. St. Nicholas [serial] . GREEK YOUTH AND SENATOR. AND DANCEBS (As the music is played each (^ircck youth stepsup, kitcels, and receives his sliield and spear. Asthe Greek Senators and Youths pass out, the musicchanges to a Greek dance. The Greek Maidens,about twenty-four, rise from their seats in theassembly-room, and perform a Grecian dance.) Child of To-day. Were nt they beautiful!But did the Greeks help to make their own laws? Father Time, The Greeks were the first toteach the world that every free citizen should havea part in making- the laws and in ruling the Child, it was a wond


. St. Nicholas [serial] . GREEK YOUTH AND SENATOR. AND DANCEBS (As the music is played each (^ircck youth stepsup, kitcels, and receives his sliield and spear. Asthe Greek Senators and Youths pass out, the musicchanges to a Greek dance. The Greek Maidens,about twenty-four, rise from their seats in theassembly-room, and perform a Grecian dance.) Child of To-day. Were nt they beautiful!But did the Greeks help to make their own laws? Father Time, The Greeks were the first toteach the world that every free citizen should havea part in making- the laws and in ruling the Child, it was a wonderful nation at that time,six hundred years before the Christian era ! Beauty. KING JOHN REFUSES TO SIGN MAGNA CHARTA was its kcy-nole. To the Greeks, a beautiful bodyindicated a beautiful soul. A Greek are the glorious Greeks of in mien and mind;Their bones are mingled with the mold. Their dust is on the wind ;The forms they hewed from living stone Survive the waste of years, alone,And, scattered with their ashes, showWhat greatness perished long ago. Child of To-day {looking into the crystal;starts back with fear). Oh, this is a dreadfulpicture ! Men are running about wildly ! Father Time. It is the year 1215. Again thecry of the oppressed people has been heard. Theydemand that King John sign the great charter. (King John followed by three attendants comein. He ascends a small raised stand. A crowd ofpeople follow him in. One of the barons advances:hands him a roll of parchment. King John pushesit aside. Another hands it again, while the voicenf the people is heard, Sign! Sign! Again he


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