Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1917 — GLARING STREET LIGHTS BAD [ARTICLE]

GLARING STREET LIGHTS BAD

Best Results Obtained From Globes Which Are Dense Enough to Soften the Rays. “Illuminating engineers are now turning all their energies toward a system for the proper distribution of street lighting," writes Walter R. Howell,, in Good Health. “They have unanimously agreed that the best light is that from a globe that is dense enough not to reveal the form of the actual light within, but to give the effect of light streaming forth from the globe.” The reason for this is that street lamps are necessarily against a dark background, and the amount of glare upon the eyes depends to a great degree upon the background against which the light is seen. An electric light, unshaded, against a dark velvet wall covering, for instance, will be found much more trying to the eyes than would the same light with a ■white wall paper behind it.