The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, February 12, 1920, Page 6, Image 6
FOK A GHKATKK JMItlSALKM.
Ancient City May Again 15ecome
M ighty Metroix>lis.
Palestine may soon take its place
among industrial nations, and ancient
Jerusalem may become a humming
part of modern trade, if projects
in contemplation are realized.
One such project is that of budding
a tunnel from the Dead Sea to the
Mediterranean, passing under Jerusalem,
which would utilize the variation
in levels to provide water power
for stations along the way.
In this connection the National
I Geographical Society has issued, from
? its Washington headquarters, the following
bulletin, based on a communication
to the society by John D.
Whiting:
"Few realize that the manners and
customs which prevailed in the Holy
Land in Biblical days are still unchanged,
even after an interval of 3,000
years.
"The present day villages are located,
as a rule, either on the tops of
hills, originally for protection, or
near some spring or source of water.
Many are built upon the foundations
of dwellings whose origin
dates back thousands of years. There
does not exist a single example of a
\ - peasant village that has been founded
in modern times.
"Many have pictured Mary and
Joseph, after arriving at the 'inn' at
Bethlehem, and finding no room, be'ing
forced to turn into some barn
built of timber with lofty roof, hay
mows, wooden mangers, and stalls for j
cattle and sheep. Such a stable has
been the subject of many medieval
and modern artists, but it does not
present a really true picture. Let us
consider the old style village home
that is most common in the districts
around Jerusalem and Bethlehem for
that will give us a better idea of what
happened on that first Christmas day.
"The village streets are crooked, '
narrow, and unpaved. As in many
of the countries of the Orient, farmers
live close together for protection,
and not on their lands; therefore in
the villages there are no open fields
or gardens; but house is next to
house, except for the small walled-in
inclosures or sheep-folds through
which one generally passes in going
into a dwelling.
"The house itself consists of one
large room, usually square. The walls
from 3 to 4 feet thick, are built of
blocks of stone roughly dressed and
and laid in mortar, roofed over with a
dome, also 01 stone, ine ouisiue ui
this roof is covered with a coating of
mortar made of clay, which, on being
pressed with a small stone roller or
pounded with a board, becomes hara
and compact enough to shed the rain.
"A step, outside staircase, unprotected
by any railings, is built up to
the roof, for the surface must be repaired
at times. The flat, open space
of the roof also forms a handy place
/ on which to dry figs and raisins, and
during the hot weather the family
may sleep there at night.
"Entering the door, we find that
about two-thirds of the space is devoted
to a raised masonry platform,
some 8 to 10 feet above the ground
and supported by low domed arches.
This raised space, called el mastaby,
is the part occupied by the family,
while the lower part is used for the
cattle and flocks. A few narrow stone'
steps lead up to the mastaby, and a
couple of small windows pierce the
wall, high up from the ground. These,
as a rule, are the only means of admitting
light and furnishing ventilation
to the entire house.
\ < "On one side is an open fireplace,
with a chimney running through the
wall and terminating on the roof, often
in an old water jar whose bottom
has been knocked out, and so becomes
a sort of smokestack. Many houses
have no chimneys at all; many holes
through the wall or windows, furnish
the only exit for the smoke,
which on winter days fairly fills the
house.
"The furniture is very simple?a
crudely decorated bridal chest, a
straw mat, or heavy woven wooden
f % rug, which covers part of the floor,
and mattresses with thick quilts and
hard pillows, which at night are
spread on the floor. The cooking
utensils are few in number?one clay
cooking pot, a couple of large wooden
bowls in which to kneed the dough
and a couple of smaller ones used to
? eat from.
"Having inspected the dwelling
portion, which at once is kitchen,
store-room, bed-room, and livingroom,
we descend the steps into what
the natives call the stable.
"Below the mastaby, or raised
platform, just described, among arches
so low that a man can scarcely
v(alk erect, are the winter quarters
of the goat and sheep, to snut me
flocks in, these arched entrances are
obstructed with bundles of brush
. used as firewood for the winter. The
rest of the floor space, which is open
to the ceiling, is devoted to the few
work cattle and perhaps a donkey or
camel. Around he wall are primitive
mangers for the cattle, built of rough
slabs of stone placed on edge and
plastered up with mortar.
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"Often the owner makes a small:
raised pla-e on which he sleeps at
night to keep belter watch over the j
newly born lambs, lest in the crowded i
quarters some get crushed or trodden
down bv the older ones. Here he often
i
sleeps by preference on a cold night, j
for he says the breath of the animals
keeps him warm.''
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