The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1921-08-18
MISS OLIVE SEWEL
WRITES OF SERBIA
WELFARE WORKER HAVING
UNUSUAL EXPERIENCE IN
RECLAMATION SERVICE.
ENJOYS HER PARTISAN VISIT
FATHERS PICK OUT PROSPEC.
TIVE HUSBANDS FOR THE
SERBIAN FAIR SEX

Miss Olive Sewell, the young Sank
Centre lady who as member of the
American Red Cross, is serving at
present with the Serbian Welfare
Board in Serbia, writes the following
interesting letter of conditions in that
country as she found them:
Dear People:
This is my first real letter since
leaving home. | wrote notes to
some OF the children from Paris, and
sent them novelty handkerchiefs and
every day l promised myself that I
would write a regular letter to you
all, but someway it hasn't been done.
"Was glad when my sailing
date arrived. The Ryndarn, Hol-
land American boat, is small in COM
parison to other liners of the same
company but was a good traveller and
comfortable. The weather was cold
and windy most of the way over and
l never felt better in my life than on
that trip. There were two other nur--
ses, Miss McGown and Miss Cof-
fey and eight social service women
in our party. William Allen White,
a very noted surgeon and remark
ably fine N. Y. c., business man, all
made themselves agreeable to us and
the journey was short one.
We reached Paris on June 7th, and
reported at General Headquarters.
There I met any number of old ac-
quaintances from the : Polish Conn
mission and we renewed our old ex.
periences together. 1t was wonder-
fully comfortable in Paris and we en-
joyed immensely the museums, re-
newed our acquaintance with Mona
Lisa of the inscrubable smile, had
| tea in several old hang-outs, visited
| the Latin Quarter and TAXED to our
hearts content.
One night we decided to go to the
/" Cinema" and the first one we saw
was Eddie Polo in the "King of the
Circus"
|. On the Champs Elysee, Charles
Ray was being shown and Mary Pick
| ford, the sweetheart of the world, is
having as great a run as ever.
| AS to styles, skirts are certainly
getting longer, they are not decided
/ ~ long as yet, but are at the very
least to the shoe tops. By fall they
will reach the ankles and will be
very full. The most extreme models
are being shown now, Grey is the
popular color in Paris as at home and
saw. the most exquisite tailored
suits for women that have even
seen.
"We left Belgrade on the Simplon
Orient Express on the night Of the
10th, going by way Of Switzerland
through the famous Simplon tunnes
into Italy by way OF Milan, then
Venice, then Trieste and finally TO
Belgrade. We entered Serbia early
on Sunday morning, (the 12th) but
were held up at the border for sever
al hours. We all got CT ---a'ked
the track and tried to find out what
was wrong. Finally our American
Speaking Serb told us thai 70 had
the private car of the Crow Prince
of Serbia on our train and where we
crossed the border irto his own coun-
sry he decided that ne wanted to get
out and stretch so the railway sched-
ule had to stor ,,-,t:' - was ready TO
travel on. We tried to catch a
glimpse of his royal bjphness. prince
Alexander, Regent of Serbia. brit we
were unsuccessful. He was just re-
turning from England where, ac-
cording to rumor, he was seeing AFTER
a matrimonial alliance with the prin-
cess Mary.
aKing Peter, Alexander's fother is
homeless invalid, and n---r-d der is
really the ruler of the country.
throne has been offered him, but UNI
til his father dies he says he viii re-
main Regent.
eve reached, Belgrade at Midnight
but owing to some misunderstanding
gwe were not met and there We were.
three. lone women who couldn't speak
the language, set upon by not less
than twenty porters and carriage men
who fell upon our baggage and diyld-
ed it among themselves. We flnaliy
reached the carriage linz ard selected
one from the least vcluble drivers
who fortunately spoke Frenchs and
we told him to drive US to the Serb
ian King Hotel. After traversing
half the town through the most dis
reputable cafe districts we came at
last to the hotel only to find that It