Evening Star Newspaper, June 1, 1924, Page 75

'l JAHAN AND THE TAJ MAHAL Wallace Irwin's Japanese Schoolboy Letter Sets Forth the Principal Industries of India— oodwken Tipping. Hmericans Follow Example of Akbar the G To the Editor of The Star who think of India as place where Ink are made from washing native EAREST SIR—'"So this are Indt Cousin Nogi say that for great originality vestdy am. while we was walking very tropieally under a pair of cerker helmits, trying to look like Hom Tord Curzon while all Bombay was there to meet us. All Hindu pupulation got scrambled together on Pler. They must of got up early when they heard we was coming, for no- body had time to put on any clothes, except thelr shirts which was tied Hastly around their walsts, If T was # Hindu T would put more on my Mns & less on my head. Hindu legs are nothing to get swelled about. Their shape are worthless, Howeverly, they stood in mobs & groves, attempting to sell us every- thing they had spatched from their homes while running to meet our Boat. All the glass beads what Co- Fumbus offered to Indians while en- Tering America are offered to Amerl- cans while entering Indla. With evee resembling enlarged black prunes, all those Hindu salesmen jumbled around us, poking our noses with canes, post- cards, idols, embroidery, hasheesh & other neccessities of life until our heads commeace swimming in the moist perepiration of that hat town. “I should like get something to take home with me.” dictate Cousin Nogl while falling over a spotted gentle man with no feet on his legs. “What you choose take home with you?” I arrange. “Levrosy or small- Pox? Thers are pleAty chofce here where you stand.” This make Nogi so nervus that he Jump Into a snake charmer what set peacefully teaching six (6} cobras how dance the Joliy Widow Waltz. That Hon. Snake Charm got protty mad. by golly, because Nogi step on one of his cobras & would not pay for him when damaged. Howeverly, we got 20 minutes to arn all about habits & cusstums of India, which I show Ly following sta- tisticks Principal industries of Hindustan are sleeping, bathing, cooking curry, chewing a nut that makes people spit red ink, praying. going to temples, staying in temples, coming back from temples, scratching and staying in castes. A Caste are a sort of re- lldgious labor union which keep a Mindu from working nearly all the time. The Hindus are the only people in the world who can bathe § times a day & come out dirtier after every bath This re arranged by the priests who keep the water holy by never changing it. In Indla there are more intelectuality nd brains | than anywhere else, axcept Greenwich Village, N, Y. Because we was determined to go ' to Agre (home of famus Taj Mahal) that p.m. Nogi & me must hurry up while getting in a Indian whaleboat or Dhow & riding to Caves of Ele- phanta, a very holy ruin of pastime years, T miles from Bombay. “I know this Hon. Boat are very sacred,” decry Nogi while riding. “How yvou know that?” T peruse hotly under helmit. “Because of the smell,” dictate Nogi. Then we was there at Elephanta, #mo-called because there are no ele- phants, iess R ST O such wonderful thing to see, by golly! Umigine, Mr. Editor. a enlarged blds., sixe of Pennsyl- vania Station, ail whittled out of solid rock in side of & very hard hill: And what you see Inside? Gods & goodness in such big sizes they nearly knock you down to look at them. In central middle of Grand Ro- tunda, or Waiting Room, there were statue of Siva with three (3) heads, each head 44 ft. square. which are larger' than congressman's gets after election This Hon Siva are v popuiar god in India because his dish- agreeable qualities. & this Statuette show how he can look three (3) ways. ve “HE JUMP INTO A SNAKE CHARMER. curses at a cobra; on middle face he are looking quite satisfled, holding a citron, or Indian squash, with one of his 4 hands; on left-hand face he are holding out lotos flower with angel expression peculiar to Hindu attempt- Ing to sell something to Americans. Hon. Indian Guide, who lecture price one rupee, say that this statue repre- sent Stva beigg himself and Vishnu and Brahma all the same time, Per- hapsly. This relidgeon are too hard for Japaness Schoolboy to learn in one (1) lesson. In other portions of Elephanta are considerabla smaller stone portraits of Sive, about the size of Statue of Liberty. One of them show Siva get- ting married to Parvati with all gods & goddesses floating through air with rice & elderly shoes. Another one show Hon. Siva teaching Shimmi. or sacred dance, to several of his children. This statue were shot up by cannons when Portuguese come to India in 17th Century. 