Photo by E. M. Newman 

 ROUMANIAN GIRLS ARE GREAT BELIEVERS IN SIGNS 



The Roumanian peasant girl determines whether she and her lover are destined to get 

 married or not by taking two pig bristles and laying them on a cleanly swept hearth. If the 

 heat causes the bristles to curve toward one another, they will be married ; if away from one 

 another, they will never marry. 



summer, has practically nothing to do in 

 winter. During the idle months they 

 spend for daily necessities all they earned 

 when work was plentiful. 



This periodic derangement of receipts 

 and expenditures is intensified by the in- 

 flux of thousands of Serb and Bulgar 

 workmen coming in response to the de- 

 mand for help for the harvest and for 

 any unusually heavy construction work 

 in the larger cities. The earnings of these 

 itinerant laborers are sent out of the 

 country. 



UNIVERSAL MILITARY SERVICE 



It is rather strange that the compulsory 

 and universal military service has not 

 stimulated manufactures in Roumania as 

 it has in the Germanic countries, whose 

 military systems the Roumanians have so 

 closely followed. It is not because this 

 service is distasteful to the Roumanian ; 

 for while he does not have by nature a 

 war-like spirit, his great love for his 

 country makes him ready to strike and 

 receive blows in her defense. 



All young men between the ages of 19 

 and 21, unless physically incapacitated, 

 receive at home or in the schools pre- 

 liminary military training. At twenty- 

 one the active service with the army be- 

 gins with two years' drill in the infantry, 

 followed by three years in the other arms 

 of the service. After that, for five years, 

 the full-fledged soldier is listed in the first 

 line of reserves, then in the second line, 

 until he reaches the age of thirty-eight, 

 when he is transferred to the territorials, 

 or militia, where, during the next four 

 years, he must stand ready for a call to 

 the colors. 



It is true that all availables are not 

 called out for the entire periods named, 

 but those exempted by lot are listed in 

 the supplementary service and must, 

 under the guidance of competent officers, 

 be prepared to respond to any emergency. 



ARMY THE COUNTRY'S PRIDE 



The roster of the standing army calls 

 for two hundred and ninety thousand 

 men, armed with Mannlicher rifles. 



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