Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 3, Number 5, DeMotte, Jasper County, 15 June 1933 — The Household [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Household

By LYDIA LE BARON WALKER

There are lighting fixtures which increase illumination, making it possible to use little electric current without dimming the light. There are ways also of arranging lights so that this same desirable thriftiness is stressed. In each instance decoration is fostered. Let us go back in retrospect to the ancient method of increasing the pow-

er of candle light. A single candle was surrounded by four good sized clear glass bottles. The rays of light passing through the glass were so magnified that four lace-makers, sitting one in front of each bottle, could each get enough light to do the fine stitchery of lace-making. Crystal Fixtures. Today this same idea of light refraction is carried out decoratively in crystal fixtures, which are in the ascendency of fashion. A bulb of low wattage when encircled with delicate glass pendants will give sufficient illumination for a fairly large hall or dining room. Each prism of the crystals catches light rays and sends them forth so that not a single glow, but hundreds are present in the illumination of rainbow quality, soft

and delicately colorful. This type of chandelier, or ceiling light, takes advantage of light refraction, just as the old method of candle lighting took advantage of the magnifying powers of the glass bottles. All lighting fixtures in which crystals reflect light require less powerful bulbs, or lower gas flames than those without them. So fashion is now assisting the home decorator in thriftiness, if she remembers to use low watt bulbs or to turn gas down to small jets. Lights and Bottles. The magnifying power of light through rays penetrating glass can be used decoratively today by those who have clear ornamental glass bottles in their collections of glassware. Use

the bottle precisely as the old lacemakers did. Put a lighted candle behind the bottle and see the effect. Be sure to have the whole arrangement artistic for so only is decoration promoted. Lamps before mirrors will have their illumination increased. Such an arrangement can be decidedly ornamental, and equally economical. In kitchens, bathrooms, and back halls, old-time reflectors can be used to increase light without increasing cost of power. These polished tin reflectors do their work well. Sometimes sconces have glass ornamentally introduced between two lights or back of a single lights and this carries out the same idea of increasing illumination attractively and thriftily. ©, 1933, Bell Syndicate.--WNU Service.

The Clear Crystal Pendants Increase the Illuminating Power of This Attractive New Lighting Fixture.