The farmer and mechanic., 1915-04-20
BACK TO SUNSHINE AGAIN
Wake Forest Professor Goes
over The Old Ruins and Re-
calls The Glory of Greece,
and How Time Has Dealt
UnkindIy With Masterpieces
0f Architecture
special 10 The News and Observed.

Special 10 The News and obseryerl.
Wake Forest. April 17.-"White
streets, white walls, white dust Ev-
erything is white except the people
& saunter along towards the Acropo-
is indeed one could not be in
hurry The sidewalks the numbered
with chairs and little tables, at which
the Athenian politicians-and all
Athenians are politicianS-are drink
ing coffee, reading the latest paper,
and talking!-thus Dr. Sledd writes
II his first impression of Athens. Dr.
Sledd has just arrived at Athens
from Naples and where he will make
his headquarters for the next few
weeks. Continuing he writes, Feel
ing is at white heat now over the
designation Of the great minister
NerizeloS and the refusal of the King
10 declare war against Turkey.
The Way the Greeks Talk
y sit down at an empty table and
order a cup of coffee. Two worthy
citizens beside me are engaged in a
war Of words which in America
would mean fight in five minutes!
What If each does attack the other
on The breast with his finger. thrust
list under nose, bend forward with
herce rolling eyes, grip by coat front.
team back in chair, staring with
kuotted brow; gesticulate, asSevcrate.
demonstrate. objusculate. The pa-
ger each holds in hand is appealed
to, held UP before each others eyes
with curving fingers pointed at some
telling paragraph. The names OF
papers are in fiercely large black
Greek type, but | have forgotten the
Greek alphabet. \ priest. passes, not
The Hat hated, smooth shaVen super
servlceable, mock meek, woman leer-
Ing, priest of Rome; but the priest
"t The Greek church--a tall, bewhis.
kcred. bespectacled, manly looking
fellow with a certain statelnesS il
his bearing, and hint of the Orien,
n his patriarchal, black robed ana
tai black fez-like cap. He is mar
81 family, OF one wife, of Legitimate
children. lie is appealed to by tn
warning politicians, by the crows
thai gathers around him, gesticulat
ihE. chattering. The priest lets fal
few words aud goes on his way
and the two squabblers,- putting thei
oeddS together, converse in low mys
'erious voices. Something the prizes
has said must have come like
bucket of water on two fightin
cocks. And ] go on my way, lea.vin
'ht two still engaged in. low voice
conversation 45s
The sun is burning bu- I re5oic
'u IT, after four months Of rain an
'oid. 1t grieves me to think of ho'
much time l have lost since Noven
ner in trying to keep warm. So
Keep on uhe sunny side of the stree
and long for a spot of soft green tut
ON which ! can sprawl and WalloW
me- sunshine. But spots of verdul
itr' rare la Athens and if you find OF
'-"&re how you Wallow,
hc Great Temple, of Jupiter.
- follow the street, only knov
ln- u / follow it far enough it wi
iead me TO the Acropolis, But hei
+ome lofty columns to, the left. Q
he temple Of Jupiter Olynpu
Nnd ! eros sthe dusty street al
stand amid the splendid ruin We
might Livy call it the most. magnl
"ent temple ever begun in honor of
Sud. The columns are fully SIX
'eet high and six feet in diamete
thirteen Of them standing togethe
and two apart, with yet another
'n- prone, and splintered and sha
tered. There were more than hu
"red OF them, We are told, arrang
~ double rows i'll front and rear. a.
IA triple rows ut the end. Inc pie
'orm on which the temple stood,
sui whole and sound and the hoi
masonry moves to wonder even
,hese days of giant undertakings.
rs nearly seven hundred feet 10
and over two hundred b. DAD. Ire
nave been planted about its bord'
ana even now it is a favorlte pi
place for children: some half do2
Oootblacks. seated i'll a circle.
playing a game of chance with
piece of bone. They seem grea
delighted when a stranger passes a
watches the game and in vain
tempt to explain. GoOd-humol
chaps they are. but so dirty.
Athenians ever battle? Even the "
dressed ladies smell of cologne &
perspiration!
The Home Of the Drama.
"Gut [ pass on and here / am W