The Keota news., 1922-11-03
IN HUMBLE HOMES
People Of Europa Long Satisfied
With Wretched Huts.
Even Small Degree OF Comfort Only
Came About the Beginning es
the Sixteenth Century.

VI SootbSs w.
pic have diffrrcnI kinds vt houses 10
live III. and il ls curious 10 note how
the Ideas VI people VARY ss To what
they consider il comfort as regards
. dwelling, Ot course. climate has
good deal 10 do with IL. In Burma. TOT
instance. where they certainly Know
how lo build. Tor the bu.tncsc temples
arc sos,>- OF the most magnificent in
til. world. IL il said that aa sntiss
house eau Lr constructed without .
single aaiI b~ins uscd. 50 lightly sfs
they put together. The framework 70
OF weS-i~a posts or bamboo. tightly
bound together. lhr noors Ut bamboo.
the walls of mating aud the roofs
that with palm leaves There 70
never amy upstairs so these houses. b.
cause the burmese dislike The Idea a
having snyoacs frrt above thrn
heads How comfortable they would
Lc lis OTIS Of our large hotels. q
sae ef aus tail houses sod ho~
~f-tch-d vr should bc tn Une OF tbris
alnasy little Eusss Then. sssln. base
mrslts do So sssosiish eastern p~opb
ssho cosn~ to Europe on L stsit. tnd~sd
osi- party u. Osivntals sho ohcv estse
se t@n.ioa. seeing people suans do~n
as~a step, TO basrsnrht housrss thought
that They scrv going TO another city.
lying ssmy~ here entirely below Loo
du~s. Il. dis into the sspuhd sad live
In rcvam. below vbr surface lwtei Ass
soticthins they avtes fof . ss"snSat
heard 1t anyone doing. snd u - ssld
that that interested them usnss than
ali the sights they we're shown 10
London.
tsus. Just as huus~s sssy In dtaesvnt
part. Ut the ~usid. serufsjlnk TO The
amount Il comfort prcpie ilsinx In
Shcm require. 30 have houses uf Euro
p~aa nations varied fsem oes period
q. an.shess vcsy rough sod poor In
quality al afst. but iapsostas- - In
course ef time civilization advanced
aud better things became p"ssibls. ue
III by si.w degrees shcy arrived 81
~hst they arc so~.
AZ Uss llasv. toe only strong and
substantial buildings In = couatsy wsfs
the castles Of the ksax sod Of The
aotlcs. while the people .ised In wood
ca OF mud huts. eso~dias Into The
castles f.s pruscetiuas In titae OF ~ss.
| The lisin. part Of these esstles wss
very ssnsIl sotnrtlmcs. euasistins Of
only 4 hall. where eli took their meals
aud where nus< of them slept On The
door. a chapel aud perhaps one os
mosu private rupmss II 10 said that
the French kings. even ~ late -
| plsnta Genet times. had - few rooms
In their palaces that they usually
shared = slVcpinx room With thcis
rpurticrss Later eastlcs had more &C.
svnm.,iatioa. aud ~ had the manor
house. which succeeded the castles
and which were generally stfpas
enough to stand a sicsv. being sur
rounded by 6 moat. Hut none ~ these
house. had fixed glass windows until
Henry vtirs time. and. Of course. no
cbimncyss The fireplace vas In the
middle Of the hall and the smoke used
| 4. escape by the dcpr. so living IN
| them u.u.t have been different from
ANYTHING We know. II IVES not until
the time ps Tudor sovcrcisps that
houses began to he platped solely with
view - comfort. Up to then the
cI..es consideration had always been
that OF eafcty against attack. but. by
the Sixteenth century. the country had
become so settled and peaceful that
comfort c.uIi now take ar.s place
| Christian Science Monitor.