1If they had been very straight shooters mavbe this dance would never got to Broad- way & started so many things that can't stop. But we must not lotter too long among those magnified stone gods. Hon. Train were walting for take us to Agra, which are a very curio town, but not so curio as the railroad what fetch us there. This G. 1. P. (Great Indian Peninsula) RR are very sim- mular to the Erle RR with an Eng- lish accent. All the Pullman porters is Yogls with rings In their noses so they can be hitched when not in use. Passingers sleep 4 in a cumpartment, if at all. When we have went 15 minutes from station so much coal come in through window that shirts, faces. morals & everything gets ezackly the same color. On these trips only way to tell an Englishman from a Indian are this: the Indian are usually praying & the Englishman are usually drinking. All night long through window I could see Indla going past, much faster than you would think that country could travel. Next morning I awoke uply to observe a land which resemble California full of sacred cows and mud puddles in which bru- nettes was bathing their clothes, ba- bies, cobras & other kitchen utensiles. Temples, temples everywhere. In In- dia there are more temples than there used to be saloons in San Frisco. If Hon. Volsted should come to India & close the temples I sippose bootleg- ging would go on just the same. And then, by golly, we stop train, for there we was at Agra. Several black persons (what was towerists when they started) got off and say 0! when viewing pretty sights of On left hand face he are looking very cross & hangover, making angry that grandy city of elderly time. Agra, Mr. Editor (I tell you this 1 | { for your ignorance) were a city built a long time of yore by & lot of Mugul conquoriors. Somebody are always conquoring Indla. It are a habit. Every thousand yrs. or so long come a King who captures India and spend the rest of his life wondering what to do about it. Those Mugul Emper- ors was a sort of cross between Japanese and Turks which made them extra brave and fond of wives. * % % x ELL, short time after Hon. Chris Columbus died of grief from dishcovering America long come a king name of Akbar who decide to take India while nobody else was do- ing so. Therefore he slew the resi- dential sultan and all his soldiers. In fact there were a great deal of slewing enjoyed in that battle. The mother of that dead sultan were a old lady called a Beegum. She did not like to see this cumpartive stranger plaving with the Koh-i-noor & other family diamonds what he took over with the real estate. There- fore she call her cook & ask him to make the soup more poisonous than usual. If Hon. Cook would feed that killing food to Hon. Akbar she offer to make him Governor of a State about the size of Oklahoma, but not s0 wild. This seem only fare to Hon. Cook who mix Prusslan acld into Hon. Ak- bar's chicken curry & rice. But that Great Mogul were too smart, by golly! He smell that foods, do not care for it, and feed It to a dog. The dog dled. So did the cook. 80 did the Beegum. After that he were called Akbar the Good and were calebratted for his nobile works. He built a fort at Agra which resemble the Tower of London done in pink ice cream with pretty chocolate loop-holes through which arrows could be shot, if neces- sary, at the Enemles of. God. He built a mosque with walls made of solid jewelry, stole from the family that had just moved out. This made nice quiet place for the Faithful to pray in. After than Hon. Akbar tipped all residents of India a rupee aplece. This custom remains wher- ever American towerists show up. This Fort of Agra are most beauti- ful place since Arabian Nights. All that Akbar family were crazed about building marble palaces covered with fruit & flower pieces made of rubies, emmeralds, diamonds happen to be in the icehox that morn- ing. It seem that Hon. Akbar had a grandson name of Shah Jahan who were famus for butchery, insanity & matrimonial bliss. He kept a stable filled with racing elephants with which he got lots of fun riding over & whatever | Hindues & seeing how many he could squash without getting hurt. This Shah Jahan accumulated 200 which annoy him, so he kill them all before brekfast, leaving one (1) who had Bobbie hair and Louis- ville eyes. ping queen Lady of the spend his time inventing new varle- ties of fancy rooms for her. Heor bedrooms was all covered with rosebuds made of rubles with 2 1b. diamonds in the center. When she get peeved & say, “This old wall- paper are getting shabby,” he call in slaves to ship off those ruby rose- buds & change the decorations to emerald cucumbers. In one smallish compartment she used to have a fountin what squirt out of a diamond spiggit. ‘When Nogl see that fountin he al- most bursted his suspenders attemp- ing to find if one or 2 smallish dia- monds was not still laying around there. historical curlosities. When that