The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST
TO SOCIETY WORLD
Mrs. Thomas BowrOn An
Afternoon Hostess :
THE DAYS EVENTS
e DAYS EVENTS
The Luncheon Hour at the Club.
Hostesses of the Present and
in Prospect-Mrs. Greg
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a woman WHO mas llNed among the ser
Wan people fer a considerable time gave
some interesting details the other day of
the quaint habit sand customs OF the Ser
Wan women who. because of the war in
their community, are in the liInelight just
now
mo SerNisn peasant girl of over Il or
is years of age" she said, will venture
outside of her own door without being
carefully dressed and as carefully painted,
even it only going in the early morning
TO the well for the days water supply.
''All the Servlan women are very pretty,
and also extremely strong, though not
iail. They take a great delight IN dress,
old and young alike, and show excellent
taste in the choice of the many bright col
ors With which they embroider their
clothes.
Every woman weayes her own linen
on a hand loo mthat each has in her
Primitive bat cosy .nud-fut.
1.-THE Servians do not wear a national
costume. like the other Balkan races. and
each peasant girl tries her best to make
her dresses like the western fashioned
garments he has seen when visiting the
market town. As can easily be imagined,
the effect is often highly amusing
The Servian women do not wear mats;
they Grape a prettily colored silk shawl
over their heads in the Italian manner.
''They are passionately fond of thei
children, who look the queerest little
things imaginable with their thick black
hair and lovely dark eyes. They lun
around the villages in one tiny garment,
kind of little skirt of almost Transparent.
embroidered hand woven muslin.
.These garments are so durable that
they are HANDED down from one genera
ton to another.
About the only fault I have to find is
that the Servian woman uses Injurious
cosmetics containing quantity OF white
lead, so freely that she ruins her really
beautiful natural complexion, and her
skin shrivels up and her teeth drop out.
THE result is that when she is 80 she
looks nearer 80.
But the women are amazingly proud
and independent. A servian maidservant
is an unheafd of thing, because a glr
would never cream OF doing any mental
v DIRK for money in strangers house,
though in her own home she will take
part in the hardest manual labor
zone of the most usual sights in Ser
Wan Village Is a strappng peasant girl
helping her father, brother or husband in
building OF farming and carrying with
sase hodful OF bricks that no British
sbriciSlayer would care to tackle, or a loa
eli produce that would make a covent
Garden porter gasp.
mo signs of poverty are seen in the
villages, for each man owns his house
and PLOT Of land, and even If a family
were starving they would not show it,
and would refuse help were it offered.
Every Seryian gin, even the poorest,
has dovry, which consists OF gold CONS
ilcrced ana strung on necklaces, which
she wears ever ytime she goes out. These
are called Quota, and many girls wear
rs many as 40 to 50 of these necklaces
often representing as much as 600 or
G30J II says much for the sanctity in
which Servisn women are held that an
attempt at theft is unknown, though Ii
would be quite easy to snatch one of these
yalual les from girls neck.
"N hen a Servian man is mourning the
death of a relative or friend he goes
about without head covering of any kind,
so should the war continue the few men
left in the villages may all be walking in
The streets bareheaded."