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Show more than its :\J osqucs of many minarets, thing of grace and beauty. Friday, ,\pril 5th, our ship sailed for Creece, and the fo !Jovving Sunday mo rning, April 7th, we reached A then . There is . omet hin g class ic and myst ic about that name. Athens. I'\amecl in honor of .l\thena, in tl1e t ime of Erechtheus, though fo unded by Cecro ps fifteen hundred years beiore Christ. Athens, th e ancient capital of Atti ca, the present capit a l of Crecce. and the center nf ( ;reek culture . Athens is a beautifully built and splendidly governed city. The King of c; recce lives here and we caught his photograph. T he \ cropolis is here. 1\lars Hill is here. The Parthenon is here. The greate. t Stadium in the vvorlcl is here. The Temple oi Athena, the Tower of the \\ ' incl s, Hadrian's Arch, the Prison of Socrates, the Temple of Theseion. During our stay there, their Tat ional I ndcpenclcnce Day was celebrated and cu lminated with the J(ing's reviewing the t\rmy and .:\a,·y . It was a most cred it able expres. ion of the zeal and patrioti sm of Creece, and during tl1e two days that these festivities occ upi ed, I do not recall i'Ceing one case of drunkenness or ungentlemanly cond uct. Other \"ations mig-ht learn a wholesome lcsc;;on from ( ;reecc. From thcns we tra\·elecl hy rail to P atras and thence hy ship to 11rincli. i. Italy. \\ 'ith what con s iclera tion Providence has concea led from us many things that lie before u s. [lad this not been true, many that took passage for this \'oyagc, would han~ sa iled later, or perhaps, C\' Cil remained in ( ;rcccc indefinitely. The sa il between Patras and the ~fccliterranean, ''ia the canal, was in e\·ery sense delightiul, hut new condition aro. e just as soon as \\'C struck out for the open . ca. :\ ept unc seemed angry and Pag-e r~ ighty · ninc |