Lady of the P dead this Shah Jahan were so sorry that ha shoot 206 doctors, went to Mecca & commit other holy acts. Then ha decide to bulld the Taj Ma- hal. Nobody know why that que die so sudden. Pussibily he poison her so he can built her such a nic tomb. At any rates, Shah Jahan send to all architects in India for bids on a munimint that would make the Woolworth Bldg. look like 5 & 10c. * % ok x n | NJOST famus architect in | Come to Agra, thinking it were not a joke. He got very busy & built Taj Mahal in 2 yrs. time. When it were finished Shah Jahan call Hon Architect to office & say. “Congratu- lations are in odor! Because you have made the finest bldg. in the world I will have your eves burnt out, so you cannot built another for the next Mogul that comes along.” Next yr. this Shah Jahan wish built another Taj Mabal, so he would have neat tomb for himself without crowd- ing his queen. This Taj were to be of black marble with a goldy bridge across the river. But when he look for achitects they were all some- wheres else, designing railway sta- tions. Taj Mahals were too difficult | on the evesight. | But this Taj Mahal are not dan- | gerous to look at when seen by tow- erists. It arise out of sweet lakes like a 10,000 ton bubble with 4 Wash- ington Monimints on each corner. While gazzing at it T feel thrills along my wrists & elbows and try to think up some poetry that wasn't written by Kipling. & that night we saw Taj by moon- Islam it Modern Travelers Investigate Ol BY FRANK G. CARPENTER.® | DELPHI. spot that Navel of the AM on_ the called “The Almost under my den of the dragon by the sun god Apollo, and 1 can throw a piece of marble from a statue or column into a hole in the | rocks that may have been the mouth of the oracle of Delphi. The words of the oracle came from a hole in the ground, from which arose fll-smelling vapors said tc have the power to in- toxicate the bystanders. 1f this be rue, the oracle must have had a bad breath. It was the oracle that made the city of Delphia, which is now represented by the ruins about me. It was con- sulted by the republics of Greece and their leaders on all matters of mo- ment, such as the making of laws, the beginning of war and the rise and fall of nations and men. Alexander the Great belleved in it, Philip of Macedon bowed down before it and Solon the law-giver, Pindar the poet and Plato the wise man all spoke of it with respect. But first let me tell where Delphi is and how one zets there in the twentieth century. 1 came to Greece from Constantinople by ship and from Athens to Delphi in an Amerlcan motor car. The distance tetween the latter cities is 150 miles. In the anclent times every one walked or rode on horses or in chariots. They went up from the Bay of Corinth on foot, for chariots could not climb the steep mountain. Delphi is situated on the slope of Mount Paspassus, as high up as the top of the Blue Rldge, and the moun- tain rises above it for another mile or more, seeming to touch the sky at 2,000 feet mbove the- height of Mount Washington. A good automo- bile road now winds up to Kastri. a town near the site of the Oracle City. | I am writing this in. the midst of the ruins. The Bay of Corinth is more than 2,000 feet below me, and the land drops in terraces untll it is lost in the water. To my left in the valley I can see a pale green olive its thousands of trees skirting Ebu. and all about me are the re: ins of anclent temples and theaters N feet Pytho, slain or you and the paved streets of the old city laid bare by the archeologists. The ruins cover hundreds of acres, and they are backed by glgantic pink and gray cliffs, running precipitously upward for thousands of feet. I am sitting in the Temple of Apollo, to which I climb by the Sacra Via, a flagstone roadway lined with broken columns, bits of statues and the beau- tiful carving of the civilization of 2,500 years ago. The Temple of Apollo is all gone except for a column or so and the great stone blocks that made the foundation. Its floor covered almost one-third of an acre, and by my paces it was about 200 feet long and 75 feet in width. T have counted the col- umns from -the holes in which they were set, and find it took fifteen to support the great roof. My guide tells me that the Oracle was sup- posed to be under the floor of the temple, but so far no one has been able to find a cleft in the rock from which the sleep-proddcing vapor came forth. The supposition is that the words of the gods came out with the vapor. Above the crack was a golden tripod. on which sat the | priestess who interpreted the jargon uttered ky the Oracle. No one but the initiated could understand the words, and she often put them in such terms that they could mean either success of fallure. * ok ok x A BOUT this temple were the tre ure