SERVIAN WOMEN
There is no country in tho world where women occupy a more dignified or honoured position in the home than Servia. The Servian idea is quite different from that of the Turk, who keeps his women behind ehut doors, or the German, whose ideal woman is a good hausfrau. In Servia the woman is tb* companion of tho man. A man is responsible for his unmarried sisters, and throughout the Balkan States it is considered rather a breach of etiquette for him to marry before his older sister. No Servian girl would feel she could 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. Servian women are very domesticated, and tho higheet ladies pay personal attention to trivial matters of housekeeping. There arc two women doctors practising in Belgrade, and women teachers galore. But public opinion on. the whole is rather against women onterinir the labour market.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2376, 4 February 1915, Page 2
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172SERVIAN WOMEN Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2376, 4 February 1915, Page 2
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