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MODERN MAIDS OF ATHENS, BIRTH CONTROL BY THE SUN.

HOW THE BELLES OF GREECE COMPARE WITH OỪA ENG-. LISH GIRLS.

· {B1" ARTHUR LYNCH.]

The more it changes, the more it is the same thing." That was my first and somewhat disappointing impression in Athens, where I had hoped to find strik. ing points of feature or of dress that distinguished these fascinating. Greeka from the types we know in London.

MANKIND AFFECTED LIKE PLANTS,

UNWANTED BABIES.

The remarkable theory that we are all, in effect, children of the sun that the aun causes populations to increase, and decline just as it affects crops-is put forward by Dr. Charles A. Bentley, Director of Public Health to the Govern ment of Bengal and Professor of Public: Health at Calcutta Medical College.

Dr. Bentley has been attending a series. of conferences in England on child wel fare.

No. King Fashion rules from Paris to Palermo, from Peebles to Byzantium, and he has reduced' the womanhood of

Eugenists to-day," he said' to I the Continent to one dull level of uni-Daily Express representative, ** Bre formity.

entirely overlooking the question of "Piccadilly "Oxford-street 1"...solar radiation and its influence on

I asked myself seriously was it worth births. while to come thousands of miles and, incidentally, pay a robber company 358 francs for the transport of a trunk. which, incidentally, they lost on the way-in order to see all this' again ?

-CROP CYCLE.

It has been proved in America and arop cycle in India that there is a plant life. There is to-day evidence that ihis same induence is at work amerg human beings, and that there is a cycle in, births. It is matter as far beyond man's control as are the tides.

AT. "FİRST SIGHT. The women of Athens are at first sight as like as pens to the women of London,

France has long experienced a birth- the women of Paris, the women of Berlin.rate which approximates to her death.

purely biological, and not due to birth Prevcution.

I was reminded of the time when I went rate. It would appear that this is a te a popular ball in Madrid, Alled with the hops of beholding dazzling Spanish beauties in mantillas floating awan-like into the room, and when, after seeing type after type arriva in the flesh, could only exclaim:Whitechapel Jove ""

But as we gazed, and the study of pretty woman is not always tedious, noticed marks of distinction.

"Look at their thick ankles," I heard an Englishwoman nearby observe.

I looked. Yes, their ankles were thick, and as the fashions of the day allow not only greater freedom of movement, but also greater freedom of observation, it was possible to 'notice that the thickness did not begin or end in the ankles.

The Greek ladies are, in fact, of a stockier build than their Northern sisters. I regret a little to have to use such a word as stooky; it does not sound feminine. Still less is it sugges- tive of the sylph-like grace that the old sculptors and the classic poets admired; but it is there, and it has come to stay in modern Athens, unescapably

Rodin, the great sculptor, used to say that beauty did not belong to any type exclusively; the test was rather in the full development and perfect balance of the type itself, and so these thick ankled ladies pleased one person at least, if only me.

"In Bengal the birth-rate has declined by 30 per cent. in the last twenty-ve years. Yet no one with any knowledge of conditions-in Bengal could for one momeat hold that this decline was in any was due to conscious efforts at birth prevention. The fall has been most marked in those areas which are in every way the most prosperous.

The year in which one is born may be as important as who one's parents are and what one's environment is. People born in the great influenza epide mic of the nineties suffered and died in the largest numbers in the recent epidemic. Those children born in the recent epidemic will suffer most in the next."

PREJUDICE..

Dr. Bentley maintains that children are no longer wanted in England. He is shocked at the prejudice which, he says, exists against children.

the last five years," he said. "I find "I have been in England twice during

that in spite of the so-called interest- which is taken in child welfare, in reality children are no longer wanted here.

My own experiences with my wife and two children show the general attitude. We sought accommodation in Loadan, and visited hotel after hotel, There is a sort of prejudice, kept alive but w were turned away again and in England, that the Southern Euro-again because there were two children peans are a decadent people,..and we in the party. In France, on the other translate that to mean a deficiency in hand, children are always welcome. strength and staying power. That is not the case, however, for no build could be better adapted to produce those qualities than that of the thick-ankled ladies I bave just described.

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NO BOBBED HAIR.

