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Show STATU8 OF RUSSIAN WOMEN. Peculiar State of Affairs In the Emplrs of the Czar. Wo think that Russian women aro far behind American and English women wom-en In business and professional emancipation. eman-cipation. Yot In St. Petersburg you can see ono of the finest medical collegos for women In tho world, and qulto as many women doctors flourishing u In London. Tho pictures one gets of Russian prison life from Tolstoi and George Kenuan aro torrlble and revolting. But Russia has a model prison at Arch-angel, Arch-angel, one of tho finest In tho world. Again, from Tolstoi and from Qorky one sees the peasants utterly without liberty, without hope. But every village vil-lage has Its "mlr," or village council, where tho advanced doctrines of local option and womon suffrago aro carried out, two things long fought for unsuccessfully unsuc-cessfully In England. |