. The rulers of the Mediterranean. y, with new streets andnew public buildings, and a new King and RoyalPalace. It is like a little miniature. There is alittle army, chiefly composed of officers, and aminiature cabinet, and a beautiful miniature uni-versity, and everybody knows everybody else; andwhen the King or Queen drives forth, the guardturns out and blows a bugle, and so all Athens,which is always sitting at the cafes around thesquare of the palace, nods its head and says, The Queen is going for a drive, or, HerMajesty has returned early to-day, and thencontinues to clank its sword and t
. The rulers of the Mediterranean. y, with new streets andnew public buildings, and a new King and RoyalPalace. It is like a little miniature. There is alittle army, chiefly composed of officers, and aminiature cabinet, and a beautiful miniature uni-versity, and everybody knows everybody else; andwhen the King or Queen drives forth, the guardturns out and blows a bugle, and so all Athens,which is always sitting at the cafes around thesquare of the palace, nods its head and says, The Queen is going for a drive, or, HerMajesty has returned early to-day, and thencontinues to clank its sword and to twirl its mus-tache and to sip its coffee. Modern Athenstends towards the Frank in dress and habit ofthought. The men have adopted his costume,and the women wear little flat curls like theFrench ladies in Le Figaro, and peaked bonnetsand high heels. The national costume of the Greeks is takenfrom the Albanians, but it is much more honoredin the breach than in the observance. Like allnational costumes, it is only worn, except for. MODERN ATHENS igc political effect and before a camera, by the lowerclasses, and also by three regiments of the see it in the streets, but it is not so univer-sally popular as one would suppose from the pict-ures of Athens in the illustrated papers and bythe photographs in the shop-windows. It is amost remarkable costume, and as widely differentfrom the flowing robe and short skirt of the earlyGreeks as men in accordion petticoats and heavywhite tights and a Zouave jacket must evidentlybe. In the country it still obtains, and it is thefarmers and peasants and their wives and the sol-diers who supply the picturesque element of dressto the streets of the city. It is an inscrutable problem why, with allthe national costumes in the world to chooseand pick from, the world should have decidedupon the dress of the Frank, that is, of the for-eigner—ourselves. In Spain the peasants havediscarded their knickerbockers and short jackets,even in the co
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