Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1914 — ACCORDED A HIGH POSITION [ARTICLE]

ACCORDED A HIGH POSITION

Women of Servia, Well Educated and Able, Are Companions of Their Husbands and Brothers.

There is no country in the world where women occupy a more dignified position in the home than Servia The Servian idea is quite different from that of the Turk, who keeps his women behind" shut doors or the German, whose ideal woman is a hausfrau. In Servia the woman is the companion of the man.

A mhn is responsible for his unmarried sisters, and throughout the Balkan states it is considered rather a breach of etiquette for him th marry before his older sister. No Servian girl would feel she coula hold up her head in society unless she could speak four languages. There is hardly a Servian woman who cannot play some musical instrument. Embroidery, painting, drawing, and sculpture are all studied. Politics is a popular feature among women. Servian women are very domesticated and the highest ladies pay personal attention to trivial matterr of housekeeping. There are two women doctors practicing in Belgrade, and several women teachers. Bnt public opinion, on the whole, is rather against women entering the labor arena.