The Slavic Immigrant Woman A SLAVIC IMMIGRANT WOMAN The Slavic Immigrant Woman BY BESSIE OLGA PEHOTSKY CINCINNATI, OHIO POWELL WHITE TO MY MOTHER PBEFACE There is no lonelier person in American life than the Slavic immigrant woman. Separated from the old home, bewildered in the new, she lives her life in a confusion of strange problems in which she needs the help of Christian women. But unless we know her and her cares we cannot help. This little book draws aside the curtain of the Slavic home and reveals the inmost life of the Slavic woman. It tries not only to state her problems but to help solve them in a practical way. It is our wish that as Christian women read these pages they will forget the differences of language and nationality and see the Slavic Immigrant Woman only as a Woman. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE Preface 7 I. Whence Come They 13 II. The Russian Immigrant Woman 17 III. From the Old World to the New 39 IV. Organization Work Among Foreign Women 64 V. The Home Department of the Church. ... 90 VI. The Challenge 106 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS A SLAVIC IMMIGRANT WOMAN Frontispiece FACING PAGE A GROUP OP AMERICANS AND SLAVIC AMERICANS HIKING, WHOS WHO A SLAV IN NATIVE COSTUME. 30 A POLISH HOME, CLEVELAND, OHIO 50 POLISH GIRLS CLUB 70 BROADWAY CHRISTIAN CHURCH, CLEVELAND, OHIO 100
