The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-24

read nor write. But the prince has
changed all that. He is a great lover
OF education and has covered his prin.
cipality with elementary schools for thu
benefit Of boys and girls alike. while at
Cettinje is the Russian institute. where
certain number OF Montenegro girls
receive more or less European educa-
ton and are initiated into civilized
ways and customs Every year educs-
ton is spreading: the girls are learning
10 read and write and finding out more
OF the position of their sisters In ths
great countries OF Europe.
Soon Montenegro will be face 20 face
with the awkward question. Who Is 20
do the work OF the principally? VIII
these educated girls be, content 20 go
back 10 their villages and resume their
peasant life? VIII they be content TO
lapse into what their mothers are. 10
forget useless education which has led
10 nothing. and TO resume the heredi;a-
~ tasks OF digging in the fields and
staggering under heavy loads. while
the men smoke cigarettes in the sun or
swagger down the narrow street In
gay coat. with a belt full OF revolyers
and yataghans?
Ii is more than probable that their
education. by taking them away from
field work while they are vet young,
will unfit them for heavy labor. and
| that their glimpse OF the position OF
fairly well 10 do women in Europe will
make them unwilling 10 be beasts OF
burden. while the men idle through long
years OF peace. perading useless weap-
ons and standing in readiness TO be
called out To fight an enemy who never
comes. But II the Montenegrin con-
tinues to think work beneath the dig
nifty OF a warrior. after his wife has
risen from her condition OF slavery. the
barren rocks VIII refuse the scanty
crops they now yield. and an increased
subsidy from both Russia and Austria
will alone save the little principality
| from ruin.
For the time being the position OF
half educated girls in the Montenegrin
villages is a very awkward one. Many
of them become governesses. but they
must needs be in the minority and those
who do not reach so high standard OF
| excellence are out OF place when they
return TO their native cottages. They
cannot work and they are not wanted 10
teach. and. though greatly improved
and emancipated. they suffer from be-
| ing more advanced than the rest of the
country people. In time. as the older
generation dies OF and education
| spreads. this isolation will disappear.
but meantime those in the forefront OF
the change must suffer.
| Perhaps peace and Independence viii
| bring about what the Turks could never
effect. Now that the tide OF Islamism
has ebbed away from tho rocks OF Mon
tenegro. all reason for the existence Of
the little principally as separate
state has also passed away. Montene-
gro Is but a part OF Herzegovina.
and now that that province is no longer
ruled by the Turks. but administered by
+ Christian power. the necessity for a
/ Slav state artiic!ally separated from
other Slav states Is rapidly and obvi-
ously ceaslng to exist In the old days
the men were warriors and the women
workers: but now the men viii have 20
do their share Of the work. and the
education and emancipation of the
wcmen is one Of the FIRST symptoms. "a
IL will assuredly be one OF the final
causes. OF Montenegro finally ceaSing
TO exist as a separate. ISOLATED and in
dependent state. at any rate with her
present restricted boundaries.