Show STATUS OF RUSSIAN WOMEN peculiar state of affairs in the empire of the czar we think that russian women are far behind american and english worn wom en in business and professional eman ci patIon yet in st petersburg you can see one of the finest medical colleges for women in the world and quite as many women doctors flourishing as in london the pictures one gets of russian prison life from tolstoi and george kennan are terrible and revolting but russia has a model prison at arch angel one of the finest in the world again from tolstoi and from gorky one sees the peasants utterly without liberty without hope but every vil lage has its mir or village council where the advanced doctrines of local option and women 1 I suffrage are carried out two things long fought for hunsuc cass cess fully in england |