houses of the great cities of Greece, filled with gold and other wealth presented as offerings to the Oracle. The treasury of the Athenians has been re-erected out of the frag- ‘ments of the bullding, but the golden shields’ taken from the Persians In the year 340 B. C. are still unrecov- ered. Like the other treasure houses, they were looted by the conquerors who overran Greece. Sylla, who later besieged Athens, used the Delphic treasures for the payment of his troops, and Nero divided the plain be- Jow here among his soldiers and took 500 statues from the temple to Rome. At the time of Pliny there were still 3,000 statues at Delphi, and the coun- try abofit was one vast museum. Higher up on Mount Parnassus are the remains of the great theater. and higher still those of the stadium where He name this little flap- | Palace &| Florida water | But such are not the case with | went | EAR FRIEND READER—for you will not mind my calling -you this, or both of this, for I feél already that we are friends, are we not, don’t you?—let us sit down and have a comfortable get-together visit and talk things over. Are you aware that there is big movement going on In this country, and that a lot of big-hearted men and ever so many blg women are in it? Perhaps not. Then let me try to tell you all about it and the way in which the world is being trans- formed by it. Have you ever thought of the large place that love plays in this world? Perhaps not. And if you have hither- to been clean outside of our great fmovement toward the new life and the new success, you have probably never read the booklet on choosing a mate. + It may never have occurred to you how many men in picking a mate, or a life companion, or éven a wife, make a bad pick. There are ever so many cases on record where serious dissatisfaction arises with the se- lection which has been made. With | S0 many to choose from, this seems | unnecessary. If you will study the work of Dr. Salubrious, you will see that he makes the bold claim that men and women are animals and they should mate with the same care as is shown by the lobster, the lizard and the graminiferous mammalia. . The essential idea is that a new | race of men and women is emerging under our eyes. These people are a new set of beings. Alive with per- sonality, using one hundred per cent of their efficlency, they are rapidly in- heriting the earth. Doctor him- self has put it. “The future will be- long to those who own it Do you want then, reader—to be in this movement or out of it? Or, no, let me put it in the striking way | phrased by Allforce, “Can you afford to be out of §t2 Let us therefore proceed to study out this afterncon quiety and sys- tematically, taking nothing for grant- ed. We have said that personality is the greatest thing In the world. But now let us ask ourselves: How do we know that personality is the greatest thing in the world? From what corollaries do draw this hypothesis, and is such an innuendo justified? In other words, who says s0? Our answer to this is very simple. The greatest men in the world, those, that is to say, who draws the largest salaries, do so by their personality. Ask any truly great man how he we s tell you the same thing bigger the man he will say it. ok ox THE other day I had a few minutes’ i conversation (I couldn't afford more) with one of the biggest priced men in this country. “To what,” T asked, “do you attribute your own greatness?” He answered without hesitation, “To myself."” there was a man who has the | reputation of belng the second big- gest consumer of crude rubber In this country. 1 asked another man, a large consumer of adjustable bicycle parts, how much he thought he owed of his present commanding position to education. He answered emphati- cally, “Nothing.” Something in his tone made me believe him. The shine. O hickory! What a section of heaven that were! With silver light splashing all over it from moon my soul got kind of Christian Scinece and ould believe anything. O!! How I wish Miss Susie Oki were there to hold hands & help me think! In sight of that elevated Eddyface who could hold his brain from floating off ground & joining angels etc? I walked around Taj with those emotions, and in corner of a moon- shined shadow I hear two femaline towerists talking softishly. I listen to hear, because 1 know what poetry must be coming out of them. So thus were what they sail One Volce—Aunt Tassie, be qulet & keep your kimono on. Another Voice—How could I be quiet Stephen Leacock Gives So made all his money, and he will al- | is the more loudly | Efficiency of the Individual in Active Affairs. NESS?” SELF.” “TO WHAT,” I ASKED, “DO YOU ATTRIBUTE YOUR OWN GREAT- HE ANSWERED WITHOUT HESITATION: me Inside Information on the Great New Movement Which Increases | Post office box 6, Canal