WINDOW

means literally ‘Wind-eye,* but modem sanitaiy science insists on windows being only intended^ to light, and not to ventilate. Very many economical, but ignorant, housewives carpets—not pull down their blinds so as to save their understanding that the sanitary value of the sunlight far more than compensates for the damage done to the carpet. In the East windows have always looked, not into the streets, but into an interior court, round which the houses are built. Amongst the Romans mica was used instead of gla , hom coming into vogue instead of the mica in the 2nd century after Christ. The first distinct mention of gla is made by Gregory of Tours in the 4th century, and St. Wilfrid (q.v.) filled the windows of York Minster with gla about 670 A.D. Gla began to be used in the windows of private houses in England at the end of the 12th century. of Gothic architecture, as the pillar was of Cla ical architecture. In Early Gothic the windows were small and narrow, with round tops. In Early English they were lengthened and made pointed at the top. In the Decorated Period they were filled up with mullions in the lower half and tracery in the upper half, and in the late Tudor Period they were flattened and made rectangular. Between the Decorated and the Tudor Period came the Perpendicular, the architects of which sometimes had the impertinence to alter beautiful windows of the older style into the lanky models of their own style.