FORTH TO TI-IE HARVEST 

 In Russia one may see i:i the harvest fields women wearing needleworli on their dresses that many an 

 American society woman would be proud to possess. Between rearing the biggest families in the world 

 keeping house and lending a willing hand in the field when needed, the Russian peasant woman finds time in 

 the long winters to express her love of the beautiful through a needle. 



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