The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-02-28
PART I

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ing Jack and Jane and Ladydear
and Captain Brave set out to see
Athens. They walked through the
main business streets visiting the
stores and shops and then the his
torical parts of the city-the parts
that were built centuries ago. First
of all they walked up the Acropo,
lis. This is great hill of stone.
On its level top was built by the
old Greeks the most beautiful
buildings they could design. There
the children saw acres and acres of
remains of these buildings, broken
statues. giant pillars that have
stood up for centuries and other
bits of the old Greeks handiwork.
Some of these pillars held UP the
roof of the Parthenon. This was a
wonderful temple built to Athens,
goddess of the dawn. The Greeks
built statue of the goddess, too.
1t was as high as an ordinary house
and was made of gold and ivory.
Jack and Jane saw many folk in
speeding the noted ruins. Captain
Brave explained that many of the
people the children saw probably
were students who had come from
all parts of the world to study
these structures and learn more
of the historical buildings.
The children spent most of the
morning among the marble pillars
and walls. In the afternoon they
visited one of the great UNIVERSE
ties of Athens, where the students
they had seen in the morning were
attending school. Athens is noted
for its colleges. One of them is a
girls college. To this Jack and
Jane went next and when Jane saw
the hundreds of girl students, in
Guiding almost every nationality
about which she had ever heard.
she decided that she would like to
go to school there.
Perhaps, when I'm grown up
and have gone through all the
schools in Make Believe Town |
can come back here again to
study" she said to Ladydear as
they rode away from the college.
The next day Captain Brave took
Ladydear and the children over the
country near Athens in the air.
plane. They passed over what
seemed like hundreds of islands.
Captain Brave showed the children
a chart of the. country which
showed that Greece does contain
many islands. The children noticed
that most of the land on the main
land and of the islands was noun
famous and that the farmers could
use only small part of the land.
How do the Greeks live in such
a hilly country" asked Jack.
Much of their food is brought in
from other countries" answered
Ladydear. They don't raise even
enough wheat to supply them with
flour. Their chief crop is currants.
Greece is noted for it's luscious cur
rants and many acres are turned
into vineyards. In the cities, cot
ton, silk and leather goods are
made"
The children spent most OF the
day sailing about over the coun-
try stopping at one or two OF the
islands and at two or three places
on the mainland where the farm
ers were raising currants.
When you are home again and
mother sends you to the store for
a box of currants you can tell the
grocer that you have visited the
place where they probably were
raised" said Captain Brave laugh
ingE as they walked through one
the vineyards.
PART II.
The next day, too, Jack and Jane
and their friends spent in the huge
airplane. Captain Brave told the
children to study their lessons ear
ly so that they could leave Athens
quite a while before noon. This, OF
course, aroused their curiosity. but.
try as they could. they couldn't get
Captain Brave or Ladydear. either.
to tell where they were going. So,
it wasn't until everyone. including
Boob, was seated in the plane that
the captain said:
Were going now to Mount
Olympus, where all the gods and