Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-09-30

which in Russia always precede the
gave signal. Silence. She repeat
ed the customary order. "Your pray
ers. young women!" Silence still. A
third appeal, equally unsuccessful
But this time the girls began singing
in unison the MarseJllnise.
| Yom have only to glance ut the re.
ports OF the Assistance Publlque I'm
Paris TO see how many young Rus.
sian women obtain employment In
hospitals, positions where the most
rigid educational tests are applied.
One of the most ilustrious scientific
women of tho day, Nine. Curie, Is a
Russian. This fall Russia will inaug-
urate II new institute for the higher
education of women, while for the
sterner sex little or nothing IL done
1t Is TO be complete university
with fOur-year course. Nor is this
all. The normal college at Saint Pet
ersburg received 50 many applications
Tor admission from young women this
year that the registrar had To send
J out printed letters Of refusal. explain
Ing that girls could not rs yet be ad.
mitted to the Institution. They Will
he though, for tradition is on their
sale.
Unfit for Home Life.
The high schools where girls arc
educated are of two classes, those of
the government and those OF the Elm.
press Dowagor. Fhcy have different
program. a student who has
passed seven years there, from the
time she Is ninc TIL the time she is
| sixteen, knows more OF science than
any other yoang girl In the world, but
she has learned absolutely nothing
about tho common things women are
supposed to be trained In. She can't
even sew. The girl graduate knows
everything except how to make n
3pme.
In the private schools-Taganser
Princess Oblensky, and the rcst-tlle
daughters OF the rich are educated.
The Institutes are open to pupils
who pour In from the provinces. Ii is
there that you find the veritnble hot.
beds OF feminine inteilectualism and
active terrorism. Daughters of sol.
diers and functiOnarles repair thither
from every corner OF the empire. The
Nenia Institute. under the protection
or the grand duchess, Is II profession.
ut school. All these schools give d.
plomas. And thousands upon thou
sands of young Russian girls are sim
ply crazy To win them. Once. secured,
they give their recipients right to
teach In their turn.
Come From High Schools.
Tho advanced students come al
most Invariably from the high schools
II Is well Known that such graduates
are to DO found In great numbers IN
our establishments of higher educu
Ion In France, and that they abound
In Switzerland. where the pleasures
OF study ARE rcdoubled for them by
the joys OF conspiring for the con.
quest of liberty. Let us see what
! they are doing In Russia:
The ferocious ones wear their hair
cut short. neglect the most elemen.
| hry requirements of the feminine
toilet ana hygiene. and care only for
| reading, despising everything else.
They are mathcmnticians, physicists,
chemists. They cat hardy anything.
Born In poverty, they spend the paltry
SUMS sent them by their families In
kicv, TchcrgSigof or Odessa, on lee
ttro courses that Saint Petersburg
affords by the dozen. Medicine at.
tracts them most. History and lin.
Suistics rank next. There are thou
sands OF them In Saint Petersburg,
armed with Identification papers, pho.
tosrnphs, genealogical charts. and pa
ternnl and other authorizations, which
INC police go over periodically, though
not without charging eXorhitant fees
Tor SO doing. This eats into their
tiny incomes, but that Is only small
consideration. They are taking
coursss-indefatigably. They are
achieving their ideal
Agents of Terrorism.
Comes there troublous period like
That which is now terrorizing Russias
They throw themselves into the me.
lee, revolver or knife In hand, or n
bomb, which Is less risky. For years,
now, revolutionary ferment has been
handed down In this way In Russia
by high school girls, CONSISTS, college
graduates turned teachers. and propa-
gandists with hearts aflame with anti.
dynaslic doctrines.
You may easily imagine the disor-
gambling Influence of the midwife.
the doctor, the postal clerk. the tele.
graphr, and the railway clerk in the
Dig and little cities OF the vast EN-.
plre. where for a long time these
young prlestesscs OF liberty have been
instilling-under the indifferent eyes
OF frivolous authorities and under the
officious protection of the zemstvos-
the IDEAS that government always
| regards as subversive when they are
contrary to II and incite the people