Show in the servian home the servian is seen at his best beat in family life nowhere la is the blood tie so strong as among the serbs gerbs or reverence tor for parents more real when a servian peasant marries he does not leave home but brings his wife into the or family tribe often comprising as many as a hundred persons ruled over by a family chief this chief keeps the money makes the purchases and decides tho the minutest details of family life and on his death a successor is appointed by the vote of the grownup grown up males of the md the whole family does not always of course live in one building but it lives together in adjoining houses sometimes occupying a whole street imagine enduring the proximity and perpetual criticism of such an array army of mother in law aunts cousins etc and you gain some idea of the general equanimity of the servian temperament |