HOUSE AND GARDEN 
Ianuarv. 
1912 
Household 
REERIGERAmG and 
Ice Making PiAm 
Residence of Mr. T. A. Sperry, Cranford, N. J. 
Equipped with Brunsivick Refrigerating Plant. 
Refrigeration with ice is as much out of 
^)lace in a really modern villa or town house as 
is heating by means of stoves. 
There’s a far better way. 
Air cooled by the Brunswick system is dry— 
foods are preserved without deterioration either 
in texture or taste. No germs freed from melt¬ 
ing ice find their way to the food. 
.4 few representa¬ 
tive BrnnswicI; 
Users: 
Mrs. E. H. Ilar- 
riman. 
R. T. Wilson. 
1 ’. A. Rockefeller. 
.T. 1 ’. Morgan, Jr. 
Waiitelaw Reid. 
G. W. Perkins. 
Geo. T. Gould. 
J. B. Duke. 
Hon. Franklin 
Murphy. 
For use in beverages, etc., you 
can make ice tliat you know is ab¬ 
solutely pure. 
Tbe Brunswick is easy to operate. 
Your butler needs give it only a 
few moments’ attention each day. 
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INFORMATION 
by mail—or ask our representative 
to call. Each installation is spe¬ 
cially designed to meet the require¬ 
ments of the user and guaranteed 
to produce the results for which it 
is designed. 
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Practically all of the domes are made of 
art glass in varying degrees of simplicity 
or elaboration. Art glass is also used ex¬ 
tensively for the smaller shades and globes. 
On Colonial fixtures, cut glass or a cheaper 
blown glass with etched design is used, 
with or without the pendant prisms. There 
are myriads of stjdes of shades to fit all 
tastes and all furnishings; shades in pastel 
colorings in bell, flower and globe effect, 
upright and inverted, some effectively 
trimmed with metal. Especially attractive 
where a soft color is desired are the pearl¬ 
like shaded globes which have a beautiful 
iridescence. 
The shower fixture has now almost dis¬ 
placed the center dome in living-room, par¬ 
lor and dining-room lighting. The shower 
or dome hung on chains is the most prac¬ 
tical, as it is then possible to shorten the 
fixtures at any time that the room is de¬ 
sired free of impediments. Chain fixtures 
should be carefully selected with a view to 
their weight in comparison with the size 
and trim of the room. Tn the form of the 
chain there is a difference in the cost, based 
on the square being always more expensive 
than the round. The shallow dome is still 
in favor for the dining-room, with chain 
support, although many of the best archi¬ 
tects are now doing away with all of the 
light bunched in the center of the room, 
and to make a softer and more artistic 
effect, diffuse it from side fixtures' en¬ 
tirely. The ceiling light is used where no 
direct reading light is required ; often sup- 
]>lemented by side brackets. 
A trick of the trade which sometimes 
helps one in selecting fixtures is to know 
the difference between cast and stamped 
metal, as the stamped ceiling plates or can¬ 
opies, while just as durable as the cast, are 
more reasonable in price. Oftentimes one 
can find a shower with a stamped ceiling 
]Tlate, which is just as good style and which 
looks just as rich to the rtnpracticed eye as 
the heavier and more expensive cast plate. 
The same rule applies to wall brackets ; the 
wall plate, stamped, is good enough for all 
practical purposes. 
Colonial designs must always be in good 
taste for Colonial and semi-Colonial 
houses : in fact, the only fixtures that can 
he used. The solid simplicity of the fix¬ 
tures commends them to everyone who has 
a taste for the completeness of the fittings 
of old Colonial days. The squat little lamp 
fixtures are attractive with or without the 
crystal petticoats, and while the side wall 
brackets are most desirable, the center 
chandelier is also procurable, with plain 
lamps onl}’, or with prism skirts. 
A very pleasing effect in a low-ceiling 
Colonial room is secured at a minimum 
cost by suspending single lights quite close 
to the ceiling, but further apart than a fix¬ 
ture would allow, each provided with the 
pendant prisms. All four lights are con¬ 
trolled by one switch, two flashing at the 
first turn, two at the second; then two out 
at the third and all out at the fourth. 
The use of the dark metals is confined 
to the living-room, library, den and dining¬ 
room, although the latter should for ob- 
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