As to the rest, the costume is much the as in London, although no Greck- woman, would buy a ready-made dress. She also refused to bob her hair, and though the lips are painted thick, one has a vague impression at length, as a crowd-goes-by-in-Stadium-Street, for example, of a darker tint of skin, a demeanour, if not less attractive, at least lesa consciously attracting than in Piccadilly, a shorter stature, and dum pier figures set on the stocky lega..

"At the conferences I attended, the phrase, the unwanted child, was con tinually mentioned. It became apparent that the conferences were as much con cerned with the prevention of children as "with the furtherance of child wel. fare,"

for beauty, the simple blouses and the short skirts of the modern women have a finer Beauty.

NOT DISAPPOINTED. Disappointed with Athenian beauty Never i

Here is a picture--a blue sky, a garden on the left with organes shining amid the green leaves; on the right window "I hate a dumpy woman! Byron half-opened, framing the bust of a young wrote; but it was he who also wrote the girl who, ali unconscious of the admira love song to the Maid of Athens.

tion of the passers-by, sits enjoying the The maid, when she set fire to the day-black hair, drawn back and coiled. poet'e inflammable heart, was only 12 in a Grecian knot dark eyebrows that years of age, and that brings in another looked as if they were pencilled, luminous point of distinction between the Etern eyes veiled at times by the "jetty of the eyelashes, a perfect con- and the Nordic type. They fringes develop earlier and they fade sooner. tour, not quite classic, but pleasing-in Even the Maid of Athens, when she had the regular lines and placid expression become Mrs. Black, lost all but the of this young Madonna type. traces of her divine beauty. To put it The pure classic type of the old sculp- brutally, the Southern belles become fat tors1 Greek archaeologists tell me that and heavy-looking,

it may be. found now and then in the islands, but they doubt if it was ever the Prevailing type of the Greeks. Yet I

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saw it once.

Another noticeable feature among the passers-by in any of the Athenian streets is the comparatively small number of the

Overlooking the plain of Marathon: I women, not more than one in ten. In sat down to dream for an hour of the the old days of the glory of Athens only. olden days, when suddenly I saw a young the women who had lost their respect girl before me, with flowers in her hand. ability-the Hetairai-had the opportuShe had blue eyes, a gentle expression, nity of mixing freely in company. and--wonder of wonders:- straight Now-a-days the Hatairai have vanished.

OLD COSTUMES.

From this I was led to conclude that, in spite of legendary reputation, Athens was a very moral city; but a Greek friend of mine advised me otherwise. The external appearance, especially of the streets,, is deceptive.

nose that continued the line of har fore-" head. For a moment I stared at her 5, if he had been a dryad.

Then I gave her a coin. Without a word. she disappeared as suddenly as she had come

In the heat of the day, from 1 to 3 AN EASY WAY TO STOP

ali busitess life is at a standstill. Every- one takes siesta. In the fashionable world the siessa is prolonged, and it is

not till 10 or 11 at night that society

in Athens wakes up. k.

Then begins a whirl of enjoyment-

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INDIGESTION !

It is one of the easiest things in the world

drives to restaurants, gay suppera where to get rid of fatulence, wind, heartburn and the wine flows freely, dancing--they are other forms of indigestion arising from an

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dancing till rosy fugered excess of acidity in the stomach. Just taka warns them of adother day. The three tablets, of Bigursted". "Magnesia,

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the scid, randering it powerless to cansa baru. and thus you stop your indigeation by getting right down to the rest of the trouble. Small wonder it. ie, therefore, that thousands of grateful sufferera writs of "instant relief, im mediate cessation of pain; and the wonderfully I quick action of Birarated Magnesia, you are suffering from any form of indigestion

At Missolonghi, whither I went by in vitation to celebrate the centenary of the historic sally of the garrison besieged by the Turks, we had a display of the old costumes of the country. Here was some thing picturesque. One had a vision of the women of the time flaming forth or dyspepsia just takes dose of Bisarated Magnesin no directed, and digestive trouble in gaudy Jackets embroidered corselets, showy skirts, and the men still more piece be sure it is Bisurated". Magners you will conse to cause you worry. For your own turesquely attired with a garnishment, of pistols and scimitare. got. Better look for the registered trade- warka Biurated and Elamag, which, for Yet, after all, this was well enough the protection of the public, is printed on for a day, but for use, and finally, even every package of the world's best remedy for

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