The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-11

IL wouldn't be such bad idea for me to
think up 'mething to cay to go with the
pictures.
Il had never been any nearer to Greece
much by that consideration. didn't
stand in much fear that the Spoiianites
would be stickers for the exact figures as
to ancient and modern Greece.
And, as a matter OF fact, they weren't;
The lecture l gave them was all right, and
went through with clatter:
Il spread it on pretty thick about the
conquering hosts OF Alexander OF Macedon.
and / let them have plenty Of the isles Of
Greece, the isles Of Greece, where burning
think I handed them that quotation no
less than eighteen times during the lecture,
just TO fill In the desert spaces Sappho
was Away a great favorite of NINE any
Il mentioned, too, quite a number of
times, how the mountain looked on
Marathon and Marathon looked on the sea-
and logged in .Aspasia and her friend
Pericles, and did the best knew to white
wash their little unoonventionalities.
we'll as to Socrates, and kind O. pushed
them and aroused their admiration by
dwelling upon the peripatio school Of phi
losophy-they didn't know what the dickens
! was talking about, and when lecturer
gets an audience into that state OF mind
every tick Of the chronometer.
Then | brought the thing along to the
sacking OF Athens, and the placing of the
Roman yoke upon the Greeks, and when the
slides began to exhibit modern Greece be-
came poetical, In order to hide my dense ig-
norance OF everything pertaining to modern
Greece, rhapsodizing about the mountain
scenery and the Ionian islets and the Egean
wavelets and all that sort OF thing getting
away with it, too, so successfully that, l
4 4 Iii, fnnt nd hoo riv,n NJ he
end of the lecture.
II counted up the gate receipts after they
went, and found that there was $3.50 left
for me- after paying oil expenses. went
back to the hotel in a fever and fervor OF
emulation
"A squat, we'll dressed, curly haired
| man, with a swarthy skin and a thick black
mustache, was talking with the landlord
when l strolled into the hotel office. The
stranger turned and smiled very agree
able smile when he saw me.
I congratulate you, my friend ne said
| to me, holding out his hand, I listened
| to your lecture. 1t was'-and, as he was q
foreigner, he halted for the word i'm
mense. When return to my own country
I'm going to give an illustrated lecture
III You've been In Tibet, taen' said l to
oh, no., he replied. still smiling that
engaging smile. That's Why I'm going
| to lecture about It,, and then the drinks
, were on me, and promptly bought :,
"That squat, sv arthy man as the Greek
diplomat John Gennadius, who had come
to the United States from Greece with q
special mission in Washington In connection
with the duty on currants, few months
before He was travelling around to gel
look at the country, and he had quite
accidentally dropped in to listen to my
! maunderings about Greece, his native
land-and Gennadius was then esteemed c
pretty shrev.d authority on ancient Greece
while his knowledge OF modern Greece
was unsurpassed among living Greeks!
They wanted me to repeat that lecture
In Spokane, but I couldn't see 1t. The
thought OF how Gennadius had sat bacl
there in the rear OF the op'rey house, chuck
ling in his wiry mustache, let me dow
and out forever as a lecturer, and the mem
DRY Of his saturnine grin is nightmare
with me yet"