Show ROOFTOP ROOF TOP PERGOLAS ARE OLD how these popular breathing spots 4 A in the big cities first came into use in persia or Baby babelonia Babylon lonia la ages ago ome e ri rich c it or royal man lo 10 long lo 10 since I 1 R oe tt d 4 aulm buelk the first parapet ph rapet 1 foreast east a high about the edge of the broad flat root roof that covered his palace the tradition Is that he did it t please iea his wife who was mountain born rn and pined for freer air than v antlered through the barred windows her house in the ancient lowland ty so the husband built this t along the roofs edge in order that p e might spend the evenings there I 1 safety site she grew to love the place t much that later he caused to be r instructed what today would be lied a pergola 9 a kind of arbor noted ofed with thick leaved vines whose biado ado tempered the ardor of the sun brang ring the day most alost new things are but old ones xe discovered in new york today ethere there Is hardly a great apartment that has been built in the last f avo wo years that has not pro provided aided vided a place upon the root roof tor for its tenants to sit in the summer in the more expensive of these great dwellings these rooftop roof top pergolas per golas are a str striking I 1 king architectural feature large square towers at the cornera where there Is a commanding view of the city or glimpses of green trees in the parks or the shining waters of the rivers in the older apartment houses owing to the almost universal demand this summer a shift to please the tenants la Is m made ade by putting up tip a broad strip of 0 f canvas on an the roots roofs ft where here it Is practicable even tents are pitched where there Is nothing at all people flock to the root during the evening just the same bamo bringing their chairs and sit there in the darkness fanned by the breezes up tip aloft until bedtime |