The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-07
Women Doing Their Part
for Their Country in
War Times.
WORN OF THE CIRCLE
OF SERNIAN SISTERS
Their Tremendous Task of
RchabilitatiOn---Ask for
Farm Tools.

j American 10y birth, a Servian
hy marriage. who has come
hack 10 her native land to ask help in
rehah.Itatug her adopted country. Be
sides seeds Sarvia as a result OF war
ais, needs agricultural Implements
and grain for immediate consumption.
NM. Grouitvh. who Is the wife Of
the Scryan Permanent Under Secre-
tsry of Foreign Anairs, Is accom-
panied ON her mission here los Miss
Helen Losm.tch. daughter of the for
mer Minister Of Agriculture and Com
mercc of Seryia and sister-in-law Of
he present holder of that office. Miss
Losan.tch Is a very attractive young
woman black eyed with heavy wavy
ba.k hair and Is kccnly interested
in the past, present and future Of her
country
I'VE have many womens organiza-
lions IN Servla; il ~ very different
from Austria, where women are for
hidden by law To form any societies"
said Miss l,osan.tch TO SUN re-
porter "One that am particularly in
terested in is the Circle Of Scrvan
Sisters. organized some fourteen years
ago. Its chief object is to help and
protect old people, immigrants from
other countries, who prefer living in
Seryla because II is free land. Also
whenever there are foundations or
other Calamities In any part Of the
country We send clothes and food and
moray To- the sufferers.
six years ago when Austria an
neyoI Bosnia and HERZEGOVINA Servia
nd hlr "a
nursCs and no Red Cross society the
C.rI- - Sar,iau Sisters determined
10 supply the lack So they organized
SIN weeks course in nursing and first
aid with our best doctors and surgeons
in charge. Since then the courses have
been repeated each year for two or
three weeks. For a country which had
no trained nurses this was a wonder
ful help.
Three years or so ago when war
with Turkey broke out the Circle Of
Servau Sisters had $1,000 in the
treasury. We set TO work promptly
and organized a hospital of one hum
bred beds at Belgrade. We obtained
the use Of a schooihouse, but it had no
water. no electric lights. no conven-
fences Of any sort SO we women had
TO get IL INTO shape. We painted It all
white and many Of the women ac-
tually performed the manual labor.
No one felt herself too fine to paint or
do any necessary work. Women even
carried the wounded on stretchers from
one building to the other.
TT was quite dreadful when the
first wounded arrived One day the
sanitary chief sent the or5er, You
must he ready To receive 100 wounded
men at o'clock this evening II was
no easy thing to dress the wounds and
make dinner for 800 men on such
short notice but the work was sc-
comp,Ished wonderfully well.
This hospital-M Nine. Grouitch
helped US a great deal with it-turned
out to be one of the best reserve
hospitals in our country, so the sur
seons said. In fact the soldiers were
almost spoiled, as they had every pos
slhle comfort and even luxury. we
had many donations from Serbs living
In Austria, including socks, provisions
and money Often a whole village
would club together and send us q
check. But it was a difficult and even
dangerous matter to get anything to
rs the officials at the Austrian from
tiers We're very disagreeable and en-
AHMED all luggage and even the
purses of travellers so closely that
our friends had to resort to trickery
10 help US one woman, the daughter
OF a Servlan clergyman living in Aus
ira, brought us a large sum Of money
concealed in her clothes
"One thing that happened during
the war showed how much the men
mad come to rely upon the women
My uncle who was chief of the sani'
tary department and so had charge
OF arrangements for the wounded sol
d.ers telegraphed after the first great
battle. to Nine Lukovitch, president
or the sisters, at II o'clock at night
10 ask her to have some tea room!
or milk and soup stations established
~ intervals along the railroad lines a
PAGES far from towns. Nine. Luke
Wch started out at o'clock the mex
morning and in twenty-four hour!
She had organized three. So wher
INC sanitary trains-the trains bear
Ing me wounded soldiers to the hos
pils stopped on their way the Ser
van women in charge OF these sta
''rs gave them hot milk, soup, tea
n'e'i and Jam is a national disi
IN S"Na. Tho soldiers also haC
Pi"n'" Of fresh drinking water
'"rm" for tho very weak, tobacco fo
l"n. wanted Z.
'o are doing jus. the same thing
oN'nf 'A!s war. ! have been reall!
surprised TO see tho interest, the &C
'E'' AND the sacrifices of the womei
'''.s drcssmlkcrs and others VIII,
ar" earning their living. Many .
U'm have given up their position
hN' Gone to nurse the wounded or l.
row '"r them, or do any work 70
"h'N they were needed.
w" aow have n hospital at Mis-
~ '.2'' A,aS, and our sub committee
pave SOME six hospitals in other dis
t.'ls with from 100 to $50 beds each
We are also conducting seven or eigh
Yea rooms along the transport lines.
MWo. LukuVitCh our president, ha