Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1919 — Windows in the Philippines. [ARTICLE]

Windows in the Philippines.

One curious thing noted by Americans in the Philippines was the use by natives of seashells in lieu of window glass. There is a bivalve mollusk, native to the waters of that part of the’/world, which has a shell seven or eight inches In diameter, so thin as to be translucent. It is plentiful and costs nothing. Glass is expensive.