Show BERMUDA HOUSES durability of the peculiar mt alato rial used in their construction in speaking of the bermudas rev john snyders snyder said laid one of the prettiest sights I 1 believe I 1 ever saw was when ident I 1 went ill up into one of their lighthouses and looked out upon the islands below on oil the one hand arid and tile the wide ocean on the other tho the landscape was green with paints and all kinds of tropical plants and the carth was waa carpeted with grass graas the native bill build idin in small villa villages cs which dot this country on 0 n every side s ilac aal tho the a white tops of eo cIvill ti these les village a a house Ii ouss down amon among the the palms and ad with a cattat of green grass for a background C make a picture ono one must see to ill recia tp the air Js is balmy bah ily and alitt said to T be a wonderful c curative u r N e for 0 r e s t 1 i p t i v at llyl 0 ii ili ossi of I 1 aliat 1 i t material a t e a 1 do they build houses in bermuda of coral that is to say of a stone found about two t wo feet under the soil at almost any ally point this is the work of the coral insect arid and has been covered by the soil in the process of forming 13 the island docs idies the stone stand the th a weather and answer for all building purposes ol 01 yes its durability is sonic somewhat what remarkable who when we consider what the stone is and tile iho way in which it is obtained the masons go out and remove the two feet of soil which cover the stone and they find it as soft as wood perhaps softer than some kinds of our hickory the they cut it out into blocks blacks of any desirable size or shape and leave it exposed to the air a short time when it becomes as hard as real stone and stands the weather accordingly you spoke of tile the village housetops house tops topa being white what makes thern them so sop every peasant atit and resident of the bermudas is is supposed to paint his housetop house top at least once a year the covering is of stone and sometimes almost ilat flat and as cistern water is their only source of water supply they paint their roofs that they in may t y bett better a r turn the ille water into their cisterns very verv often you can sue see about the forts large surfaces arranged in tills way to tur turn n water into t lie cisterns the he parth earth is removed off a largo space of stone and tills is so arran arranged mod is as to turn the water into a common cistern the stone is all painted and as I 1 said looks very beautiful when one looks down from the ila lighthouse oh at this snowwhite substance anion among tile the green reen grass grass st louis lonis republican Republic am |