New-York tribune., 1911-01-29

! I'm any Of the little villages OF Seryia 20
villages some of them, OF not more than a
dozen families--it Is rare not to find at
| least one family that has a son In Hedel-
| berg, in Paris or In London, studying in
one Of tie great universities AS much is
done in Servla for the education OF men
as in any country in the world but not for
the education OF women. and the Servian
girls want II. Letters come from them 10
reople in Belgrade-letters something like
this: L want to study more. I am trying
TO teach, and find know so little. What
can do TO learn more|
The university at Belgrade admits girls.
but In Servia a girl may rot go away from
home. may not go out into the street even.
unchaperoned. IL IS for these girls. and
also to teach the girls OF the people about
scientific agriculture and domestic arts
that certain women in Belgrade have de-
termined to found a pension or boarding
schC o for them in that city. The wives
Of the representatives OF the Servian gov
ernment in other countries are helping.
and | have come back to America TO learn
the best way Of doing the work"
'I' is Nine. Slavko Grouitch. wife Of the
Servlan Charge dAffaires at the Court Of
st. James's. not many years ago Miss
Mabel Gordon Dunlop. a Yves, Virginia
girl OF Scotch descent
Like a good many girls. / came out in
Washington" she said yesterday AT .tbe
Holland House, where she went on her
arrival by the Mauretania on Friday night
But after few weeks of dancing and
Il 4 II On
enough My father was always delvng in
archaeology and ethnology. and ! suppose
the love OF these things was born in me.
Any way, the desire TO know more about
them led me abroad, and in Athens I met
NJ Groutch. who represented his country
there at that time, and we were married.
Afterward ne was sent to ST. Petersburg,
where We lived for some time, but | have
spent three years in Serva-long enough
TO learn 10 care a great deal about its
needs
you know it's like this ~ Seryia.' Nine.
Grouitch went on. tracing an imaginary
map on the wall. up here is Belgrade,
Just across the Danube from Austria Hun
gary, with fine bridge spanning the river.
Here 10 the left are Bosnia and HerZe-
govina, annexed by Austria Hungary, and
beyond is Dalmatia-all intensely Servian.
anxious to keep 10 the Servian customs and
ways-and here is Servia proper. Now the
position Of the Servian woman in her
household is one OF dignity. and the men Of
that country are fun of iistaste for the
ways Of the Turks who keep their women
behind closed doors, and also for the ideal
OF the German, who desires his wife TO be
the hausfrau. Servian men want their
women TO be their companions but they
have traditions there which make II I'M
possible for young women 70 go out into
the world In Seryia a woman couldn't
possibly travel as I am travelling here. It
is so not only with the so-called better
classes but with the people. | had young
maid in Belgrade daughter OF shopkeeper,
and | couldn't send her on an errand un-
less ! sent an older servant with her. Ii is
no desire TO keep women down but simply
the feeling that a young woman must be
chaperoned.
That il why We want a pension-to en-
able girls from the outlying parts Of Servia
and from Bosnia, Herzegovina and Dal-
malta TO enjoy the educational advantages
al Belgrade without doing violence to the
national feeling. There is excellent teach
ing in Belgrade. l had little niece who
England and took high rank in mathe-
matcs-met the senior wrangler at oxford
and vanqushed him.
But it is really not about the higher edu-
cation part Of the plan, but about agricult-