drawing-room. You will observe that in this picture there are many
different lights. The two old French fixtures of wrought gilt, which
flank the mantel mirror, hold wax candles. The two easy chairs have
little tables beside them holding three-pronged silver candlesticks.
There is also a small table holding an electric reading-lamp, made of a
Chinese jar, with a shade of shirred silk. The chandelier is a charming
old French affair of gracefully strung crystal globules. For a formal
occasion the chandelier is lighted, but when we are few, we love the
fire glow and candlelight. If we require a stronger light for reading
there is the lamp.

The photograph here given may suggest a superfluous number of lights,
but the room itself does not. The wall fixtures are of gilt, you see,
the candlesticks of silver, the chandelier of crystal and the lamp of
Chinese porcelain and soft colored silk; so one is not conscious of the
many lights. If all the lights were screened in the same way the effect
would be different. I use this picture for this very reason--to show how
many lights may be assembled and used in one place. In considering the
placing of these lights, the firelight was not forgotten, nor the effect
of the room by day when the sunlight floods in and these many fixtures
become objects of decorative interest.

A lamp, or a wall fixture, or a chandelier, or a candlestick, must be
beautiful in itself--beautiful by sunlight,--if it is really successful.
The soft glow of night light may make commonplace things beautiful, but
the final test of a fixture is its effect in relation to the other
furnishings of the room in sunlight.

[Illustration: LIGHTING FIXTURES INSPIRED BY ADAM MIRRORS]