. The Burton Holmes lectures;. A KUAN GRECIAN JOURNEYS 191 After the passing of these old fellows and their contempo-raries, the national Greek dress will be seen no more savein museums or at masquerades. The new generation,dressed like apes in graceless coats and baggy trousers,will then congratulate itself and prate of progress. We made our noonday halt by invitation at a delightfulhouse where the innate courtesy of our hosts and theirunaffected pleasure in entertaining us added a relief to thesimple fare provided. Such are the Greeks of the oldregime. Less picturesque are the Greeks of the
. The Burton Holmes lectures;. A KUAN GRECIAN JOURNEYS 191 After the passing of these old fellows and their contempo-raries, the national Greek dress will be seen no more savein museums or at masquerades. The new generation,dressed like apes in graceless coats and baggy trousers,will then congratulate itself and prate of progress. We made our noonday halt by invitation at a delightfulhouse where the innate courtesy of our hosts and theirunaffected pleasure in entertaining us added a relief to thesimple fare provided. Such are the Greeks of the oldregime. Less picturesque are the Greeks of the new regime,those who have been caught up by the wave of modernitythat has swept across the land. Their houses and their. A MOIJKRN 192 GRECIAN JOURNEYS dress reflect the commonplaceness of to-day. Only oncedid we accept hospitality for the night. The house, thoughnew, was essentially Greek. My diary for that date con-tains the following war-report: Pitched camp at lo p. m.,assured by local authorities that the enemy had been drivenfrom the neighborhood ; therefore no powder was ^ere attacked at midnight ; enemys loss, seven killed, ^ g ft f^ ^ ^r V ii!» iL ^^ a7 .«<^HM M i §m^ ■ l%4 ^- ^^^^^^m \ ,. ^^^^^vM^.. ^-^^ \ *^ ^^m ^^^^^^^^^H^^^j^H^^fl^aK^ Kt )< ^^jtsSK^M ™ ^1 Hpi^^^HP -i A GROUP OF PROMINENT CITIZENS three wounded. Our injuries slight, but very issued to Captain Papadopoulos not to credit assur-ances of optimistic friends in future, but to pepper theenemy regardless of the feelings of our hosts. Thereafterwe eschewed the hospitality of local notabilities and lodgedin wayside inns or khans, as they are called, where,without hurting the hosts fee
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