The chronicle=news., 1914-08-18
,Serv,iiau,,, Women
Will Battle
for Nation

for Nation
Giant Helpseets Of the Serbs Are
Afire With Patriotism.
From the Chicago Tribune. ,rDt
New. York. Aug. 1s.-' 'Servias
war strength may be given as 24o,-
OUO. but that figure must be doubled,
for Ill Servian women can and Will
bear arms says Princess Lazaro-
Observation-Disclosures. the American
wife OF the last descendant OF the
old Servian kings. Even now I have
no doubt they are drilling as the
Aontenegrin women did during the
Balkan campaign. and looking over
their underground storehoiises, for
they have always had charge OF the
commissary department of the army
For every Servian soldier who falls
there will be wife or a sister to
take up his gun,
They are wonderful creatures.
tall and almost overmuscled from the
outdoor work they have done for gen.
erations. They are often very beau
tiful. And always they are afire
with patriotism.
"In the great wars Of the past
when the men have fought the Turks
in front. the women have fired their
guns at the Austrians in the rear
They have fought side by side with
the men. worn the same uniforms,
undergone the same hardships, and
in the end received the same honors
from their country.
Perhaps it is because these wom-
en- have fought and died beside the
men that there Is no need for suff-
rags I'm Servfa. Long before Magma
Charts was thought OF the queen sat
in the servian parliament with her
h1sband. and when the King issued
q proclamation he began It:
p {" Il. having taken counsel with my
dear wife. the council Of state. and
the national assembly. do hereby de-
cree ~ & N'
i "Todirs II a 'w6MAxf VI considered
tho moSe able member Of one Of the
great family groups OF zadrugas into
which Servia Is orgaiifzed she Is un-
hesitatihgly elected its head. Then
II is her basiness to oversee the work
Of the fields which belong to the fam
lily and its branches in common and
the work Of the household as we'll.
The men obey her unhesitatingly.
When man is head of the fam
lily his wife oversees the household
work. There is the great central
house. with its Immense never dying
IRE in the middle Of the central room.
Oxen and sheep are often roasted
whole over the oak logs and hams
and pieces Of sheep meat are smoked
In the great chimney which over
hangs the fire like an extinguisher
above a candle. v.
There is' much cooking to be done,
for the sons and cousins and their
wives come In from their little cot
tages or voyats scattered round about
for the evening meal. The women
no the work in groups about the
great fire and some one plays on the
one-stringed fiddle Of the country.
while another sings one of the old
ballads of Servian victory. AT inter-
walls the young people dance the
wonderful spirited Servian dances,
For refreshments there is a great cal
dron Of green corn boiling on the fire.
"It is these songs and dances. with
the stories of the old days told to
the children around the fire. with the
good food and the free education,
fhof ,,nf,a {hn Coryiono tha ,,,aul..
ful. indomitable people they are. The
Upright lives they lead may contrib
hte something to their moral fiber,
for there is practically no illegiti-
macy in the country. while just
across the border where the Serbs are
crushed under Austrian tyranny It
amounts tod o per cent OF the popula-
tion.
t'"where every man has his own
interest In the land Of the Zadruga'
there is no poverty. The boy becomes
his fathers partner at birth, though
he is expected to do his little share
of the work. Outside OF that his
time Is his own. The land Is won
derfully fertile. the soil has never
needed fertilizer and the great oak
forests supply a mass of acorns that
makes Servian pork known the world
over. -s --- - - 49,.
THE men are. water-drinking
race. Now and then they take a
glass of pruae brandy. but not often.
They take their pleasures singing
and laughing among their great.
happy families. Each new baby is
welcomed as an added sunbeam In
the great Zadruga. That is why
Servia has been able to offstand Tur-
key for these many centuries. Do
you wonder that Servian women are
ready to fight to preserve such.
home life, as theirs?" @ a.
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