Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1901 — ALL OF GLASS. [ARTICLE]

ALL OF GLASS.

Frenchman Has a Home Built of and Furnished with It How would you like to live in a glass bouse? Jules Henrivaux, one of the greatest French chemists, considers glass the most serviceable, available and sanitary material for building houses, says the New York World. k He has executed, says the New York World, a model building made of glass held together by angle iron. There are pipes for hot and cold water, electric wires, sewerage, everything needed for the comfort of a householder. Staircases, ceilings, wall decorations, fireplaces—all are of glass. The decorations are remarkable both for beauty of design and color. They are made of opaque glass, arranged in prisms and crystals, with facets like diamonds.. Chairs and tables are of vitrified glass, and the residence and its furniture are indestructible. The entire surface of everything, from top story to basement, can be washed clean with soap and water and dried in ten minutes. There is no dust and no cobwebs. The walls of the house are colored and entirely impenetrable to light except through window and door openings. M. Henrivaux is an enthusiast on glass. He points out that there is an inexhaustible supply of material for making glass. It can be manufactured outof sand. It never wears out. It can be molded into any Ehape. It is easily made nonbreakatye. . Paris has already begun lo her streets with glass. % Glass is made into dresses, pipes, baskets, and is now being substituted for many pieces of iron machinery.