“At the age of five Yashka was sent out as nurse to a baby of three.
And from that time she has never stopped working. She looks none the
worse for it. Finely yet strongly built, with broad shoulders and
healthy complexion, she can lift 200 pounds with the greatest of ease.
She has never known what fear is.
“Not long ago she remarked that during the last two years she had lived
through so much that there remained but one danger yet to experience,
that of flying. Just as she was saying that an aviator came up and
offered to take her for a flight, and before the day was out she had
exhausted her list of perils.