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Show 8TATUS OF RUSSIAN WOMEN. Peculiar State of Affairs In the Empire of the Czar. Wo think that Russian women aro far behind American nnd English women wom-en In buslnoss and professional emancipation. eman-cipation. Yet in St. Petersburg "you can ace ono of tho finest modlcal colleges for women In tho world, and qulto as many women doctors flourishing as In London. Tho pictures ono sets of Russian prison life from Tolstoi and Qeorga Kennan nro torrlblo and revolting. But Russia has a modol prison nt Arch-angol, Arch-angol, one of tho finest in tho world. Again, from Tolstoi and from Qorky one seos tho peasants utterly without liberty, without hope. Dut over village vil-lage has its "mlr," or vlllngo council, whero tho advanced doctrines of local option and womon suffrage aro carried out, two things long fought for unsuccessfully unsuc-cessfully in Kngland |