The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-28

AS you leave IL
is your last impression.
Your first and last thought Is of
the elegant and Inviting home, or
else OF the broken-down steps and
the screen with its big hole for the
Cog to pass through and the small
hole for the cat.
In the architecture OF the mid.
die ages the doorways were strik-
ing and important features, exhib-
iting in tine character of the mould
ings and ornaments the style and
period and usefulness of the edi-
flee. They had the richest embel-
llshments and were often adorned
with sculpture representing saints,
grotesque figures. or historical and
astronomical symbols.
Artists delight in getting a
glimpse of a distant scene through
an arched opening in a bridge, a
gate, or a gap. for while the view
may be beautiful in itself, the great
frame 1t is set in enhances 1t four
fold.
The gate" as n barrier to be
removed and as an entrance TO be
passed is OF constant occurrence in
figurative language and symbolic
use. The gates of heaven and hell
Dryden says the latter are open
night and day-the gates OF death
and darkness. the wide and narrow
gates that lead to destruction and
life, all are familiar phrases in the
Bible and other literature. In Greek
and Roman legend II is taught that
dreams pass through gates of trans
parent horn II true, and through
Opaque gates of ivory II false.
Wa niptura bauuap 40 a plaNa ha.
yond that has an entrance whose
gates are golden and stand ajar, n
portal all who seek eternal life
pray to enter. An entrance TO n har-
Dor is a gateway, one that is a
haven IN times of storm when the
ship rides past the rocky cliffs and
into safety.
We hear so much of that gate Oft
times hard to open, the gate OF
opportunity. an avenue to greater
usefulness, n passage, n portal, a
beginning.
At oxford and Cambridge univer-
stiles TO break gates" is to stay
out Of college after the hour to
which a student has been restricted.
IL is "A common expression among
tho students.
The entrance through the enclos-
ing walls of a city or fertilization
has always been a place of the ut.
most Importance. In the east the
gate was. and still Is. in many Mo-
hammedan countries, tho central
place OF civic life. Here was the
seat Of Justice and OF audience. the
most important market place, the
assembling point where men gath
cred to exchange the news.
Some OF our most beautiful mem
tai pictures as well as those on can
a are associated with the gates
OF the saci ed cities. The hill OF
Samaria is given to us through a
magnificent arched gate in the city
walls; Paul and Barnabas are shown
| without the gates as they were
driven from their mission at Anti
och, and st. Stephens Gate is per-
petuated and seen 10 be an impress
siye and busy passage-way.
The gates into n walled town
were long ago the chief spots on
which the attack centered In war,
and the feature common through
out the ages OF thanking or sur
mounting towers and galleries over
the entrance are TO be found on
some OF those standing today. Until
The coming of gunpowder, the In
genuity OF military engineers was
exhausted In accommodating the most
| complicated defense around the
' gateways, and the strength OF a