The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-08

lQlScONeI1SS, dIlC ! SAW u6IO d WlOlC iOOllI
filled with gold cups, gold masks and gold
plates, together with iewelry and other
gold articles which, all told, must in the
gold alone be worth several big American
! fortunes These things were all found at
Mycen8, not many miles across the Gulf
of Corinth from Delphos, and some arch
biologists suppose that under the present
site of Delphi are works equally valuable.
! Delphi was offered to the French for exca-
walton on condition that they would agree
to certain treaty with Greece. This
| treaty has, 1 am told, fallen through, and
| Delphi may yet be bought by the Ameri
cans. A number of American scientists
are thinking seriously of making excava-
lions here. If they get the grant of the
government, however, they will have to
pay for the removal of the village. which
now stands on its site, and this will. it is
supposed, cost in the neighborhood or
100000. At Delphi was
THE GREAT ORACLE
Of the Grecian cult of Apollo, and it was
| here that some of the greatest of the
Grecian games were celebrated. The
Grecian oracles and their temples had
great treasures and the temple of Apollo
had, in the time of Pliny, 5000 statues.
When Sulla besieged Athens in 1886, he
paid his troops out of the treasures of
Delphi, and it may be that under this vii
lage there are pecks of gold cups and gold
vases, to say nothing of historical relics
and works of fine art.
The modern Greeks are as much inter
ested in these excavations as are the scien-
fists of Europe and America. They are
proud of their history, and there are
several gangs of men now at work on the
Acropolis. AS | drove up to the Parthe-
non yesterday, saw half dozen men dig
| ging out the dirt from the side of the hill
and carrying it away in great baskets upon
their heads. Just outside the Parthenon,
museum of the Acropolis contains number
| of new discoveries. Athens has a national
museum, which is filed with the broken
legs, arms and torsos of great statues of
the past, and the Parthenon itself is
guarded by Greek soldiers, who see that
its wonderful beauty is not damaged by
relic-hunting travellers. There is an
academy of science in Athens, which
stands on the street of the university just
below Schliemann's house, and in front of
this building, on great pillars, are
This academy is intended for Grecian and
foreign savants, and it is modelled on the
style of the great Greek buildings of old
| Athens.
The university of Athens is worth notice
same style as the universities of Europe.
The majority of its students are preparing
! themselves to be lawyers, doctors and poll
ticians, and the professions are already
overcrOwded. What Athens is to do with
all her professional men in the future it is
hard to say. The people are very bright,
but there is not enough business for them.
AS to other schools, Greece has a good
system of education. There are common
schools everywhere, and attendance is
compulsory. The ArsakiOn has 500 girl
students who are studying the higher
branches, and there is an American Epis-
copal school here which teaches the poorer
class of girls the more common studies.
There are private schools in the different
cities of Greece, and great many of the
young Greeks are sent TO Europe to be
educated. The people are, as rule, well
posted, and those of the better class speak
several languages. 1t is not uncommon to
meet a young lady who talks English,
French, Italian and Greek with equal
! facility, and the Greeks believe that the
modern Greek pronunciation is the same
as that of Socrates and Plato. The Greeks
! make good political speeches, but
THERE ARE no DEnosrRESEs
not an Aeschylus nor ii Homer, but to
Judge from the newspapers, there is no lack
of modern Greek poets, and there is a
| Greek comedian here named KOromila, who
has written some plays which have been
acted in the theatres, and some Of which
have been played before the king.
Even in the country districts You will
find women who are posted on the Greek
poets, and there are few Greek youths
who have not read what we call the
Greek classics. The country people of
Greece are far different from those of the
cities 1t is outside of Athens that you
find the picturesque costumes, and il is
here that you see the fine Greek features
of the past. The girls about Corinth have
faces which remind you of some of the
noted statues, and ] have seen near Athens
girls who could pose for Minervas or for
the goddess of love l have seen several
Apollos in petticoats and fez caps, and
saw face the other day which made me
think of that of Achilles. The costume of
the Greek farmer and that of one of the
regiments of the Greek army here in
Athens is the same. 1t may be called
THE GREEK NATIONAL COSTUME,
,, and it is the queerest outfit YOU will fine
outside of Korea. If you viii take the tall
est and leanest man of your acquaintance
and put him in a short, roundabout vest
| and white, ballet girl skirt; if you will put
a soft, red, rimlesS cap on the side of his
head and let the long, black tassel of this
fall down over his ear and then clothe his
feet in long. red slippers, which turn up a
the toes, YOU will have some idea of how
1 these guady country Greeks look YoU
, must, however make the vest gorgeous
with brass, silver or gold embroidery, anC
J | it must have long sleeves which hang down
from the wrist. On the toe OF each rec
slipper there must be red tassel rs big as
/ chestnut burr and of the same shape, and
bright leggins must be wrapped tight
around the Sims The white skirts mus
as though starched. They must be Sc
many that the breadth of the bottom will
be at least a foot thick, and the weareI
must flirt them as he moves with gay anG
, giddy air If you would have him like d
Greek soldier you must give him great
belt and fill this with old pistols and
knives. You must put sword ut his side
and a gun in his hand. You mush shave
off all but his moustache, and give him q
strut like that of drum major when the
band is reviewed by the mayor.
THE WOMEN ARE DIFFERENT.
Their costume is beautiful one, and they
Look bewftching. Tall. straight and well
formed, they have large bright eyes, regu
lar features and a wealth of brown OF
black hair which hangs in braids dowI
their backs. They wear in the fields {
single gown of linen which falls from theil
, lnecks to their feet. and over this they have
: a long sleeveless sack of white wool bord
! cred with stripes of black. l have seer
> some of them upon fete days, and l ATTENDED
+ a great national dance near Athens. The
. girls had on their fine dresses, and thel
came out in costumes of silk embroidered
with gold Their heads were covered witt
fine silk wells, the ends of which wer'
/, woven with stripes of gold, and wer
I wound around their faces so as to frame
them in silk. They had on the long skirt
| of the week day, but many of these wer
! embroidered half the way to the knee, anC