July, 19 1 3 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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ing with colored silk cord. For a room that you do not for a screw top in which a glass bowl is screwed or a cup- 

 wish to light with a bright light and in which, at the same shaped top fashioned into which a bowl is set. These lamps 

 time, you are desirous of producing an effect, let me make can be painted any color to harmonize with the room where 

 the following suggestions that I think will appeal to those they are to be used and decorated in a natural or con- 

 wishing a pleasantly softened light. Have several Japanese ventional design. Black is particularly striking with the 

 prints framed in a black frame and on the backs nail a box design in dull gold after the Chinese manner. A shade to 

 frame about three inches deep, forming a sort of shadow harmonize with the base is used and the resutl is most satis- 

 box. These can be hung on the wall like a picture. The fying. Especially suggestive of the Summer days is the 

 little shelf at the bottom can be used as a stand for two wicker lamp shade with its filling of various colored silks. 

 little oil lamps or tapers. The effect of the light showing The wicker frame may be either natural or stained or 



through the translucent paper is most 

 pleasing and very striking. This means 

 of lighting is especially delightful in a dark 

 corner. Have several small holes bored 

 in the bottom and top for ventilation and 

 draught. Japanese stencils may be shown 

 in this way to good advantage, using rice 

 paper as a background. Side brackets 

 are always the most satisfactory way of 

 lighting a room, especially when the flame 



painted a color to suit the situation. Brown 

 or green are as a rule most suitable and per- 

 haps more lasting. The filling may be varied. 

 For instance, in a room where chintz is used, 

 let the shade be filled with chintz or even 

 with paper to carry out the color scheme 

 of the walls. Rice paper with a stencil 

 design in black is very attractive, also a 

 grass cloth with coarse weave shows to 

 advantage. Shades made of the yellow 



Copyright by W. D. Paddock, 1907 



is turned down to resemble the flame of a An attractive Summer lamp may stencil paper are charming, especially when 



candle, or when little electric light bulbs are be 1J ma , d ? at , bome by P rocurm g a cut in some pleasing design, allowing the 



j 1 • l it . v 11 -it g°ld nsn globe and htting it as , r , , j , , i 



used to obtain the same effect. 1 ellow silk described in the text with candles color °* y our background to show through. 

 for shades is a good color and in Summer as s h wn in this diagram The shade is generally cut in one piece and 



a change to green or cream might be wise. fastened together with little brass-headed 



In rooms where the greenish-yellow light is used a paper clips, doing away with the glue that sooner or later 

 shade of yellow will soften the glare and give the becomes dry with the heat and falls apart. These also make 

 effect of gas or lamp and at the same time not noticeably charming shades for the table candles and shed a becoming 

 decrease the light. Brilliant lights in the summer are not light. They can be used over any color that one finds in the 

 conducive to a feeling of coolness. The old-fashioned oil usual silver set. A stencil may be outlined so that the 

 lamp, after all, gives the most satisfactory light, but of design will be decorative by daylight as well. What has 

 course with it goes, hand in hand, the constant care. For- been said regarding the lighting of the Summer home is 

 tunately electricity has solved the problem and now the more or less in the hands of the amateur who, with a little 

 lamps are used for the same purpose but with different in- skill and patience can produce charming effects. The pro- 

 ternal workings and I do think the result is most satis- fessional, of course, has the brightest side to work on, but 

 factory and the effect quite as pleasing, minus the trouble the amateur with taste and clever fingers can produce quite 

 of oil and wick cleaning. For Summer home, lamp shades as charming an effect and, when originality steps in as a 

 made of old-fashioned white shelf paper, with its lace-like companion to skill and taste, let the professional take care, 

 edge are most effective and especially when flowers are cut Let me give the readers of this article a bit of advice that 

 from some gay chintz paper and pasted on. They remind I have found to be most true. Don't flood your rooms 



one of the old-fashioned bou- - r .,., t ^,..- ^^ < H - H --^— MM witn ''ght as you then des- 



quets with their formal white IMBHHIBIM&.^U^^af^^.^'.' 'v^'" : jv ' troy tne shadows and s °ft 

 paper ruffles. These are ^^B^W^E8HE^ ]^^£ S^ R^^ i" ' *' "'*'... I , tones tnat help to make an 

 particularly charming for ^^^BBB^^F^^^^^^^ * "" ■Si H unattractive room livable 

 the table candles and are very ^^^K^BS^^^S^^f^.f^Ci^-' 1 ' l» and a " attractive room 



easily made over the forms 'djK^S^S^^^C^'^ ' iPSBBS ' ! charming. Too much light 



that are found in the lamp ^^S^HB^^9^^^ ^J "W" - IBml dest roys all color value. 



departments of our shops. ^SKBmS&Eti&W^ B^S^ 3 ° ne snould not allow the 



The shelf papers come in tB^^BEsw*^^ color values to wander away 



yellow, blue, green and pink m^/KSg T^J§Hf* MM ^ r ° m a room but ^ Y our 



as well as white. The last HS^*^ ^ ... ^ JA. ' ■' ,.* ■ I ™ 1 lighting is brilliant this will 



is, perhaps, the best as a Bj **& *^fi$»i '"~*M happen and the room at 



background for the flowers. flf ^^1 I^^^^I • °' 1Ce becomes uninteresting. 



Iron side lanterns are very ^£ )-M ¥ f : ^-m..'.;^ „ The objects placed about 



decorative with their little W im^ J ?Se \& wil1 Cast no shadows and 



doors of leaded glass or p J^fej «.-.*.■ m » . \ they themselves will become 



plain glass and the ironwork '&** f '4 ^'^HM^^C Har ;lm] strange looking. 



in Gothic or early English ^^ < -fo JteslililK The corners of the room 



design. Sometimes the de- ^@^» ' -*^!(5"B?Bl^ % " wI " assume the appearance 



sign is Saracenic and colored ^■^ft* &&•*% *^ ~ of a cool shady pool in the 



and the piercings backed . ' glare of a noon-da v sun, 



with colored glass so that rJ J^^^" losing its mysterious' depth 



the light from the electric |B£ ^ — "" ,- — ***-* and color. In other words, 



candle or bulb shows '•"*'*' ^ .... . a brilliantly lighted room 



through and the effect is rich | sets everything to dancing 



and highly agreeable. Very and causes unrest. This, 



effective are the wooden after all, is disorder and 



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lamps turned into some An artistic tab l e l ight fitted for electricity . The figures are bronze and dest »>ys ones enjoyment, 

 graceful shape by the carpen- the shades are skillfully fitted shells. In place of electricity, parafine Artificial light or daylight, 

 ter or craftsman, allowing balls (which will burn over two hours and can be refilled) may be used both can be over-encouraged. 



