" / 73 £? Delights ofGetting Well 
Enjoy getting well—make health-getting a delight ? 
Certainly, right here at home—where every natural con¬ 
dition exists and where skill and knowledge are just as great 
as in Europe. Surgeon General Rupert Blue, ot the U. S. 
Health Service, says “our gouty and rheumatic population 
need feel no alarm at the closing of the celebrated resorts 
at Karlsbad, Baden Baden, etc.,—there are springs in this 
country that possess amazing curative properties.” 
Where is this place? At Old Point Comfort—Hotel 
Chamberlin — where every Treatment given at Aix, Vichy, 
Karlsbad, Nauheim, or Harrogate is duplicated under superior, 
professional, directing skill. 
The delightful part ? You live in one of the great Hotels 
of America, with a cuisine famed the world over. \ou meet 
people whose tastes are your own—you ride, motor, walk, 
play golf or tennis, and bathe in our great Sea-pool. \ ou 
dance ; you are a part of the cultured social life and pleasant 
diversion of one of our largest Army Posts— Fortress 
Monroe. You have ever before you the inspiring sea-view 
of Hampton Roads. You live in an atmosphere of cheer; the 
Treatments only add to the delightful part of getting well. 
If you are really interested, let Mr. Adams send you the little 
book “Cured”—a plain tale of facts about what has been done 
at The Chamberlin for some of the thousands who came to 
take “The Cure.” And when you write for “Cured,” ask for 
some other books about the Hotel, Treatments, etc. You 
will find them worth reading. Address the Manager, 
George F. Adams, Box 204, Fortress Monroe, Va. 
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Bouse Furnishing and Decoration 
By ABBOTT McCLURE and H. D. EBERLEIN 
Authors of the Practical Book of Period Furnishing 
An intensely practical book on every phase of 
furnishing and equipping a distinctive home. 
The authors have kept in mind, above all other 
considerations, the desirability of showing what 
may be done by a combination of clever con¬ 
structive ideas with limited means. Ingenuity 
and taste, rather than costliness, form the 
keynote. Illustrated, $1.50 net; postage, 10 cents. 
McBRIDE, NAST 6 CO., Publishers 
31 Union Square North New York 
In writing to advertisers please mention House & Garden. 
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Old Lights Put to Modern Use 
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makes an excellent transition to the 
picture beyond. Against a dark back¬ 
ground, a seven-branched Roman candle¬ 
stick is invariably a striking silhouette. A 
window ledge also can carry such a can¬ 
dlestick effectively. The Roman lamp 
with its small font and long shaft and 
three or four wicks can be put to use as 
an informal table light in the dining-room. 
Any chemist can concoct for use a rose- 
scented oil, and the lamp gives sufficient 
light and proves both practical and un¬ 
usual. I wonder that more people do not 
put such lights to use. They are the 
omnipresent souvenir of the first trip 
abroad. For more gala occasions, use low 
silver Sheraton candlesticks. Battered 
though they be, at least there is nothing of 
the art nouveau about them. To use as 
lighter when cigarettes are passed after 
dinner, a little low Roman brass lamp 
plays well the part. This is not an ana¬ 
chronism, for had Caesar smoked, he, too, 
would have used it. 
Above the dining-room table can be 
suspended the piece de resistance —a large, 
old church lamp, such as one finds, for ex¬ 
ample, in Seville, with beautifully carved 
chains and a gorgeous red tassel. Be¬ 
tween each brace of the bowl is a tiny 
hole, through which can be threaded wires 
for small electric bulbs. The frosted va¬ 
riety of bulb is preferable. The fat, 
shining sides of the lamp reflect a bril¬ 
liant warmth. If one prefers, the bowl 
can be filled with electric bulbs, and the 
effect of overhead inverted lighting, so 
popular at present, is given. 
There are countless candlesticks, all in¬ 
teresting and more or less beautiful and 
useful. In the dolomites can be found a 
wrought-iron holder, crude, with a flat¬ 
iron base and finger piece. The prettily 
turned standard at the top is sharpened 
into a hook to drive in the wooden walls 
of the chalet whence it came. 
Candlesticks lend themselves readily to 
grouping. For example: with a pair of 
Japanese bronzes, bearing thick, richly red 
candles, put another piece of Oriental 
bronze—an incense burner by preference 
—and behind it hangs a bit of Japanese or 
Chinese embroidery—a square of wonder¬ 
ful blue-green from a mandarin’s coat. 
Here one immediately creates a unique ar¬ 
rangement. 
It often requires an ingenious, as well 
as patient, electrician to convert old lights 
into shape for modern use, but it can be 
done. More than ever are candles being 
used to-day, and more than ever do they 
fit in with the scheme of old lighting fix¬ 
tures, such as queer old brackets placed 
above a mantel, lending an air of distinc¬ 
tion and refinement. But one rule ob¬ 
tains throughout the house—do not mix 
gilt and copper or silver and brass. The 
room that calls for one forbids the other. 
By careful discrimination alone can we 
most successfully put our old lights to 
modern use. 
