House and Garden 
HOUSE FERNERIES 
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be on the table at meal time; the rest of 
the time it should he in the window of a 
moderately cool room. Take great care 
in the watering and do not allow it to dry 
out, as drought is fatal to growing ferns, 
for when once wilted they seldom re¬ 
cover. The great trouble with the little 
dinner fernery is, that it is allowed to 
remain too long in a very hot, dry air 
away from the light. A cool room is 
a better place for them. They should be 
taken to the bath-room and sprayed daily 
to keep the dust cleared off the foliage. 
Where a fernery is properly filled it 
ought to last in good condition all winter, 
but with many people the fernery does 
not keep fresh for one week. If all 
owners of ferneries will just try keeping 
them in a cool room in a light window, 
watch the watering carefully, they will 
be much more successful than when 
growing them in too great heat. 
To be sure ferns naturally like heat, 
but it is in a humid atmosphere, not a 
hot, dry air. It is impossible to have 
damp air in a house, so the next best 
thing is to have them in a cool place 
where they will not burn out as they do 
in most dining-rooms. 
LIGHTING THE HOME 
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more desirable. But where the ceiling is 
not over fifteen feet high, no part of the 
room will be well and economically light¬ 
ed that is more than twelve feet from a 
source. The light most agreeable to the 
eye is that which has been broken up or 
diffused by refraction or reflection. The 
walls and ceiling of a room if in light 
colors make splendid diffusing surfaces, 
and not only supply one-third of the 
illumination, but by far the most agree¬ 
able third. For large halls, reception- 
rooms and ball-rooms, I recommend 
inverted hanging mosaic shades, suffi¬ 
ciently transparent to avoid shadows 
below, and over-reflector and reflecting 
surfaces so arranged that the light is 
evenly distributed over the ceiling, 
reaching there only after refraction 
through a white porcelain flat shade, 
or after at least one reflection. Even 
distribution is a most important factor 
in decorative general illumination. If 
the ceiling and upper two-thirds of the 
walls of room are evenly bright, and 
there is no direct glare to annoy the 
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