Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1921-06-17

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now, at various points in the Kingdom
where research is going on, smaller
museums devoted to the preservation |
OF tise. treasufes~ef the locality.
Growing the city of Athena gtaEds
the sheer and mighty rock of the
Acropolis. dominated by the Parthe-
non, matchless even in its ruins, which
projects the changeless purity of its
lines against the background of the
changing centuries, which have made
of it in turn the. shrine of, the vestal,
the church hof nthe' Christian, the
mosque of the Moslem, and now and
ever the ideal of all lovers Of the
beautiful
Near at hand cluster the chief rem
nants Of The glory that was Greece;
on the one side the tiny gem of the
Temple of the Wingless Victory, SO
chaste and delicate in it's proportions
and outline, and on the other the
kErechtheum, with its unique porch ,of
the earWtides<
Hard by the stairs of the imposing
Propylaea rises the sturdy rock of
| tlC A1lll VI GndtS, MucuSC 81 duA
declared the Unknown God and INCL
| dentally took the Athenian measure
for all intervening time. At little
| distance stands the rough-hewn Benia,
where Demosthenes and Ctesiphon
strove In matchless phrase, while just
below rise the ivory-tihted columns of
the Temple of Theseus, best preserved
of all the classic remains.
| Against such a background it Is
easy to project the ties of sentiment
] which ybind the life of the Greek OF
| today to that of the classic worthless
from whom he claims direct descent.
| With only, a. slight shock one will
learn that the man who gives him
his morning coffee bears the tremen-
dous name of Themistocles. And yet
it is difficult to visualize the modern
Athenian with those who once walked
bis streessililiilI
| 1t is only in the islands or deep In
the country, where the Albanian flood
which swept across the Attic plain
has never reached, that one finds the
facial lineaments and the bodily grace
which the ancient sculptor has taught
the modern world as being common
to all Greeks Of classic time.
Its Agriculture Backward.
| Greece is essentially land Of agri-
culture, pre-eminently intended to be
such; but, owing to the tremendous
drain by emigration from the rural
districts the prsgrrss of agriculture
has been painfully deficient. In many
places the Land is TILED ,pnlyybI wom-
en- and .gisast fanS of thesmehs have
gone on to America NAass.
Many find the Athenian climate
agreeable. Cold winds there are, to
| be sure, in winter, blowing down from
the snow-capped hills above the town
or blowing up from the sea at Phal-
Reron; but there are no frostss the
roses bloom during every month Of
the year; oranges ripen in the open
air, one may pick his breakfast fruit
from the trees outside his window.
!. The summer heat lis easily endurable,
the sabsehce of ram removing the 'ffu-
, midity which makes American mid
} summer so fintolerable.- One cannot
, truthfully say that midsummer nights
/ in Athens are really cool. but there
Is a sensible difference from the heat
J of the day and freshness which al
( ways makes sleep possible.
e At the beginning of the hot season.
/ there is usually an exodus OF 1.-THE
q court, the Diplomats and. the wealthy
: from Athens, To take their places
4 there fi3ck to Athens and to the sea.
: Side Hotels at. Phhierone and 10 villas
4 and resorts TAT" Kephisia-it THE Hill
1 numbers Of ricK GreeH from Asia
tsI Minbrs and from EgytW aid tie whole
Wy city ressvSerrses the order OF ifs wifitel
: life, turning night into day and-spend
o ding most of 'tips hours hetweers suNse
VI and sunrise outsQfrdosrs. EyeFywheaE'
d about the town, on THE roofs Of club
d or hotels, in the gardens or on thu
h }stemaces On lrest aurAAt IT, - heaealht tn
It pepper trees of the parks, and evel
It In the streets, tables are spread, AM
probably as many as 100000 peopl
dine in the open -aiE- each night Of al
y Athenian summer.
= Throughout Greece indee
le throughout the entire Balkan region
70 English Is much heard, because Of tn
N great numbers of Greeks who hav
A. returned home from America; ant
le few travellers in the Peloponnesus wi
" fail to recall at almost every railroa
ca station the eager !. face thrust In a
d; u the rarpsge. winloY .spd rquiTarin
is with the demand. "You fellarS fro'
le American