Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06
IN The FIELD OF ELECTRICITY
Decorative Possibilities Of Electric Light in
Modern Homes.
WIRELESS TELEPHONY NEXT ON THE LIST
sample Instance of Cooperative TeIe-
phone service-Inventors De-
vising Electrical signals
for Railroads.

Tor Hnilronda,
The very general introduction Of cleo
tricity in city and country homes has caused
the Wholesale elimination OF the objection
able brass and iron chandelier. The archi-
lecture Of the best modern houses allows
chandeliers only in particularly large and
stately reception rooms, drawing rooms and
ball rooms. The effect is pretentious and
reasonable; they insist in less spacious and
ceremonious apartments where the electric
lamp Is all sufficient. These same sensible
architects, aided by the house decorators,
have set about enforcing their new rule by
Offering the householder types Of electric
lamps that defy criticism. Electric lamps
have not only been marvelously improved,
but so beautihed that they are used on the
desk and dining table, where until recently,
they were unanimously tabooed. The in
candescent burner gave too fierce a light for
eyes or compilations to endure, but the
white eye Of that pltiless flame has lately
been softened and in place Of candles at q
recent dinner party an exquisite electric
lamp occupied the post OF honor on the
center OF the table.
The pedestal and supporting column is Of
silver gilt, about which are grouped the
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group Of lncandescent burners above these
lovely girls are first covered with rose white
glass globes and finally yelled by shades
made of numberless strings OF pearls. The
pearls, all of the rose-white tint, and the
electric light passing through these sub
stances, emitted a radiance that made all
parts Of the table comfortably brilliant and
yet reflected a softened glow on the young
OF elderly faces about the board.
One lamp manufacturer of particular
thoughtfulness, who keenly realizes that
feminine favor ensures the popularity OF
any novelty, has brought out a lovely
yelled lamp for a reading table, or per-
haps It is to be especially recommended as
a desirable and becoming light near which
to sit when reading or embroidering in the
evening. The shade, frame, shaft and foot
Of the lamp are OF exquisitely worked
bronze In three colors, and while there is
an oil cistern and burner provided. the
use Of electricity is advocated and ar
ranged for. The electric flame is captive
under two globes, one Of clear and the
other of what is called reading glass. and
finally the shade is draped with a rosy
gossamer made of silk and silver threads.
A lamp draped with this material is almost
guaranteed to take ten years of lines and
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Unshaded candles. and ninety-hve in
number. and all Of the finest wax, were
burned not long since In the superb colonial
dining and drawing room of a wealthy
woman who was entertaining in her new
home The unshaded wax candles is the
rule when your rooms are decorated and
furnished in the Washington fashion. A
good. unshaded wax taper burns with a
steady and a golden light that is exceed
ingly agreeable, and one OF the modes of
the moment is for one or two OF the gentle
men, who rise from the table as the women
leave, to seize candelbra from the table
or sideboard, and, holding back the por-
%tierres, lift the flaming tapers hlgh to light
the fair ones on their way to the drawing
room.
Wireless Telephony.
Now that wireless telegraphy has proven
itself practicable, at least within certain
distance limits, inventors are at work en-
deavoring to perfect wireless telephony.
Electricity reports that in England the
system invented by Messrs. Armstrong and
Orling is being seriously considered. II the
invention does all that is claimed for it,
says a cable dispatch. there will be a revo-
luton in the existing system OF telephony,
which is sadly needed in London, where the
telephone system is said to be growing more
unsatisfactory every day. II seems that the
experiments in wireless telephony recently
conducted in Manchester have so impressed
the local authorities that they are about to
apply for Parliamentary powers to establish
a telephone service in competition with the
National Telephone company. At Glasgow
1t is claimed, where a municipal competi-
ton service has already been established,
the pnrnoratfon has nlaoad Zee avohanoo ..
the disposal Of the inventors in order that
the possibilities OF the system may be thor
oughly tested. For months past the in
ventors have been working In a secluded part
Of Buckinghamshire, perfecting their in
%vention. Demonstration have been held
from time to time before representatives
Of British and foreign governments. Mr..
Armstrong in a recent interview is reported
as saying:
THE system differs from Mr.. Marconi's
in essentials. Mr.. Marconi has created a
force to overcome a resistance. We are
utilizing ripples in the electricity of earth
or water, which can be created with as
much certainty as ripples can be caused in
a pond by throwing a stone"
When questioned as to its cost Mr.. Arm
strong said that in all probability a sub
scriber would purchase outright an instru-
ment costing from $40 to 500 and would pay
a royalty of IS. $40 or s25. fixed by the
municipality or responsible authority. 1t is
claimed that there is no possibility OF read
ing another persons messages. Each In
strument is tuned to a corresponding in
strument and these communicate.
Another inventor engaged in trying 10
solve the wireless telephony problem is NJ.
Louis Malche. For this purpose the prince
Of Monaco has placed his domain at his
disposal. NJ. Maiche, who, according TO the
Electrical Review, London, is well known
for his extensive researches in the domain
Of telegraphy and telephony, made expert
ments in the transmission Of words and
signals on the Morse code by earth currents.
Electrical Cure for Consumption.
A cable dispatch to the New York Herald
from London states that a DR.. T. ]. Boken-
ham. a West End surgeon. who has been
experimenting for some time with high fire.
quency electrical current as a cure for con-
sumption, has succeeded In obtaining strik-
ing results. The patient is laid in a re-
clining position and a current at a pressure
of $4,000 volts is applied to his or her chest