Although the Congress was opened with praise for the women, it ended with an intentional insult to the highly talented and deserving leader, Mrs. v. Philosophow. Mr. Purischkewitch, the reactionary deputy of the Duma, wrote a letter in which he expressed his pleasure at the adjournment of her "congress of prostitutes" (_Bordellkongress_). Mrs. v. Philosophow surrendered this letter and another to the courts, which sentenced the offender to a month's imprisonment, against which he appealed. After this Congress has worked over the whole field of the woman's rights movement, a special congress on the education of women will be held in the autumn of 1909.[103] Since the Revolution of 1905 the women of the provinces have been astir. It has been reported that the Mohammedan women of the Caucasus are discarding their veils, that the Russian women in the rural districts are petitioning for greater privileges, etc. An organized woman's rights movement has originated in the Baltic Provinces; its organ is the _Baltic Women's Review_ (_Baltische Frauenrundschau_), the publisher being a woman, E. Schütze, Riga. CZECHISH BOHEMIA AND MORAVIA Total population: about 5,500,000. The women predominate numerically. No federation of women's clubs. No woman's suffrage league. The woman's rights movement is strongly supported among the Czechs. Woman is the best apostle of nationalism; the educated woman is the most valuable ally. In the national propaganda woman takes her place beside the man. The names of the Czechish women patriots are on the lips of everybody. Had the Liberals of German Austria known equally well how to inspire their women with liberalism and Germanism, their cause would to-day be more firmly rooted. In inexpensive but well-organized boarding schools the Czechish girls (especially country girls, the daughters of landowners and tenants) are being educated along national lines. An institute such as the "_Wesna_"[104] in Brünn is a center of national propaganda. Prague, like Brünn, has a Czechish _Gymnasium_ for girls as well as the German _Gymnasium_. There is also a Czechish University besides the German University. The first woman to be given the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the Czechish university was Fräulein Babor. The industrial conditions in Czechish Bohemia and in Moravia differ very little from those in Galicia. The lot of the workingwomen, especially in the coal mining districts, is wretched. According to a local club doctor (_Kassenarzt_),[105] life is made up of hunger, whiskey, and lashes.