Evening star., 1924-02-01
HE first step in lighting your
home is to have a good light
for the living room table.

Tor the living room table.
Through many generations.
families have gathered around liv-
ing room table where candles or an
oil lamp. more or less level with ths
human eye, threw light over content
ed shoulders. Eyes were not strained
or nerves unduly excited by a rest
less search for a place to sit where
one could see what one wanted to see
and yet not feel like a poor moth
caught in the distress cf binding IL
Elimination. ...
We should think out lighting ar
rangements that give a mellow peace
to our winter evenings. and perhaps
even save us expensive journeys to
the oculist. Table lights give a
room q peaceful quality. With a
hearth flre they are ideal, and If
house or apartment has only steam
or hot-water heating, they are the
next best thing to the cheering glow
of burning logs. Do away with the
light-fiooded ceiling # possible.
Bedrooms for both men ana women
should have a shaded light near the
bed on small table. In a woman's
room there should be a light at
either end of mirrored dressing ta-
bic, and a pleasantly shaded lamp
on her sewing table or desk. In ad-
dition to q well placed light over the
chiffonier, a mans room should have
an adjustable reading lamp placed
near comfortable reading chair, or
he may prefer portable light which
can be hung on wall, screen, coor,
chair back, bed, or any other place
needing light.
Handsome and Serviceable.
Lamp shades for real use must be
able to disperse the light, and as
this is seemingly their Office, 1T is
surprising that many shades really
shut out the light. Porcelain shades
in plain colorS are seryiceable, and
silks in delicate colors are more re-
fined than garish decorative novelties.
Before beginning to make shade,
wind all the wires of the frame
very tightly. Seam binding Is the
best material for u beginner to use,
as it does not fray. although strips
of the lining silk may be used if
care is taken to turn in the edges.
it is an easy matter to measure the
frame covering whether OF SILK or or
other material, and make 1t as full
as desired. Make putting at the
top and bottom. The lower putting
will require a fullness of three times
around, and the strip should be cut
four inches deep to allow half an
inch heading at the top and bottom.
After the putting is gathered, it shoHld
be quartered, pinned to the frame,
then securely sewed.
The pulling at the top is made
and one-half inches wide.
If the shade is made of silk, instead
of finishing with putting, it may be
finished with old-fashioped fringed
ruftles of the silk. Make the shade
SO that it will slide back and forth
on the frame, affording an opening
to give more light when wanted.
1t does not matter whether lamp
shade is made of silk, chintZ, or other
material, If the color is wisely chosen,
& ~
not have lamp and shade to carry
out any chosen color scheme, for their
cost is slight if made at home.
Shades in tones of rose or yellow give
restful. If blue is liked, it should
he lined with yellow or rose, SO that
the light will still be restful.
To make a charming; inexpensive
lamp shade at home take d yard of
chintz. calico or gingham. Almost
every family has a box full of left
over pieces of such materials. One
woman made a charming lamp shade
from a piece of soft brown calico
covered with small pink flowers and
green leaves, the material being
deftly shirred around the wire frame.
Another was made from pink heck ed
gingham. bound at the top and bot
tom with pale green ribbon. This
shade has the effect of large rose
on the center table of q living room.
A quaint lowered silk with pale
lamp shade, having a soft pink silk
as a lining, a narrow, pale blue rib
hon picoted in deeper blue finishing
all the edges. F'lowered organdy or
Toile could be used instead of silk
If preferred.
The chintz used for one attractive
shade is hand-blocked on a soft blue.
on which sprigs of pink flowers are
mingled with green leaves and a
sprinkling of yellow, violet and deep
er blue blossoms, while the entire
ground is scattered with a single
flower in all of the colorings. We're
this lined with white or self color
il would give a cold effect. but
deep pink silk lining was used, which
cast a warm, mellow light and re-
Iieved it from thought of chillness.
Tiny lamp shades for electric bulbs
and candlesticks are made of heavy
lace placed over silk-covered wire
frame. Larger lamp shades are also
made in the same way from the same
mat teriaIS