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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photograph by Ernest L. Harris 



FOUR YOUNG ADAUANS AND THEIR PLAYMATE 



Just as Smyrna is the center of Greek hopes for influence in Asia Minor, Adalia is the 

 city where Italian ambitions find expression. Adalia is the most picturesque city on the 

 southern coast of Anatolia and many of its buildings are richly ornamented. There is a 

 small inner harbor and a larger outer harbor, both of which at one time could be closed 

 with chains. 



The heaven-taught poet and the enchanting 



-train, 

 These are the products of a peaceful reign. 



For some of the successful people of 

 Ionia, pleasure consisted in the possession 

 of objects of oriental luxury, in pomp 

 and in the lazy idleness to which the 

 Eastern climate always tempts us ; but 

 for those who cared to attain to higher 

 things, the opportunity came in the 



spirit being free from sordid care and 

 from the pressure of daily need, with 

 leisure to think. 



The culture of the age depended, how- 

 ever, not only upon economic causes, but 

 also to a large degree upon the inspira- 

 tion given by intercourse with other na- 

 tions, bringing about exchange of ideas 

 and increased knowledge. 



The age of the Wise Men was before 



