New-York tribune., 1921-11-20

them in their present war. Athens has bssn
working hard for fifty years to force tho ,os.
Of the world to call it Tho Little parisp r,;,,
out STOPPING to rely on any such artificial aide
as regular theaters, taxis, caharets. one,.
raeetracks, picture galleries, good cinema
shows or hidden plumbing. 1t expects to oar,
its title on it's we'll dressed women.
Certainly, they are Oriental looking fran
their long infusion of Turkish blood T,.,
are often handsome, though they have thieL
ankles. and they look we'll in chiffon which /.
their favoritc covering. Every Athenian
woman has at least five chiffon frocks for cais
wear and all Of them are pink. Two ardent
feminists among them, Dr.. Mary Kalapathaikis
and Nine. G. Perrin, have altered various laws
pertaining to the protection of young girls as
first step toward getting the vote and hone
to gain it in the winters governmental sit.
ting. Sympathetic politicians say they
haven't chance. They have forced open the
university and the medical schools to women
who now enter and are themselves women o,
importance similar to Alice Paul and the late
Inez Milholland Nine. Perrin was important
enough to be exiled by Venizelos
But the Athenian woman, as a whole is.
though perhaps as well shod on four inch
heels as Northcliffe thinks she is, also inert
The average fapper from New Rochelle would
find her unsophisticated, even i'll informed.
She has no cinemas to go to by day until late
afternoon. so pcrforce spends great deal Of
time in the house. She is not conscious as
the sociologists say, and the Greek men are
likely delighted.
Perhaps she is most powerful on moon
light nights on the Acropolis. The Acropolis
is being partially restored on half the income
from the Marine and Archaeological lotter-
les, and the Greek people are interested. Some
of them even win lot of money. But most Of
them make love on it the three moonlit nights
a month that it is open. Practically all of the
pre-domestic arrangements of young Athens
take place between the pillars OF the Parthe-
non by moon. The Acropolis may have been
used by Pericles in his time for mass meetings
but the meetings held there now are two by
two and private. On the fallen pillars pledges
are solemnly whispered by young people, who
want silence and seclusion and frequently have
to put up with intrusions, such as large bodies
or InQla03 TOURISTS SLIOlSly dcNSHteU ANU
eager to see all. and British music hall singers,
who have run up to try out new number in
what remains Of the marble Hagniicence Of
the Propylaea.
The Acropois is the best part of the Greeks
past and the better part of his present as well,
He will admit this. He recognizes the stand
srd he set for the world by his history and MS
inability to live up to it any more closely than
any one else. Asa consequence, he only hopes
he can lick the Turk.
He is not sure of it.
In the midst of his political and bellicose
woes he sees the smallness of his occasional
present victories as compared with the mag
nifcence of his final defeats in the past. He
sees also the incongruity of his present civiliSa
ton, with its mean trolley cars sweeping be-
meath the finest pile of ruins the world
hunt and see.
He knows even if he gets to keep all of Ana
tolia out of the present war that he has
fallen on hard times. For what is Anatolia to
the city of Athens that once called herself in
the days when the Mediterranean was every
thing, "Queen Of the Seas? Getting all Of
Asia Minor wouldn't make Athens sea queen
nowadays.
The trouble with Athens really is that the
rest of the world has discovered entirely too
many seas.