Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-04-12

cultivating her voice. Nine dc Wollant
developed 80 strong hlslrlonic talent
that all arrangements were quickly made
Tor her debut on the stage. Her work
there was SUCCESS and by many she
recr, however, had to he abandoned on
account OF III health. Returning to her
former home In Washington, she met and
married her husband, who is gifted
scholar and writer.
One feels at glance the force of
Dosthievsky's teaching. Russia is a
teresting the women of this wonderful
world! Types and temperaments OF
every cline.
Under the master hand OF civlliza-
ton, with the impetuosity and strength
OF youth. they cast off prejudice and
tradition and stand today the equals
of men,
The Russian woman has absolute
control of her affairs and property
and female land owners of certain
areas OF land vote by power of at
torney in the zemstvo. This is the
local administration. whose duties are
to keep roads and bridges In order
and provide means OF conveyance for
the rural police and other officials; to
elect justices of the peace; to look
after primary education and sanitary
affairs; to watch the state Of the
crops and take means against APP
preaching famine and to undertake
within certain limits whatever seems
likely to increase the material and
moral well-being of the population.
Travelling in Russia, ! observe that
tile Russian woman takes the initia-
tive everywhere Arriving at n sta.
ton, II is the wife who hastens to
call the porter. taking his number and
experimenting the family descent
from the train. She manages the
family and servants. demonstrates If
the food does not smt or II the bills
are exorbitant or the service bad. .
She seems to be the inspiration and
guide everywhere and calls to mind
the first women of Russian legend,
who strobe across the steppes with
! an air that raised them above the
masculine element"
Valishefsky. in his book on Rus.
sian literature. maintains that Ger
tain features OF the legendary type
appear even In the most recent ar
tistic creations of poetry and 70.
nance Whether the author be
Poushkine. Tourgeniev or Tolstoi,
whether it be question of love or ac-
ton or doing good or finding the right
way, the initiative is most frequently
allotted to women"
In the great movement of $4,000,
when the cry ITO the People," arose,
the great percentage Of young women
Of all classes among the youth of
! Russia who left homes of luxury
F, to devote themselves to study and
the spreading of education among the
| peasants is very noteworthy.
II was about this time that the
women of the United States were
making efforts to secure better in
tellectual training and Matthew Vas.
F, sar, recognizing in woman "the same
Z intellectual constitution as in man."
opened Vassar college in 1865.
The German universities whose
doors we're first opened TO women
were filled with eager Russian stu.
dents. and the professors continually
pointed as examples to the young men
f, the astounding progress and working
capacity of these new women.
Girls threw of the yoke of home
life, women who felt that marriage
, dc convenience was not a noble, lust
state. left their husbands. 1t is to
be regretted that the reckless on.
thusiasm knew no bounds. but let IL
be said in their favor that the ma.
| jority of this great lawless class was
| vigorously moral.
To Russia belongs the distinction
of having the first woman physicians.
One of tho first and best, Nadezhda
Susloff, was born serf and was freed
with her parents at the emancipation
in 1861.
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