Evening star., 1905-11-04
THE SHADING OF LIG 1T
TO ASSURE A ROOM BEAUTIFUL
AFTER sUNDowN.
ld-Fashioned Glittering Pendants or
With Brilliant Insets of Colored
Glass in Globes.


Give most attention to the comfort and
coziness of your rooms during the evening
hours" was the advice of a matron to
young bride in maze of doubt as to what
was most essential in the furnishing of her
small, new home.
1T has always been my policy to make
the living rooms most attractive when all
the family are using them, and as my
husband and boys are downtown during the
day this means during the hours after sun
down. Have your house radiate cheer and
complete contrast to the grayness Of Office
walls of workaday hours. This Is enc Of
the secrets of keeping your husband fond
OF his home"
To the up-to-date homemaker this ques-
ton of making the house attractive after
the dinner hour is a most important one
and the shading of artificial light is the
secret of the room beautiful when Old Sol
is out of sight. OF the four methods by
which this is accomplished, the oil lamp
Is the coolest and for practical purposes
the most artistic. Especially IN winter
nights 1t sheds warm glow over q room
"a good book or the evening paper under
its steady light Is enjoyed in solid COM
fort.
They Furnish, Too.
In their decoration, the modern lamps
are as much part of the room they light
IL.
An outcome of the popular mission furni-
ture is the iron lamp of dull black finish.
Shaped on similar severe lines also, its oil
vessel Is perfectly square, while from it
rise curving iron standards. Rather small
iron chains are suspended from these and
mold the four corners of loaded glass
shade showing subdued greens, browns and
reds, and shaped like the square pointed
roof of japanese house.
Countless other designs in loaded glass
erect various mushroom shapes and mel
low the light from both oil burners and
electric bulbs. If only a suggestion of
light is desired in some cozy corner or hall,
a large tallow candle two inches high is
set inside the globe of the lamp and this
burns in perfect safety for an interminable
time.
Less severe, though not a whit less pic
| uresque. than the iron lamps are those of
FURNISHED metal or painted porcelain. Note
worthy among these is a dull brass lamp,
the light from which passes through
huge round globe, painted to show a smIl-
ing fisherman with twany skin against a
fading blue gray sky. Set in a jardiniere
of porcelain with spreading lavender iris
design, another lamp is shaded by circu-
lar canopy of porcelain to match, and Is
finished around the edge by a deep fringe
of milk white beads.
Always Improving.
Globes for softening the light from gas
| jets improve each year in shapeliness and
| beauty. One of the finest of recent effects
| is tulip shade of prism glass that sur
| rounds a patent burner and throws the
| rays of light like a splendidly cut dia-
| mond. The globe is not in the least ornate.
| nor is 1t expensive. Colored glass shades
| also lessen brilliant gas jet in an artistic
| manner, and are much in vogue this win
| ter. especially where there is drop light
| or lamp for reading purposes.
A fad of the season in lighting effects
| II, g -f1l a n afSC N
for candlesticks lamps and dazzling elec-
troliers Beautifully brilliant as they are,
when the light strikes them 1t seems to
gain a hundred fold in brightness and
| fills a room with myriad sparkling rays
Large candelabra for lighting both Ia
BILE and mantelpiece stand three rect In
height and have gracefully curving
branches. From each branch danSle long
crystal pendants and the grooves of the
sockets are of a size to hold either tall
wax candle or a broad low tallow candie
such as has been described above for
lamps Individual candlesticks consist
of two or three winding columns OF glass.
For use with these, old-fashioned glass
candle chimneys are returning 10 1aVor,
and they not only serve to steady the
flame but they enhance its soft light.
Crystal lamps are as tall as the can
delabra. Their large round glopes are
of opaque glass and some are studded at
intervals with insets of colored glass an
inch in diameter in red or blue or green
cut to initiate hugs gems
Electric Fancies.
Electroliers to disseminate the light
from very small as well as large electric
bulbs are bewildering in their brilliant
loveliness. Many of the finer ones show
exquisite marble figures of Cupids, ETC.,
in miniature, with a canopy above them
of a thousand and one tiny crystal drops.
Among some other wonderfully beautiful
electroliers are those with bronze fig
ures holding branches Of grapes or mag
nificent blossoms of Opaque glass, and
causing a room at night to look like a
magic garden. A very tiny electrolier
displays maiden in peasant garb hav-
ing branch of grape vine across her
shoulders, with the smallest size electric
bulbs throwing their lights through a
bunch Of white grapes at either end To
give a golden light In a hall there comes
an electroler that fastens on the ceiling
and has several drops of yellow glass
like fuchsias falling from it.