the extent of her progress and her civilization and the marks of refinement in her...

And it is my conviction that Russia has done well... for she did not show herself to the world until the Communist system prevailing there had begun to yield its fruit and its harvest... and after she had rid herself of the unruly, destruc-tive, rabble elements that customarily accompany every modern development and every new awakening...

— Will you first tell me about the Russian woman... and is it true, what is rumored of her, that she has lost her femininity through her absorption in work-ing life??...

Mrs. Laure was the first to answer. She said:

— Beauty is lacking in Russia generally... but the woman has not lost her femininity through her immersion in working life...

And Mrs. Najla adds:

— Beauty there is relative... according to the regions... In Georgia, for example, we found beauty... and in Leningrad, ele-gance... But the Russian woman on the whole is very serious, eager for work... and she is neither beautiful nor elegant...

Mrs. Najla and Mrs. Laure agree in saying that the Russian woman is exactly equal to the man in everything... She performs the very same work he performs... except only the arduous kinds, and those that disfigure the body, or harm the woman if she is with child...

— And how does the woman there manage to reconcile her continuous work outside the house with her work inside it??...

— Everything is arranged for her so that she may carry on her continuous work outside the house in the fullest way... There are the day nurseries, the children's gardens, and the clubs, where the mother leaves

her infant or her child in the morning and takes him home with her in the evening or at midday... These houses give the children complete care... food and drink, tending and upbringing...

And the State is now con-sidering the establishment of boarding schools, which will spare the mother many other troubles... There is a project to establish 285 boarding schools, in which priority of admission will go to children who have no fathers, and to children belonging to large families...

— And what of education in the Soviet Union?

— Education is always free... and compulsory until the pupil has spent ten years in school... After that the State selects the gifted from among the pupils to continue their studies in the universities, where the State sees to their expenses and pays them a grant besides... As for the rest, it places them in vocational schools...

— Is there any difference between male and female?

— None whatever... The Soviet constitution has proclaimed the

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