street, Bufe | “TO MY- Now the common element in all these men is personality. Each one of them has a developed, balanced, nicely adjusted, well hung personality. You feel that as soon as such a man is in ¥ room you are somehow aware that he has come in. When he leaves you realize that he has gone out. As soon as he opens his mouth you know that he is speaking. When he shuts his mouth you feel that he has stopped. For the acquirement of personality, the first thing needed is to get into harmony with yourself. You may think that this {s difficult. But a little practice will soon show you how. Make the effort, so far as you can, to set up a bilateral harmony between your inner and your outer | eso. | When you get this done start and see what you can do to extend your- | self in all directions. This is a little hard at first, but the very difficulty will lend zest to the effort. As soon as you begin to feel that you are dolng it, then try, gently at first, but with increasing emphasis, to revolve about your own axis. When you have got this working nlecely, slowly and carefully at first, 1ift yourself to a new level of thinking. When you have got up there, hold it The next great thing to quired is optimism, cheerfuln the absence of all worry. It is a scien- tific fact that worr, effect upon the body, clogging up the | ducts with mud. Cheerfulness, on the other hand, loosens up the whole anatomy by allowing a free play to the bones. —_—mmm- m e when that hotel keeper cheat me 2 annas on post-cards? One Volce—Maybe you will feel hap- pier on the train. Another Volce—Those darnly Indlan trains has got more jolts in them than home-made gin. I have lost my nail-file and 1 are wearing the stockings of a perfect stranger. borrowing this morning. & where did you put my Cold Cream last night when you packed the soap in my hot water bagg? So I walk away from all that grand- uier with corkscrews in my soul. | Maybe I are coming down with a | moonstroke. Hoping vou are the same Yours truly HASHIMURA TOGO. (Copyright, 1924.) ur presence; when he enters a | be ac-| has a physical | o g0 000 whatever of its authenticity. oesophagus and filllng the primary | | as a bright EGIN each day with a smile. When you rise in the morning throw open your window wide and smile out of it. Don’t mind whom You hit with it. When you descend to the break- fast table try to smile at your food, | or even break into a pleasant laugh at the sight of it. When you start off to your place of business enter your street car in a bright and p ant way, paying your fare to the con- ductor with a winsome willingness. When you go into the office, re- move your coat and rubbers with a pretty little touch of bonhomie. Ask the janitor, or the night watch- man, how he has slept. Greet your stenographer with a smile. Open your correspondence with another smife, and when you answer it, try to put into what you write just th little touch of friendiy cheerfulness that will win your correspondent's heart. It is amazing how a little touch of personal affection will brighten up the dull routine of busi- ness correspondence like & grain of gold In the sand. Don’t sign yourself “Yours truly, but in some such w as “Yours for optimism,” or “Yours for & hundred per cent cheerfulne But 1 will show you what I mean in a more ex- tended way by relating to your the amazing—but well authenticated—story of the rise and success of Edward Bean- head. In presenting the instance of Ed- ward Beanhead, T may say that I have 1 have seen this story of the rise of Edward Beanhead (under his own and other names) printed in so many | mony makes for H | man falo.” From “this time on Beanhead's spare minutes were spent fa study. We have in proof of this the famil far {llustration in which Edward is seen on a high stool, In his office at lunch hour, cating a bun with one hand and studying.a book on per- sonality in the other, while at the side, inserted in a sort of little cloud one can see Edward's two office com- panions playing craps. The picture is now rather rare, the little vignetts of the crap game having proved rather too attractive for certain minds: in fact some people quits mis- 100k the legend, “Do you want to make money fast?' Beanhead took the entire course, occupying five weeks and covering Personality., Magnetism, Efficlency. Dynamic Potency, the Science of Power, and Essentlals of Leadership. By the end of his course Edward had reached certain major conclu- sions. He now saw that® Personallty is Power: that Optimism opens Op- portunity; and that Magnetism Makes Money. He also realized that Har ppin . and that carry hiz waste ducts and unfit him Worry would mere products into th for success. Armed with these propositions, Ed- ward Beanhead entered his office after his five weeks' course a new man. Instead