The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-16
Fads of the New York Girl.
her Aladdin Lamp Is an Electric Bulb for Which She
... ...... Collects Shades.

Z. Frenchmen believe that any woman
may seem beauty il she can successfully
q create an atmosphere of mystery about
B herself
The New York girl is not 80 much OF an
optimist about shadows as these theorists
but she does believe that girl who
win Use her modern Aladdin lamp cor
reotly--in other words will study the ar
tstic lighting of her rooms -oan get magica |
effects and be beauty after p NJ, II she
wills 1t.
The electric light. naked and unndorned.
10 a cruel reveaicr of human defects. But
II a woman illun,inates her rooms for
beauty's sake, not Just for convenience, and IL
as careful about the tone Of her lamp shade
as she would be about the color of u gown,
she will find that the old Arabian Nights
lamp could work no greater wonders than
this modern electric bulb.
The New York girl takes the lighting OF
her home seriously. She knows that what
ever the color she selects it Ia to be all about
her, that it, will reflect in her skim add
vividness to her hair or deaden il, render
her gown becoming or ugly, and that above
all she can gain through correct lighting that
quality of personal mystery so much dearer
than all superficial beauty TO the French
man of cultivated taste.
Having once become infatuated with the
Aaddin's lamp idea, the New York girl
has made fad, of the collecting of lamps,
and she has them TO suit every nook and
corner of her house and suited to her both
in design and color efTectfrom Damascus
and Vienna, from Paris, from New York,
in hand wrought brass in cut glass in pot
terry, bead flowers, mosaic and art nouveau
effects.
It is a bit of a difficult problem OF the
Nou york g;rl T., baya lnmr,. in harmony
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WI" ',ei '"'"'s' an" S'' VI "".''' ~.
gmse her frank, rosy In'ischIhr Joy IN NE.
Fortunately il Is a winter of lamps, and
there is hardly n color or design or material
,ha, hos nat ho.n cou,hinsd i'm the now
av i"1 @ .Lsaa S'n ,I.,s,,.;', h,,ii,,
All ua, H a',u Si.au"s Iot en,f. 'Io
Inc New rork eirl na9 WhoI, loiRoileil
ner spring WIN iol VISTA ~ am, t. i"ot'
ro1lls. anu 'IiH Tni hn; n, ;,,no oon,
Soionia' anu lier ~ Ht on'
up piIa II, 49, n.S ~, an r ,,'v ' Hn
Sn,oniai lam mr. '" are the newest. with tall
Loioli '. la,ps aI nd .r,,h t,ras b",ril and
~ rrLi,o norosin;,' hal fron, wIich dangI.
III iefii a,','I ,,,,Jt, ,hnt -.
ino ~ - I Iii w., ~ IN ~ Ggh, nnd
frat were tho las, desirable Jrs,'inp room
In H.; T. w., 80, 20 ba ,,,. " e
The misSion lamns nre simnl.r and have
some little var ,o tb",,yh thew arr. ali low
and chunky and ilsually finished with iron
work There are three, IN her pretty mission
;,t;n, roon,
One l. The radically new design. with
s..ndarl az brass higbly ,o,ishni and a
shade Of hammered hrnss showing n daft
fnJu Hning AIi tho roIor in Ills indi
ridmo, room, !. in tonos Of dafTodil vel
low They are reneated in the agate shade
of tho heavy W OGDEN and iron mission
lamp' which il Suspended bv. a chain of
wrought iron.
Still nnotber mission lamp il hung from
The ceiling over the reading couch Ii is
a suge affair, almost a canopy Of light,
hung with clanking iron chains-at least
chains large enough to clank: and it has
iron Orders and wooden supports and ir
positively an architectural structure The
tights in The hanging bulbs are shrolded in
large yellow silk daffodils and the gently
diffused light IL a. though il were radating
from the blossoms
There is Il fine strength and simplicity
and durability about these mission lau r.,
whether of wood or brass and they won't
tip over; in fact. some Of them you would
have difficulty in pushing over
They are in sharp and interesting CON
trast to the French garden lamps. which
are extraordinary perversions of nature.
They look as though they would make
good illustrations for some of the nature
Books in vogue inst now.
They are mainly for ballroom or hall
lights, and are called garden pieces be-
cause they initiate flowers and helpless
animals glass crane arbor. in one in
stance. stands some six feet high. and
really beautiful lunches of pale green
cranes are hollow to hold electric bulbs,
every grape a tiny ball of greensh fire
At the foot OF the arbor is a peacock in
white glass Illuminated, with tail of green
and blue glass feathers. ali standing on
and. with fine horror of the SPECTACLE of
ifseif as a whole.
Paris garden niece is fashionable in a
d.nong hail mr. dininc room and so the
New York prI has one Hers liz of tall
growing lilies in frosted white beads, with
blossoms droopinp and a crane leaning
heavily and desnondingk AT their roots.
The lilies az oh holding an electric light.
40 h.a,,tis,,i at nioht. lint that nlaintive
dasnair;nr head work crane glowing in
unsTnected nhces IL a cruel trayesty,
Flowers are most beautiful used in some
81 tba smaller Httings for electric lamns,
and so are ann,s,s and sea shells These
designs are usually to carry single light
The New York Girl has them in her library,