HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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March, 1913 
Plan to Have Us 
Care For Your Trees Early 
W HEN the first warm Spring days 
come, everybody wants tree work 
done at once. 
Very naturally, some have to wait. 
Right now, before the buds have started 
or the leaves come out, is an ideal time to 
have us inspect your trees. Everything 
can now be more plainly seen and more 
plainly pointed out to you. 
Our inspections are a pointing out of the 
attention your trees need. This pointing 
out in no way obligates you to have any 
work done. It simply informs you of what 
should be done for the preservation of the 
health and beauty of your trees. 
Avoid the Spring rush this year. 
Have us make an inspection at once and, 
if you like, arrange for the immediate car¬ 
rying on of the work. 
Our booklet — -“Trees: The Care They 
Should Have” — tells about the kind of 
work we do and who we are who do it. 
Send for it. 
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ing of Galatea” and suspended from the 
jaws of a gargoyle by antique chains 
hangs an old Egyptian urn. Within, 
a lamp, placed in a home-made reflector 
of asbestos, and covered with scarlet gela¬ 
tine film casts a rosy glow upwards, which 
in turn is re-diffused downwards by the 
ceiling, conveying with just sufficient em¬ 
phasis the flesh tints betokening the 
awakened life of the beautiful Galatea. 
The lower portion of the body receives 
just a touch of white light, enough to mark 
the gradation twixt marble and flesh. Be¬ 
low, the figure of the sculptor Pygmalion, 
kneeling reverently at the base of his 
masterpiece, is barely revealed beneath 
impressive shadows. The interpretation 
of the artist is enhanced and the theme of 
this legend of ancient Greece, embellished 
by light. From any viewpoint in the room 
the effect is equally perfect, there being 
no glaring reflection from the picture- 
glass, so characteristic of our art gallery 
lighting. 
Above the piano is a small cabinet, 
serving to support a transparency invis¬ 
ible by day but at night revealing two lit¬ 
tle owls upon a tree branch sharply silhout- 
ted against the full moon. The player at 
the piano by the touch of a switch may 
diminish or increase the quantity of light 
on his music without destroying the pic¬ 
torial effect by a burst of light,—the music 
page alone being brightened. In other 
parts of the room light has been directed 
upon a picture or even shines through 
the canvas of a work in oils. Where an 
object is to be emphasized or its effect 
heightened,—light is used to bring out its 
beauty. On a bookcase a simple candle¬ 
stick with its shade of pink silk delicately 
illumines the face of an old French clock, 
and brings out the rich brown tints of the 
old wood, while at its base the lines of 
a bronze are suggestively relieved by sil¬ 
houette. Another simple effect is pro¬ 
duced by shining a soft light through a 
panel-skylight of stained glass set in the 
ceiling of a bay-window embrasure. The 
light shining down upon a fern is like the 
late glow of sunset entering the room. 
The hall, too, can be relieved of its 
canon-like narrowness and height, so com¬ 
mon to some houses. Here the usual, tire- 
somely conventional hat-rack and um¬ 
brella-stand are absent. From above a 
latticed ceiling streams a light like that of 
the moon, making it seem like a loggia 
open to the sky. The light brings out in 
strong relief the outlines of an appropriate 
urn, while at the entrance arch a globe 
of soft golden hue is contrasted with 
what appears to be the blue skv overhead. 
These effects are but simple arrange¬ 
ments that second the ordinary equipment 
with very slight expense and small trouble. 
Though one would not wish to combine 
them all as is done here, they suggest pos¬ 
sibilities for heightening the atmosphere 
of home. 
New inventions and new methods have 
made such possibilities in lighting methods 
almost unlimited and have given great 
opportunities to the home decorator. 
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