of greeting his employer with a cold “Good Morning,” as many employes are apt do, Edward asked his superior how he had slept Now notice how the little things count. Tt so happened that his em- ployer hadn't slept decently for ten years; and yet no employe had ever asked him about it. Naturally he reacted” at once. Edward reacted back and in a few minutes they were in close confabulation. Beanhead suggested to his employe that perhaps his ducts were clogged with albuminous litter. The senio gravely answered that in tha he had better raise Edward's salary. Beanhead acquiesced with the sole proviso that in that case he should be allowed to organize his em- ployer's business so as to put it or 2 strategic footing. Now observe again how things count. Tt o happened that this man, although carrying on a business which extended over six states a out into the ocean. had never thought of organizing it; and he dldn't even know what u strategic footing was The result was a second increase of salary within twenty-four hours. In the that followed Ed- ward Beanh now seated In a con modious offic flat-top desk and a view of the ocean and a range of mountains, entir reorganized the firm's business. IHis method was simple. The emploses were sub- mitted to a rutiless brain-test which eliminated most of them. The business itself was then plotted out on a chart so designed as to show at a glance all the places where th firm did no husiness. Banks in whieh the firm had no money were marked with a cross. By these and othe: devices Edward rapidly placed th business on a footing, stopping all the leaks, focusing it to a point driving it deep intp the ground, giv- ing it room to expand, and steerins it through the rocks. The situatior to case weeks new journals that it must be true. Skeptical readers may suggest that Edward must have owed his start In life to early advantages of birth and wealth: he may have been a prince. This is not so. Beanhead had no birth and no wealth. Accounts differ as to where he was born. Some of the documents. as reproduced in the ‘best advertising pages, represent him little farm boy from Keokuk, Towa. It is well known, of course, that rallroad presidents and heads of colleges come from there. The only thing of which we can be certain is that Edward Beanhead, as a youth just verging Into manhood, was occupying a simple station a some sort of business clerk. Here came the turning point of his life By a happy accident Edward came across the little booklet entitled “Tut- ankhamen is a Dead One. What are vou? Learn personla efficlency in six lesson: ‘Write to the Nut Universit: is perhaps more casily understood b stating that henceforth the motto the busin be e “Service." The natural upshot of it was t before long Edward Beanhead's en ployer summoncd him up to his office and informed him that he was getting old (he was seven weeks dlder than when we began th him), and tha hé4 was now pr ed to retire to a monastery or to a golf club, and that if Edward wanted the business he could have it Hence at t Beanhead revolved of end we see Edward Leside his desk, half revolving chair and stenographer within easy touch. There are two littl#s* placards nailed up, one on each sid of his head, bearing the legends “Effi- ciency” and “Service. And one wonders where are those fellows who were playing craps. (Copyright, 1924.) in reek Oracles Worked by Tubes “THE WORK OF REPAIRING THE PARTHENON, THE CHIEF GLORY OF ANCIENT GREECE, IS CARRIED ON FROM TIME TO TIME. THE SCAFFOLDING ENABLES STUDENTS AND ARCHEOLOGISTS TO STUDY THE ARCHITECTURE AT CLOSE RANGE.” anclent ggmes were held, just ag modern athletics are celebrated in the big marble stadium of the Athens of today. The stadium of Delphi was longer than that of Athens, but not so wide. The Athens stadium will seat 50,000 spectators. The theater was an open-air hall, paved with limestone slabs. It had seats of stone. It was in existence 2,000 years ago, for at that time one of the distinguished citizens of Greece gave money for its restoration. The acoustios seem to have been perfect, for, sitting below in the temple, I could hear the sweet nothings that my secretary was®whispering in the ear of the American maiden from Crete as they stood far above me. | Most of the excavations at Delphi have been made by the Fremch. A much greater work under the Ameri- can School of ‘Classical Studies has gone on at Corinth, where St. Paul went after his eloquent sermon on Mars Hill in Athens. Paul lived in Corinth a year and a half at that time with Aquila, the tentmaker, and he came back six vears later afld “there bode” three months in the house of Gaius. During his first stay he established a church and wrote the Epistle to the Thessalonians, and while he was with Gaius he wrote his Epistles to the Romans