Show r O OThe n ne The e Household Edited It by Anne o 0 THIS DIM UI Making a n virtue of ot necessity we are told Is something for which the thc Amer mer Amerlean American lean ican t oman woman has a real teal l knack nack When hen wool was wag scarce and conservation of all sorts of or dress goods boods was desirable we made the tho best of or the situation h by assuming that narrow arrow sl skirts and narrow narrow narrow nar nar- row bodices and sleeveless coats and less frocks were quite the best fashion To be sure Paris Parts gave o us the hint but bul there thero wore were no women anywhere any any- an anywhere where who got ol the swing of or the tho new scant fashions sooner than titan did the Americans Now ow wo we are reminded almost dally daily that next winter will viii be a short fuel worse season worse perhaps than last win wIn- ter We Ye cant can't exactly x elly make malee It fashIonable fashionable fashion fashIon- able to have and Influenza but we wo have good reason to believe c that thal very much up bundled clothes will be the fashion when snow now flies again An And an as for lights troll lights well tho time best thing we can do O Is to make tho best hest of or a bad situation and start in right now making the dim rell religious lous light attractive e If It w wn we mako malo our homes look as If we had dimmed the tho lights light for fOl tho time sal sale sake e of time the the artistic effect thus produced wo we shall h have wo done eT very much better than If It wo we display ono one single meager menser light with tho the J manner anner of or feeling very vory much distressed be because because be- be cause that thal I is all the time Illumination we uc weare are arc allowed Brightly Illuminated houses are not going to be In vogue next winter That Thatis IB la a safe sate assumption because we wo have ha found that it Is never no the least bit fashionable over hero to be unpatriotic and to conserve lights is Ie going to be a afine afine t. t fine tine act of at patriotism Dont Don't make nuke Eke tho mistake of oC thinking you Oll have best handled the tho lI light ht conservation conservation con con- allon problem h by removing ln all the shades from your lights and apparently apparent apparent- ly h stretching them to their full ca ca- ca When h n wool was short we wo didn't proceed to stretch It we mode made up our TI that t we liked scant cont clothes 80 00 o olet's lets let's make up our ml minds mind ml a that we wo like hies dim lights ll By all means meang get the best nt fixtures and burners xo so that what light you ou hI have will go us as far II as fis possible pos pOS- sible But Hut also aloo use shades to So u 1 that the Idea Mea that you are stretching your lights lIe will not mot be lie given sl soft sort Ii shades lades to lo make male an nu attractive dim dint cf- cf C- C There Is something suggestive c of orphan as asylums lums and Siberian prisons pris pris- ons about a Q single le light l that glares e out In a room Jom casting its rays ras as IS far ns as possible It Is hideously hideously- dim dimand dimand and gloomy gloom Yet the time same sama light softened b by an nn attractive shade c and perhaps thereby deprived of sumo some of Its lighting power appears really charming It suggests long leisurely 1 conversations on In the tho firelight glow lo rc- rc I intimacy domesticity |