LAMP-LIGHT.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 510, 18 May 1909, Page 3

LAMP-LIGHT.

; : >S-Ab;. eyery '- :'with : \ ..';■'artistiq' •;. feeling :knowß,. on'her",windows by;day and oil;her ;lamps;;by:.night;depend.tho. success;of'.any. ;schenje-:of decoration,;J'says an, Australian paper...Hence\the.-necessity..of spending.considerable time, and occasionally money, in shades.of different.;descriptions. '.'■: You enter ■a!room;:that:gl6w!:with dilFußed light.': ihe shadows : .are. .softened;and ;the 'strong -light. bo .is toi-reflect becomingly.: in' tho faces: of ;th'e company.-; Say' 'the: room ■isvprie "in.''whioh shades 'of brown »nd gold prov»il;^>ndi'the ; lights; ;»re :; . '■. screened by pendant , .':shad«B76f pink. '-.You get »: sunsetgloTv.cjJculated: to .make the -homeliest woman look ..comely.;;'Remove-. the v shades and; :h»ve;/the^"itronpi ■ cold-: light,: makinc 1 sharp:shadows relentless,'instantly the furniture lobks;tired and : the; decorations crude, Tvhile'about-the.human_ beings assembled : it would.:be.kind;;to;say,;nothing.:,For ,'electric lights;there, are no-, more' successful ( Bflades. than.'■ th«!■ small,. ;well shaped ones imade of'silk, and finished with a'deep fringe of;crystal.beads.- Shades/mado of parchment' paper can be-made.things'.of.beauty by-cut- *■??; out m of : ;the::;shade a good. conventional' design:. , : This cut'outpart ls'then lined witk :eoloured 'silk .or,, paper, and,, : especially -for email gas'shadesj'thc.rcsultis generally oxcellent.v;_Ari' artistic;.and. very serviceable lamp shade canbe madeby-.cutting a Chin- '. ese. lantern;, in L itwo;; lining the wooden 'top with asbestos and finishing the' bottom with: ball,or crystal fringe. ■.The. shade is' .fastened to :tho -lamp chimney with'the ordinary hangers, : as, one-lantern wjll mako .two '™ s »%'w•'certainly inexpensive. ■'. _.Those who have ;read "The Indifference ef Juliet —that: charming stoi? of a homewill remember-how Juliet: insisted that the ligutsnn: a;room must be set low if the room lSxto/havea cosy home-like appear'•a°f?V-; ,rif'-°' de a friend in despair, because, art,; s he cannot' make her beau- ■ tifully-rurnished room .seeni' attractive in' tho electric light/ 'Juliet atya glnnce f""n tfhiit is wrong, and, snbatitiitiiig an artistic lamp ■withpretty shade, placed on.a low tablo for the, high-hung electric lights, she gives the room all the charm.it hid hitherto lacked.