Show t THE GREEK IN UTAH IS NOT THE I GREEK IN GREECE i A few days ago several Greeks in this city were arrested by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for literally starving fourteen or more horses to when they were discovered to have a barn full of It is difficult to reconcile ourselves to associating the crimes and barbarities of the Greeks that have come to this with what we read of the modern as well as the ancient Greeks in their own I There is a possibility of an error in identifying these men as If they are has Greece chosen America as a dumping ground for monstrosities' and mental U modern Greeks are of very composite yet are an compact and homogeneous Out of more than two millions which constitute the present population of only about speak any other language than and only profess any other religion than the and all draw well glorifying with one another in the same memories of t a common and sharing in the same ambition for a threat I The national character of the Greeks is a matter upon which authorities take very contrary some idealizing them foolishly and others depreciating them most They seem to have the faults and the excellences fit their famous They have their quickness of parts and heir moderation of are full of mental fond of s keen for discussion as in the days of and as eager for 1 novelty as in those of Their J thirst for knowledge is indeed as well as their to Boys will put themselves to any discomfort in order to get to students t the university never missed a Jay from their classes during the evolution of but regularly the lectures with the as of the national guards in trended their domestic servants are often found in spare hours learning their letters or doing their They in in in what Tuckerman calls the most distinctive thing about them which degenerates often into the weapon of the which could not fail to be forged under their long Turkish They are courteous and very sunny in disposition and entire strangers to so that both suicide and insanity are unknown among They are the most temperate of Christian and the most Though they make a good deal of strong they drink little and eat as sparingly as they The common people live on one meal a and the richer on A little maize and vegetables steeped in oil make the staple Their rate of illegitimacy is lower than that of any other European In other countries from 3 to 22 per cent of the births are in Greece only per cent are Two striking characteristics of the Greeks are their patriotism their local attachment to their which stand out in the stronger relief because it is a quality in which their the are entirely wanting and their love not only of liberty but specially of They are in spirit the most democratic They have no nobility as of to be a Greek is itself to be Mahaffy says that common mule boy is a gentleman and fully your sitting in the room at and joining in the conversation at such their jealousy of social that he was often told by Greeks that the only reason why they tolerated a foreign king was that they could not endure to be under one of themselves It is the same temper ostracized and doubtless it springs largely from their vanity and which even the most favorable witnesses own to be among their j prominent They have a deep which they pains to in their superiority over other and in which they conceive their superiority more especially to dwell is in their intellectual |