Photo by D. W. Iddings 



A BULGARIAN FARM SCe;nE •' AT THE WELI, 



All of the Balkan lands are agricultural. Manufacturing, however, is primitive and of 

 little volume. Outside of the larger towns, for the most part, the people have hardly learned 

 to need products that cannot be fashioned by the family in the home. Cloth and a few 

 simple household implements of metal constitute the whole demand upon civilization of the 

 average Balkan peasant family. 



first to learn. The Turkish girls, to use 

 their own idiom, "sat" most of the time 

 when not studying ; the Bulgarian, rather 

 more active in physique, as they ex- 

 pressed it, "walked" a good deal. But 

 we were amused to find how they used 

 this word for all sorts of locomotion, as 

 when Anka once said that at home she 

 walked every day, but generally in a car- 

 riage ! 



Dolls are almost unknown by Oriental 

 girls and no games exist for them. AVe 

 felt as if we were inaugurating a very 

 educational movement when we intro- 



duced these sedentary girls to tennis, 

 basket ball, and running games. If the 

 Balkan youth might be quickly trained to 

 play, perhaps some of the northern qual- 

 ities that go with "playing the game" 

 might be acquired by them. The Bul- 

 garian boys at Robert College have 

 shown fine aptitude for sports. 



THE CHIEF CITY 



To the traveler who looks for pictur- 

 esqueness, Philipopolis is far more at- 

 tractive than Sofia. Built on seven 

 sharply pointed hills, it is very effective 



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