The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-09

was to have this Office. He also made her
tutor OF classical Greek TO his daughter
Maria, now the Grand Duchess Michael
ovitch of Russia.
Miss Callisperi is engaged almost single
handed in a task which many women and
many men labored at some fifty years
ago in A~merica-the education of women
and their introduction to modern ideas
Of life.
You women in America" said she, can
have no idea of the desperate condition
or the women of the middle classes in Greece.
1t il not so bad for the women who are
actually OF the lower class, although
they are unskilled and i'll paid. But they
at least expect to work and do work. But
in the middle classes four, five, six or more
women-daughters, sisters, aunts, all sorts
of female relatives-will be hanging on
the back of n man for support. 1t is
a frightful drag on the men, it is a degrad-
ing and povertystricken life for the women.
But the wonen consider it a misfortune
and disgrace when they must work for
money, and the men of their families con-
slider 1t a misfortune and disgrace when
they must let them. IL implies a loss of
caste when any woman works for money.
Work is not respected; that is the whole
trouble.
What these women need is some way
TO employ their time usefully and profit
ably in their own homes. Many OF these
families are of the country or villages,
living upon their w land, sometimes
much land. Greece has a beautiful climate,
fertile soil, and yet we import eggs and
butter. Think OF that in comparison with
the millions that Denmark, a small, poor,
cold country, makes annually by export
ing eggs and butter. The currant trade
is no longer 1t once was in Greece.
We need a variety of agricultural pursuits,
and most Of all We need scientific agri-
culture.
This crying need of our educational
system il industrial schools; not to teach
the use of machines. but the Use of the
land. There are millions in silk culture
for Greek women, working in their own
homes, if they could he taught to do il
scientifically.
-Our schools do not reach the needs OF
the people. There will be ore hundred
children in the primary class, fifty in the
second, twenty-five in the third and ten
in the fourth. so the children pour out
Of the schools because they get nothing
useful there. Our women. too, should be
taught domestic science and handicrafts.
I'm the midst of this idleness and poverty
Of the women of rural Greece Nine. Favre
Is a standing contrast. Nine. Favre is a
French woman who has a large farm in
Thessalv. She has made thousands OF
dollars in silk culture. She has large herds
Of goats, which she employs men 20 tend.
She has beautiful gardens, she sells butter,
eggs. fruit and vegetables. Now, zee the
power of a woman who has brains enough
10 make money. In the war ten years
ago the Turks came to Aga, where she
lived. The fighting men were all gone
70 war. the women and children were de-
fenceless. She gathered those women and
children into her great farmhouse; she
locked her doors and ran up the French
nNAT her hOlIGa Aho had an TsaHn..
secretary, and she ordered him 10 run M
the Italian flag. Then she dared the Turks
TO touch her house. II was not touched.
we could cultivate this type II We could