Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1911 — Lattice Screens for Inns. [ARTICLE]

Lattice Screens for Inns.

Maoy quaint old inns are to be seen in King’s Lynn and the sign of the Lattice Inn is one of the oldest in existence. In the olden times the windows of inns were kept open, and in order to hide the revelers within a lattice screen. {Sainted red, was placed in the window. There is an old saying: "As well known by my wit as an alehouse by a red lattice.* The lattices continued up to the beginning of the eighteenth century, and when they disappeared from the windows they wwe adopted as signs. The latter are getting very scarce and it is questionable whether half a dosen could be found in this oountry.—Cycling.