The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-04
oman From Pacific Coast
Hives Results of Inyestiga-
tions in Many Lands.
RLS ARE MADE PREY
/ OF BRUTAL SOLDIERS
Babes Cared for; Girl In
fants Neglected or Left
to Starve.
| Cable TO The Tribune.

tlai CdDle 10 i ne lIlDuIicS
oNDON, Sept 3.-"Russian women
children are the most degraded In
bpe, il not In the world said Mrs.
line Helen Baker OF Spokane, Wash,
1he Tribune correspondent this morn
( say this after Investigation In Eng
] Ireland, Scotland: France. Germany
lum, Holland Italy, Austria-hun-
n Norway, Sweden and Russia Peas
girls in Russia are the prey of the
4ian soldiers. and there are thou
Is OF children who become charges on
The boy babies are put
/ good hands. They are educated and
he'd for the army. The girl babies are
Neglected that 40 per cent OF them
3b l saw more than 1900 babies un-
Three months old In the government
td1lng asylum In Moscow. Nearly
fere suffering from some disorder and
" were physical and mental Grip
he poor Russian mothers sought,
ping, TO touch the hem of my dress.
y do they weep They wish you TO
rcede with God to bring them boy
rs. They say that their husbands
b TO love them unless they bear ba-
/ 70 go to war.
Praise for Tolstoi.
4 passed a week with Count Tolstoi
his family. l found the great re-
jer full OF pity and horror over the
,ortunes OF his countrywomen.
he soldiers are privileged ruffians
move their camp from place to place,
ing the peasants OF their pigeons
Everything else they chance TO coyet
n make no return whatever, leaving
oilers destitute.
INLAND, otherwise happy nation,
l)wed down under the oppression Of
2orn- Strong Finnish men, viewing
icertain prospects OF spoilation; can
restrain their tears when discussing
-sub1ect. Only the interference Of the
zed world can save Finland. II Fin
. goes. ultimately the whole Scandi-
Can peninsula will go, too. Moth
4 can stop the westward march of the
|; ians except the Intervention OF the
Il bowers.
: Women Doing Mems Work.
lIj1e position OF German women is i'm
uE because the German mon ere be-
1Emore enlightened German wo-
t0ii long hours at street cleaning and
:, carrying, but get as good wages as
similarly employed. Austrian women
~ at the same tasks as their German
p. but get far lower wagesS talked
IH| women stone mason helpers in
4, "a who toll twelve hours q day for
.r1nts, American money, while men,.
= fellow workers, get three times as
gle Scandinavian countries have the
IN school system OF any country
/ "a Mothers and fathers there sit
" side In parliament and make laws
!. Fern themselves / took China dolls
sNpbber balls TO the Lapp children at
EH Cape, and you should have seen
10y of those strange little beings,
t.pnguage was Greek 10 them, but
i, Beemcd to understand me. The
n arc a gentle. contented and filthy
az 1th Comparatively few children and
uI: :@quirements. Dogs and babies share
he me cot.
IL fpite the terrible plight OF many
Ia and children, especially girls, the
~ scems to be growing better. The
oVuuBre of ignorance and brutality is
slowly, but 1t is going One day
eil9ll learn that he sins against him
N Shining against women, Then we
aHye real progress towards a per-
r-E-C