The Republican journal., 1913-10-23

the ruins at Athens. Greece, have made
an important discovery. On the oath of
August, A. D. 1918, on the Acropolis, in
the museum of antiquities, l discovered
the original of the hobble skirt of this
year of grace. some twenty-five hundred
years old. Of course in case the wearer
wishes to make dash, or is from some
cause obliged to beat hasty retreat. it
cannot be claimed to have the advantage
of the wind.defying crinoline. of such
audacious amplitude that it used to force
me in boyhood to the side Of the road,
to escape ENHANCEMENT, but that is not
strictly in point. The skirt tends to
point rather than to bulge downward,
and proves the genuineness of the origi-
nal of which l claim the honor of dis
covery, as we'll as the general truth that
all fashions tend to run from one ex-
IRENE to the other as certainly as time
runs and the centuries tell tales both
truthful and idle.
Away with this nonsense. Enough,
too much, has been written of names and
dates on old stone. On the south side of
the Acropolis, some $50 feet down, are
the ruins of two old theatres, where the
Greek drama had its rise and its fall.
On the north side are traced the tounda-
lions of many small temples, shrines and
statues. The Acropolis in the days of
its glory must have been wonder in
adornment. The museum back of the
Parthenon contains much of the ancient
art of this spot. | returned to the
Acropolis the next afternoon, an hour
before sunset. 1t was Sunday. In the
outskirts of the city | made out the
Byzantine architecture of one or two
Mosques, where homage is paid to Mo-
hamet by his devout adherents. Most
of the Christian churches were of the
Greek faith and order. Their priests,
as seen on the streets, do not impress
me as having the breadth of culture that
do the priests of the church of Rome in
Italy. Their garb is black their hair is
long. A stove pipe hat without rim is
worn on the head. They cross themselves
much. They count their beads. Many
Greek business men do that. The boys
marked for the priesthood are not allow
ed to have their hair cut Coming down
from the Acropolis. | crossed over to the
Areopagus Mars Hill-but few rods
away to the west, and assembled the
steps cut in the stone that st. Paul
climbed when Athens had 500 years of
history behind her and was in decline,
the Roman power having supplanted
that of Greece St. Paul. addressing
the Athenians there, said a much great
err thing than that usually accredit-
ed him in complimenting them as being
very religious. On Mars Hill | quoted
him in this that he there said; 'God has
appointed a day in which he will judge
the world in righteousness by that Man
whom He hath ordained" | added: that
day-historic day or age-has been on
these nineteen hundred years; and as
sure as anything in human history is
sure, the standards of the ethical teach
ing of Jesus have slowly been becoming
the standards of just judgment in the
world. So it shall ever be, till ultimate
truth, simple but fundamental and vital,
shall have ushered in the Golden Age of
Man. Christian sects may we'll weary
of phylacterics and strike for central
truth. 1.-THE kingdom of heaven is as
little child. The kingdom of God is
within you. The pure in heart shall see
Cod" Righteousness, Purity, Peace
and Good will are cardinal. No sect, no
civil court, can divide over their pre-
ferred claims Wars and political unrest
cannot cease, the Golden Age of Man,
cannot come without their enforcement.
Why not get down to the point, grim old
world? 1t was old, wrnkled and CHASTITY
1900 years ago. Caesar could not make
it young again. These maNims, as pure
as bubbling springs. as clear as the light
of sun and stars, can reiuvenate it, If put
in force.
| | witnessed the return of the Greek
King, Constantine, from 10 weeks at the
front in the war against Bulgarian bar
barism and territorial greed that followed
the war of the allies against Turkey. A
fourth of the Greek army and 10000
civilians received him with boom of can
non and prolonged acclaim as he landed
from the war fleet at the Piraeus, and
made his way in an open auto through
miles of richly decorated streets to his
palace in Athens. l was proud to wear
the emblem, badge with pictures OF
the King and Queen and the Greek flag,
on my confront. The next two days
his brother, Prince George, and Dan
ish Prince, voyaged with me from the