The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-12
WINDOWS HAVE
 THEIR CHARM

romance, and especially in poetry; nor does this seem surprising, for their fundamental office of letting in light and air lends itself easily to poettcal treatment, while windows have serv- ed, both actually and symbolbically, as places from which the larger world outside might be surveyed. The his tory of windows shows that they have gone through long series of devel- opments, since they first had their be- ginnings, so far as England was con- cerned, in the shape of 'lowp" holes or Hoop" holes, which has been inter preted rightly or wrongly, as meaning Heap" holes, through which a certain amount of air and light could come in and the smoke from the chimney less fire of those days could go out. An interpretation of the word win dow, as wind hole" follows the same idea, says the Christian Science Mon itor.
 It has been said, by an authority on the subject, that the smaller the window the greater, in all probability, the age of. the house in which 1t is found; and in the days before glass was in common use, 1t was compre- hensible enough that people should prefer to keep their windows well on the small side. This fact was forci- bly, impressed upon the writer by the experiences of a stay in Greek peas ants house, in the mountains, which had large windows, only to be closed by putting to the massive wooden shutters and excluding the light as well as the wind.
 Aubrey, writing in the seventeenth century, declares that: "Glass win dows, except in churches and gentle | mems houses, were rare before the | time of Henry VIII. In my own re- i membrance," he says, before the ! civil wars, copyholders and poor peo- i pie had none in Herefordshire, Mon- | mouthshire and Salop; 1t is so still" In the time of Henry VIII, linen | dipped in oil is said to have been used to fill the windows frames, in some
 cases, instead Of glass.
 When glass became more common, l the size of the windows increased to ] such an extent that there was ten 1 dency to overdo the matter alto gether as exemplifed in the case of Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire, Of | which 1t was said:
 "Hardwick Hall,
 More glass than wall"
 Windows are important features in the decorative aspect of house, from | the point of view of appearance. In | the country, and sometimes in the | town, too, the window may well take I the place of a picture, or, rather, of
 8 picture frame, for the picture itself 1 lies outside. This aspect of a window
 when the picture so framed, be
 1t garden, landscape or buildings, is 8 beautiful one, deserves attention
 when the decorations of the room are l being considered, so that 1t may re-
 ceive it's full value
 Sometimes especially when the
 window looks out upon a garden, 2
 very charming effect, which seems tt
 bring the out-of-doors and the in doors into close relationship with ont 1 another, may be obtained by hangins
 mirror, by preference one of tn,
 round, convex ones, in such, a posi-
 ton that 1t reflects the scene outside
 The example of the Lady of shalot
 is not to be recommended. nor mos
 certainly, that of those people wh
 may almost rank as her modern SIC
 cessors, and are to be found, most a
 them, in the. towns of continents
 Europe, who places a small mirror a
 such an angle outside their room that 1t enables them to watch all tn = passers-by without being seen them l selves Nevertheless, Q skillful cor 2 nection between the positions of tn t mirror and the window may hay T good results.
 V What lies on the outside of the wir t dow may exercise a considerable e, @ feet upon that which is found on th
 inner side of 1t. For instance. on - woman who, during the years she ha l. spent in the country, had alway q without quite knowing the reaso h why. kept the coloSing of her room It quiet and low in tone, making use Il creams ambers, dull pinks and so ol l. found. when she moved into Iare y city, that a marked change took plac e in the color scheme of her room 3, and that the most vivid tints appea
 ed to her; on thinking the matte . oyer, she came to the conclusion tn; IT the gay hues to be found outside tf IF window in the garden and the Iant = scape surrounding her country hon d had supplied all the color she wante U where as the more neutral sints of tE q town left a want, which found 1 10 satisfaction in color inside instead
 outside her room.