The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1891-10-17
Anrrent and Modern Greece.

The traveller is often rudeiy shocked hy
che contrast between the reality of the
present and the ideal picture of the ~
cient Arcadan life of tie rural districts
or the intellectual ana artistic life =
Athens But doubtless If we could i
transported back TO ancie It Greece -
should find much that would not piaese
- in the daily life Of the people A.ea
ray say " 'Tis Greece. but living Greece
no more;" It is still All enchanted land far
re No other civilized country withdraws
the visitor so far from the ordinary ron
tine of the present; no other land affords
so many suggestions of the life Of the an
clients from whom our civilization comes
am sure that understand Greek art
better because of my life for few weeks
under the Athenian sky few days in
Peloponnesus and few more In Central
Greece. gave me Il clearer comprehension
Of Greek political history The Homeric
age seems more of reality after study
of the ruins of Tiryns and Mycen@. The
pastorals Of Theocritus have new life and
meaning when the traveller hears the shep
herds pipe and rustic singers vie In amoe
bean strains. while he eats bread and milk
from the wooden bowls which his hosts
have carved.
few Of the ancient customs survive.
The lover of Homer is delighted to find
,hat the Greeks still throw back the head
to express dissent or refusal, and that the
trim maid still pours water ON the visitors
hands Some old superstitions have re-
mained. notably that of telling disturb
ing dream to the rising sun, In order that
the threatened Ill may be averted No
land is more thickly peopled with fairies
and every kind of benevolent and malig-
nant spirits than the Greece of today.
Doubtless many of the ecclesiastical Gus
toms of the present have been nodded
by the superstitions of the past.-Thomas
u Seymour In Scribner's Magazine.
rRowNINa TnE vur=-=.
And now ne reaches the platform ana
salutes the judges The crown Is hung
upon his lance's end Then slowly he
rides aloug the outskirts of the crowd,
until he comes to q carriage where sits the
lady whose colors he wears, and whose
face Is now radiant with smiles for her
knights success. Reaching her he dis
mounts and drops the crown at her feet,
thus choosing her Queen of Love and
Beauty. while the aeelamations of the
crowd attest their approval of his choice.
Meanwhile the knights who have won the
second and third places have received
smaller crowns. and hasten likewise to
bestow them upon their ladies. making
them Maids of Honor"
And now for an hour is o pause, while
the crowd breaks up into groups and dis
eusses the riding and its results AS 1t Is
growing toward evening. many seize the
opportunity to eat the lunches they have
brought with them, or are carried off by
friends to sup in the neighboring farm
houses
AZ length the bugle call rings out once
Lore and the crowd reassemble near the
stand. THE knight of the Golden Key"
calls his lady upon tho platform, while
tho Knight of Walnut Hill' and the
knight of Warsaw" follow with their
inaios of honor They are met by the
judges and by the most famous speaker
of the country. who proceeds to make .
loag and fowery grafton, ending by
cfowniag the ladies'. AMID the plaudits OF
the crowd.--R. " Graves in Detroit FrOa
Press.