The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-07

done magnificent work. Even when
she received a telegram telling Of the
death of her favorite nephew. an OFF,
Ger in the army. whom she had
brought up in her home since he
was years old. she did not relax her
activities in the least but kept think
ing of more things 10 do for our peo-
Pile She didn't give up To her grief
or stay AT home from the work at all.
Mime. Delpha Ivanitch, the secre-
tary of the executive committee OF the
Servian Sisters. is another of the most
prominent women Of Seryia. She was
in Albania during the Balkan wars
and did fine things there, nursing the
wounded brought from SCutarl, get
ting them aboard ships and sending
them to Salonica and so into Servia,
whose frontier is just one hour dis
tant Many of the worst cases Of the
sick and wounded she took into her
own home to care for. Now she Is
at Skoplje, working there in one OF
the branch hospitals established by
branch OF the Circle of Servian Sis
ters.
Another organization, the Servian
Ladies Society, established some
/ thirty years ago by Nine. Milovuk
and patronized by Queen Natalie,
wife OF King Milan Of the ObrenovitCh
| dynasty. Is composed chiefly OF the
older women-my grandmother belongs
to thPt Its chief object has been the
estaU 'hment OF schools for girls of
the p, yer classes all over Servia. 1t
/ conducts about thirty-s!x now,
81, grl. vfrlS
! dimentary education, and are also
| taught to sew and embrOider. Really
a secondary object might be said to
| be the revival and preservation of
| the beautiful national embroidery and
designs.
1.-THE society also keeps a shop at
| Belgrade, where these embrolderles
are sold. Every Friday morning tho
peasant women dress up in their
best and come TO town to sell their
| handicraft They get their money
also materials for new work and or
ders for it. They usually bring in
| fresh eggs TO sell too; and all the
money that they get is their very
own-that is tradition and custom
their men would never think of TAX
/
as husbands taking the earnings of
their wives does not exist in Servla'
but that applies 10 a higher class of
people; it is one OF the evils stten-
dant upon a higher civilization
What do they buy with the
money? Oh, powder for their faces,
artificial flowers for their hair and
things OF that sort very often.
THE Servian national costumes are
beautiful and although the women in
the cities wear conventional Euro
pean dress now, nearly every one has
one OF these national costumes for
dances In the villages, however, the
people all wear them and the country
sldn is very picturesque and beauti-
full. particularly on a Sunday after
noon in summer, when the peasants
dressed in their gay best, the richer
ones with chains OF golden ducats
about their heads and necks and with
big pins Of gold or silver in their
hair, gather on the village green, un"
der the blue sky and dance.
81 live rather much out OF town
we have country place five hours
by mbtor from Belgrade-and ! dc
50 love to be there and to see the
peasants dancing our national dance
the Kolo. 1t Is danced in town also
in the drawing rooms, but very badly
You ought to see fifty peasants, young
men and girls together, dancing
around, then taking the steps forward
and backward all together to the
music OF flutes and pipes=yes. bag
pipes, similar to those OF the Scot
fish Highlandcrs. The whole village
turns out on Sunday afternoons, thu
young folks dance and make love
while the older women gossip and tho
men talk politics,
but ] am DEPRESSING. This Ser
/ Wan Ladies Society, which has estab-
Hshed the sewing schools also get,
J out a newspaper, Or rather, "A week.,