The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-05-08
SECTION A

macist. But once here. fipd IL =.
different from what | had exnact.1
In many ways. that | bDga, y,
dream Of myself being AN Aueri
can and bringing my family blre a.
be with me-"
SO by years OF patience and har,
work was the dream woven .n.a tbs
texture Of reality But the wlg was
not all roses. stephen came over In
1909. In 1911, the Older sister hay
ing had a proposal from o. friend of
the family, n Judge, after the custom,
OF Greece, John. as the uItl4 u,io
member of the family, was .l,suit.
ed. Therefore he went to Greece 10
meet this man. who married IA.
clster soon after Johns arrival Ag3
he had not been there thrDa DAYS b..
fore he was swept into the army ana
sent to the front In the Balkan wars
After n years service hp was dis.
charged and rumors Of a EuIopean
war being rife, came hum. imme.
diately, seeing his mother again for
only half a day. lie came win
stephen to Tulsa five years ago as.
tablished tho Superior Tol.oom a,
b1A West Main and has Darupd a
patronage that Includes mpu, warm
friends Meantime, the sister was
widowed, and It has been for the
happy day yesterday, whom she and
her mother and little daughter
stepped from the train 90 Che plat.
form, that these years Of work have
been for. The two other brothers
are officers In the army, they are
dreaming dreams, too. and 'ust az
soon as they can be houoIauy re-
leased, they are coming also TO
Tulsa
This. in brief is the story ~ "
prayannis family, in whose veins
flows not only the blood ot classic
Greece but the red blood of the
pioneer as well. There 10 great
deal more that might be told some
OF il was related silently hy the con.
tents of the trunks that cam" with
them.
Greek Women Artists AZ Needle.
Spread on the bed in one cot the
rooms were piece after piece of
such exquisite linens as are seldom
seen i'm this country any Wure-al-
most never when their history IS
known. For the linen, the lace. the
embroidery, all were mad" 10y Mrs
Prayannis and her daughter From
the picking of the cotton iu the
weaving, every bit OF the work was
done by their own hands LoveG
bits of lace, wonderful lunch Dloths
beautifully wrought undorgarments.
napkins-no woman in her right
mind could view them without com.
mitting violence upon her available
stock of adjectivcs. More wonderful
| still. perhaps, were the silk things
| bits OF embroidery and pieces ~ ma
| terial--that we're made from SILK OF
! their own manufacture, so 10 speak
! the Prayannis daughters were taught
! to care for the silk worms and how
| to handle the product.
That" said the brother as he
proudly displayed these things his
mother and sister had made, lis the
way the young girl OF Greece spends
| the days Of her youth"
He was very proud OF them. and
of the things they could do, this
/ brother: he risplayed their handwork
! himself, while the sister. with soft
| little cooling sounds, flew back and
forth between trunk and bed with
new things. and pointed out for
masculine appreciation to be brought
out for the visitor.
Discussing conditions in Greece,
Mrs. Prayannis says that in her est.
| nation the return of Constantine
was brought about by propaganda
purely: that the people are suffer
ing, many of them, poor, dissatified
and for the most part would be glad
to see the return OF the former