., 1905-08-13

and earn her living at the same time. Sne
was also anxious to make q study OF COO
nomic conditions in America.
In the last year she has worked In button
factory, she has made sleeves in a ready
made clothing establishment, she has
assisted Prof. Vladimir Simkhovitoh in
some literary work. and she has been hired
girl for an up State farmers wife.
Miss Ouspensky is still very young. She
has q small, round, fair face, with rose
leaf complexion, blue eyes and golden
brown hair She does not look In the least
new-womanish or revolutionary, yet she
has already spent two weeks in jail ana
been ban!shed from st. Petersburg on 40
count of her political opinions.
While she was student in girls high
school in st. Petersburg in 1901, various
Young men students in the city were con-
scripted for the army. The students
made demonstration in opposition. That
is. they held meeting in the street In front
of a church and made some speeches. For
this 900 Of them were arrested, girls and
bo vs., and kept in Jail two weeks. Then
thew were solemnly banished from the cities
of Ru ssia for two years and warned to stay
In the villages or country.
Miss Ouspensky supported herself by
teaching during her two years OF village
life. Her knowledge OF peasant life in
Russia thus obtained decided her vocation.
She will be a doctor and will settle among
the peasants, practically medical mis-
sionary.
NATURALLY all the doctors wish to practise
in the cities, where there Is the best chance
for a livelihood" said she the other day
to a Sun reporter. "Very often there
will be no doctor for many miles among
the pea SAINTS. think can do the most
good by sett ling among them" !.
Asked what she had found the greatest
advantage Of living in America, she made the
reply: Il can read Russian magazines.
-You know" she explained, If l were
caught reading our liberal magazines at
home would go to Jail 1t is very tire
some to keep thinking OF the police all the
time one is reading. Here I can read Our
liberal papers in peace
"You can read what you like and say
what you like in America. That Is your
greatest blessing. Also the condition OF
the workmen Is very much better.
-The working day is thirteen or fourteen
hours long in the factories of Russia,
and the children Of and 10 work-oh,
terribly. Then the blacklist Is absolutely
perfect. workman cannot even leave his
lob il he is dissatisfied II he does his
name is put on the blaclbook of every
fac, ory in Russia.
"He cannot get another job He cannot
change his name, for no one can go any
where without q passport, and If person
is caught changing his name 1t Is matter
for the police.
the employees with clubs or with their
fists. The workmen have no recourse.
They cannot have the man arrested for
assault as they could in America. The
workrooms are all better In America They
are bad, very bad In Russian factories
Nevertheless. Miss Ouspensky will re-
turn to Russia this fall
Il must earn money while l study, said
she: ~here l can only work in factory.
At home I can easily, earn my living teach
ing and keep on with my course"
When Miss Ouspensky desired to extend
the field of her observation to American
farm life, she went to Albany, and then
started on walking tour to find work.
At Patte-sonville, little village near
Schenectady. she found a farmers wife
vino wanted a servant. She worked at
this place for a month. Asked the result
OF her observations, she said. quantity:
'Your peasants; they are not like ours.
They are educated; they read and write"
IL s impossible to repress smile at the
picture Of the farmers wife were she TO
know how she had been studied for month
as a type Of the American peasant
students Of universities cannot 60 to
work in factories In Russia,' said Miss
Ouspensky; selther a. servants or In any
manual labor. The polioe say What. you
wish to msks pfopagandar