and Galatians. The American school, however, has made no discoveries as to St. Paul. Its Work has been in excavating the ancient city and reconstructing parts of the ruins. Corinth was at the height of its glory hundreds of years before Christ, and In the days of our Savior it was noted for its commerce and manufacture. It was then as large as Baltimore is now. and was a rival of Rome as to trade. It w one of the chief ports of the Medi- terranean Sea. The historians say that it was twelve miles in circum- ference. Later Corinth rebelled against Rome, and the Romans destroyed it. They sold its citizens into slavery, and for 100 years it lay desolate. That was. in 148 B. C. Jullus Caesar refounded ‘the town, sad by the time St. Paul came, which was about fifty vears after Christ, it was again cele- brated throughout the mear east for its luxury, frivolldes, licentiousness and vice. St. Paul takes account of these things in his Epistles. x* k¥ UT first let me tell you something about. the American school of archeologists and university gradu- ates who are doing so much in dig- ging up ancient Greece and opening its wonders to the eyes of the world About a half century ago the Amer can Institute of Archaeology estab- lished a echool of classical studies at Athens. The object was to give graduates of American universities and colleges an opportunity to study the classics and Greek art and an- tiquitles on the ground and to aid in original search in these subjects. The best of Greek professors were chosen, and nine of our colleges and univer- sities undertook to pay the expenses until a permanent endowment could be secured. The school was estab- lished in 1883, and the first president of the board was James Russell Lowell. The committee which now runs the institution consists of rep- resentatives from thirty-three col- leges scattered over the United States. During my stay at Athens I went out to see the school buildings. They stand on the southern slope of Lyca- bettus, looking out at the Acropolis and Mount Hymettus. The ground for them was given by King George 1 of Greece, and additional space had been acquired partly by gift from the Greek government and partly by pur- chase. It is intended to erect a wom- an's dormitory for American girls who want to come to Greece to study the classics. This school has the largest and best library of ancient Greece known to the world. T! was started by the school itself, some of the money hav ing been given by John Hay, the Car- negie Corporation and John D. Rocke- feller. In addition to this. the school | past has just received the magnificent li- brary of 50,000 pieces collected by Dr. Joannes Gennadius, who for forty years was Greek minister at the Court of 8t. James. Dr. Putnam, di- rector of the Library of Congress and one of the best authorities on ancient and modern bibliography, appraised the library, and said it had no equul anywhere. A building is to be erectc to house it. 1 took a train and rode out Corinth a few days ago. The mod: town Ifes not far from the western mouth of the Corinth Canal, and it may be reached by boat through the canal, by railway or by automobile It is an ordinary little Greek city of about 5,000 people The ruins lie about five miles away There are Americans in charge, and it was with one of them that I wan dercd over the remains of the great that are now coming to view * ik * (QYE of the most interesting discov- eries to me is that made as t the Oracle of Corinth, which gave forth decrees like the one I have de- scribed in my visit to Delphl. The Oracle at Corinth was connected by a subterranean passage, fitted with a mouthpiece that served as a speaking tube. The arrangement was such that the priest could crawl in under ground some distance away, and b: a little ventriloquism make his pro- phetic words come out of the mouth of the Otacle. If the ancients had discovered the radio they might have broadcasted the words of the gods to all parts of Greece. Among the other excavations of the American school have been some on the Acropolis, that great hill of pink limestone rock which rises straight up‘from the plain on which Athens stands to the height of a fifty-story apartment house or to almost the height of the Washington Monument. It is right on the edge of Athens, and commands a view of the city, the plain and the ocean. It was the seat of government of ancient Athens un- der the Greek kings, and later was set aside to the worship of gods. It looks much like a great rock of rosy red marble with here and there a bit of grass or a blood-red poppy peeping out of its crevices. The plateau upon the top contiins, I judge, about ten acres, and upon it is the Parthenon, the most wonderful structure beauty and art ever created. (Copyright, 399, Carpenter’s World Travels.) )