Show BEAUTIfUL STORY I OF ci GREECE For tho the benefit h norH of ur those tholie who sho will I attend the historical drama of or Da On Damon thou mon and n 1 P 1 which will vill bo hm tire pre I in this city next Tuesday night by b tho the Philip Keene Jec ne company compan It Il may a prove proc of oC interest and value alue lo to refer briefly concerning the social l land and intellectual life of oC the ancient Greeks The chief object of or the education of or the Greeks was wag for the Interest of or be state stale aud not lIot for the interest of the tho Individual Education at Spar Sparta ta was largely gymnastic physical rather than tItan mental hilt but at Athens Athena and amid throughout hout Greece generally time tho youth received excellent mental train trainIng lug Ing from rom such masters as Plato and Aristotle It Il was only on I the boys bOS who received education and they were perhaps the most attractive the time world has bus over oer seen These boys lOyS 1 were probably probably ably better betler trainer trained than the boys of or any nn other people before or since the thedas days das of o Hellenic culture As 5 soon as aM tho time youth could lisp ho he was WIS care carefully carefully fully full taught the ho beautiful anti and Inspiring inspiring ing stories of oC national mythology and anti religion At Sparta the newborn infant was first cradled upon a shield thus syra B m the military life lIe which the Spartan citizen was required to fol foi follow follow low At M Athena Athens the child was first laid upon a mantle In which had been wrought the of Athena by b J which act was wag the Ute protection of or that patron pallon goddess Infanticide was a universal practice Ice tice among amon time tho Greeks Crooks the weakly w kl anti and anI Infant was wm cast out to todio todie todie die dio thus Ihus they tho practiced If I thoy tho 1103 did not understand unde Darwin Dar s theory theon time the survival of or the fittest Such philos philosophers as ns Pinto Plato and Aristotle saw nothing to lo condemn In this cruel emma CUB custom tom torn Upon reaching maturity tho the youth was enrolled In the list Hat of citizens The Thc standard of or average Intelligence and culture among the lie citizens of time the Greek Crook cities probably bh has hai hn never neer been surpassed by b any mimmy other people on I the earth cart hi I While It seems quIte certain that I Ithe time the strong complex emotion to which we she give time the name of love was not so I strong a passion among the Greeks as ag It is among the civilized peoples s of today yet cl these ancient Greeks possessed a largo large and rare capacity for friendship between man and anel man manA I A 4 strong and lasting attachment Ire fre existed among companions I which had all time the III tender lender clement of that lint chivalrous sentiment which time tho modern man seems capable of oC enter taming only for Cor one omme of oC the opposIte sex Thus it was that the chivalry of or Greece had Its origin and power In InI friendship lip rather than in the time love hove of oC I woman Classic literature gives gies an In of this marvelous capacity of or orthe the time Greeks Greek for friendship But Dut In J all the Innumerable ami ant worth in lii instances stances recorded In Grecian history the friendship of ot Damon and an Pythias stands as one Ouie of the most moat powerful and Inspiring examples of oC true tru and worthy attachment between man mann and anel man the time world has ever eer known This wonderful story tory of brotherly love and anel sacrifice portrayed in Damon anti and P Fy thIns shine shinei through the tho mist of cen centuries cenI I I tines as al a Il glowing tribute tributo to the time hu humanity manity of the time past 1 |