RUSSIAN WOMEN. 3 2 3 



and a penniless young man to obtain possession of the 

 hand and dowry of a wealthy young woman. The 

 scheme is an ingenious one and, leaving out the ques- 

 tion of dishonesty, ought to succeed and does. 



It would be an inexcusable act of injustice to the 

 Russian woman to dismiss her without pointing out 

 that whenever the true test of womanhood is imposed 

 upon her, she proves herself as great a heroine as any 

 in the world. 



In her hours of ease she may be " uncertain," even 

 " coy and hard to please," but when her husband is 

 overtaken by the exile's garb and starts on the dreary 

 road to Siberia, perchance to a living death, lovers 

 and all else are forsaken, and she is herself again — a 

 woman. 



