The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-08-03
LIGHT VERSUS LIGHTING
Your Home May Have Light and Yet
Have insufficient Illumination.

with his eyes and been forced to con
suit an occulist knows that there l.
considerable difference between hav
ing light in ones home and having IL
Elimination. AS we humans use arti
fetal illumination ninety per cent Of
our waking home hours this Is more
important matter than we usually
credit it as being.
Gloom and glare are the arch enc
mics of correct illumination. The one
gives you insufficient, the other toe
direct light Each is a blatant fault
which care and forethought in the
planning and installation Of your
lighting equipment will overcome.
There is nothing more super-sensi-
tive than the retina of the huuan eye
and light should not be allowed to
shine directly into 1t. Headaches, eye
strain, nerves and general irritation
will follow.
A single unshaded high-wattaes
lamp may be all the light that is need
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Illuminated but II it is placed level with
the eyes and the horizontal rays shine
into 1t, you are on the highroad to-
wards paying specialists bill for
eyestrain' before many months are
over.
Where people own their own homes,
it has been pointed out, correction OF
defective illumination is almost sim
pie matter. Where one dives in
rented house, apartment or suite, it
is horse of another color, many have
commended.
BY no means! 1t is still possible to
change faulty illumination at small
expense even where the quarters in
which one lives are rented ones. Of
ten so small thing as the raising or
lowering of a lamp, the installation
of portable lamp, for instance, or
again, the mere changing OF shade
will suffice. In any event, the atten-
dant expense, no matter what it may
be, will be small in comparison 20
having ones eyesight threatened
When reading, for instance, the
light preferably should be from over
the shoulder, it should shine directly
upon the reading matter but not into
the eyes Of the reader. Similarly,
when dining, it is the table and not
the diners themselves that should be
illuminated.
Too much light-glare, in other
words-is like a brass band playing
fortissimo. A little of it goes long
way.
Most rooms in the home, nowadays,
depend more or less upon side wall
fixtures. Ceilings being lower than
formerly, less need for overhead cell
ing lights is felt. These fixtures
should always be shaded. Prevents
glare, again.
Undoubtedly because it is movable,
often unusually artistic and always
shaded, the portable lamp is gaining
in favor daily and there are few
homes served by electricity that could
get along without at least several of
these.
Lights in a home are often like the
inmates. There are lights that are
crude" others that are "timid,' still |
others that are "gaudy." Often they
are striking" and, in rare cases, |
beautiful. Rarer still are the in
stances where the light gives an il
Elimination. that is as near perfect as
human ingenuity can make it.
Daily, however, as more men and |
women are awakening to the import |
ance of correct illumination in their |
homes, the lighting equipment as
sumes more important place in |
household comfort and health. Illu-
engineers are giving valu-
able suggestions. More important
still, the home-maker has come 10
see the need for seeking advice upon
this subject. Better and more per-
feet illumination in hundreds ana
of homes is bound to result.