HOUSE AND GARDEN 
February, 1913 
FRENCH & SONS 
PLAYER PIANOS 
Art Products of high quality and exceeding good value 
o 
( NE touch changes it from a hand-played piano 
to a player piano. By pulling forward a little 
drawer under the keyboard the devices for 
personal musical expression are brought into oper¬ 
ation, the keys are automatically locked, lower panel 
opens and the pedals swing out into position. A 
great improvement over instruments in which all 
these operations are performed separately, often 
necessitating stooping to adjust the pedals. 
As a player, the French & Sons is incomparably superior to any other. As a hand-played 
instrument, it betrays not the faintest trace of mechanism — it is superb. Other desirable 
features are the Automatic Music Tracking Device — Automatic Sustaining Pedal Device — 
the Compound Motor, which reduces friction 50 per cent. — Pneumatic Self-Cleaning Device 
on trackerbar — and many other interesting points demonstrated in our beautiful Illustrated 
Booklet—■ sent free on request. 
French & Sons’ Player Pianos are welcomed with the cordiality of old friendship by music 
lovers in the most refined and cultured homes in America. Before deciding upon any piano 
or player, send for our catalogs — they are free for the asking. Write today to 
JESSE FRENCH & SONS PIANO CO., New Castle, Ind. 
“The House of French, established in the Piano Business since 1875 ” 
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I,n Writing to a'di/erUicrs, phase mention House and Garden. 
The Vital Functions of Light in the 
Home 
(Continued from page 96) 
direction of the side walls, with much less 
light thrown upward, and downward, the 
enclosing ball of opal would cut off by ab¬ 
sorption some of the side wall light, but 
would increase by diffusion the light in the 
upper and lower portions of the room. 
In the diagram shown the heavy hori¬ 
zontal line passes through the center of a 
light source, which distributes its light 
without any enclosing globe as shown by 
the outline. In other words, it distributes 
the greatest light at an angle of forty-five 
degrees below the horizontal, with scarce¬ 
ly any light directly beneath the lamp. 
Outline 11 shows how the distribution of 
light was changed by placing a cylinder of 
ground glass over the source — there being 
a slight loss by absorption of the glass, 
but practically no change in distribution. 
Outline III tells a different story, how¬ 
ever, for above the horizontal a great 
amount of light is thrown, simply by plac¬ 
ing a cylinder of opal glass over the 
source. It will be noted that the increase 
above the horizontal is accompanied by a 
slight decrease below, but the object of the 
test was to prove that distribution of light 
can actually be changed by enclosing opal 
globes, and that, moreover, without dis- 
tortive spot light effects. The thing to re¬ 
member is that these observations apply 
only to enclosing globes, and that the light 
will be distributed about enclosing opal 
globes in a form similar to their shape. 
Upon page 95 is an example of an 
interior marred by the use of ground glass 
globes. Cover the upper portion of the 
picture by placing the first finger trans¬ 
versely on tlie page, hiding the lights, and 
note how pleasing the effect is. The pres¬ 
ence of glaring light sources in the visual 
field is not only a distracting factor, but a 
perpetual menace to eyes and nerves. 
With the wonderful economy of modern 
illuminants there is no longer need to sac¬ 
rifice artistic effect, appearance and eye 
comfort, all for an extreme and fanatical 
re-distribution of light. Place your illumi¬ 
nants in attractive globes of the densest 
opal, and rest assured that there will be 
ample light emitted for all useful pur¬ 
poses. The pleasure to be derived from 
artificial light sources which can be re¬ 
garded fixedly without annoyance, which 
are a part of their environment and de¬ 
light the eye, is wonderful. 
Very often light fixtures are so con¬ 
structed that opal glassware can only ac¬ 
complish the elimination of glare and 
harsh white light. The above is such an 
example, and one which is very common, 
particularly where the appropriation for 
fixtures is limited. The difficulty in this 
case is with the fixture arms, which are 
incorrectly placed at an angle. The po¬ 
sition of the illuminants is such that if 
their tips are exposed by globes having an 
opening, as illustrated, the effect is very 
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