Evening Star Newspaper, February 9, 1930, Page 122

| iHE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS WERE THE FIRST 0 USE COLUMNS TO SUPPORT A ROOF (2800 B.C). THE USE OF COLUMNS WAS LATER ADOPTED BY THE GREEKS, WHO DEVELOPED THREE DISTINCT ARCHITECTURAL Anm-mAfH“fifimM Comes SHAFT —>! | (corumn) STYLES OR "ORPERS. THESE WERE—~-@-DOQIC-- DISTINGUISHED> THE ATRIUM AT THIS TIME WAS A COMBINATION LWING-ROOM, DINING-ROOM, RITCHEN AND BATH. —° HE ROMAN HOUSE MARKS AN INTERESTING STAGE N THE EVOLUTION OF HOMES. —— o THE EARLY ROMAN HOUSE LISUALLY CONSISTED OF TWO ROOMS WITH A WALLED GARDEN IN THE REAR.. COLONNADED WERE BUILT ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATRIUM, AND A COLONNADED PORCH ENCLOSING A GARDEN SPACE, PATTERNED AFTER THE GIREEK PERI- STYLE, WAS ADDED IN THE REAR. UNNING WATER WAS PIPED INTO THE HOUSES FROM THE CrTY SUPPLY, AND> SOME HOMES EVEN BOASTED TILE PIPES FOR CARRY- ING HOT AIR TO HEAT THE ROOMS, ight 1930 by J.Carroll Mansgield ) BY MASSIVE COLUMNS WITH PLAIN CAPITALS AND NO BASES, Homes Through N : PECULIAR FEATURE OF TNE ROMAN HOUSE WAS THE TILED ROOF WHICH SLOPED INWARD TOWARD AN OPENING THROUGH WHICH THE RAINWATER FELL INTO A POOL. IN THE ATRIUM. ///,, P .F‘rEQ‘rHE ROMANS HAD MADE THEMSELVES MASTERS OF TME AN- CIENT WORLD>, THE ATRIUM BE- CAME A SPLENDAD> RECEPTION ROOM HULED WITH OBJECTS OF ART, THE SPOWLS OF MANY CONQUERED LANDS. : SPITE OF ALL THESE. INSIDE IMPROVEMENTS,THE EXTERIORS OF ROMAN MOMES REMAINED BARE AND UNATTRACTIVE, MANY OF THE FINEST HOUSES MAD A ROW OF TINY SHOPS ACROSS THE FRONT, GABLE (PEDIMENT) @) - 10NIC -+~ siEnbER GRACE - FUL COLUMNS WITH BASES AND SCROLLED CAP\TALS, ~ THE ATRIUM POOL WAS USED FOR BATHING AND WASMING - WATER FOR DRINKING AND COOK- ING HAD TO BE CARRIED IN FROM THE NEAREST WELL. ———— « .HE DINING ROOM WAS CALLED THE “TRICLINIUM" BECAUSE- THE ROMANS ATE WHILE RE- CLINING ON COUCHES ARRANGED ON THREE SIDES OF THE DINING TABLE. T (arroL ANSFICLD ~—— .TTHE SAME TIME OTHER NATIONS WERE IMPROVING THEIR MOMES AND DEVELOPING AN INDIVIDVAL STYLE OF ARCHITECTURE. ABOVE 1S THE HOME OF A PERSIAN NOBLE AT PERSEPOLIS IN 350 B.G., ° @' CorINTHIAN -- HEAVY BASES AND ORNATZ CAPITALS, —* iHE ATRIUM, WITH 1TS BROAD SHALLOW POOL., OFFERED THE CHILDREN OF TME HOUSEMOLD A FINE PLACE 70 PLAY. HOMES BECAME SO LUXURIOUS INTHEIR APPOINTMENTS THAT EVEN IN THE KITCHENS ALL THE UTENSILS WERE MADE OF TNE FINEST BRONZE. - L R i _erze IS THE TYPE OF HOUSE IN WHICH THIE PEOPLEE OF PALESTINE WERE LWVING IN THE TIME OF CHRISTY. MANY SIMILAR NOUSES ARE STiLL 70 BE SEEN N THE HoLY LAND- — o 70 Bt CONTINUE> ~—*