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Show - . . 111 i . - frrr -f Good Lighting Pays Eye Health Dividends By Jean Prentice I . . f Eye protection Ujiji-. x , "" need never be - i i ' - i , ' ' sacrificed to the l jL, decorative scheme. " JC?V , The lamp ' shown here-one , 4 M ' , , J of the Better Xli'U&J&t? v Sight type- ifcy 1. "Wr provide, plenty rfcfe j$ -, ofwcil-difTused, llO' V ...,..J Elarcless light, iK'nVj. ? yet blends kttiXi-te perfectly with H4T fJiZ' pertecuywim f Vr fp-pi fartf, the room 4f il furnishings. V &AlfPfc , FRINGED shades, bare lamp bulbs, and pools of li&ht arc as out of date as plumed hats and projecting pro-jecting petticoats. Modernity demands de-mands good taste in lighting, and good taste is always based on sound principles. In hoiic lighting today, ! these principles involve portable ' lamps and lighting fixtures designed ! not only lor decorative harmony, 'but for lighting results and seeing effectiveness as well. ' It has been estimated that today j we are using our eyes for severe visual tasks JO per cent more than was common a generation ago. Yet in comparatively few homes does the j lighting meet prescnt-lajr requirements. require-ments. Lighting Neglect Harmful It is sad but true that in aiany j homes where much thought and' ' money has been given to furnishings, furnish-ings, there is often the least considef-, considef-, ation given to lighting. Light bulbl . of wrong type have been put into fixtures incorrectly designed in the first place, then placed where they do little good, if not actual harm. When the eyes are punished Vf ! poor lighting, they pass aloof their affliction to the ucrrooi and phy sical systems The action of the heart, for example, is definitely slower slow-er under sms'ikr amounts of light.1 The focusing muscles o! the eye become be-come three times 9 t,..j under cn! footcandlc of light a und.'r one. hundred fo:tcatdle. (A footcar.dlei is the amou of lyh a candle casts on a surface onr. f.?ot away). Young eyes mistreated by insufficient or un-' propif light b";;?riC a handicap to good scholarship. Poor lighting1 o;akes for rcsUcisneM, inattention1 and fatigu. Actual scientific re-' scaith has demonstrated ibis fact. fcUbr S'a-orJ Be Checked Wouldn't it e & good ic;a to' check ibe buibs in tr-e rra;iing Jumps' jou use touslajtly? It a sicgle locket lamp, use a lOC-waU '.vlo. In' a double socket lamp, use two 60-watt 60-watt bulbs. It a triple socktt lafnp, three 40-watt bulbs aro recommended. recom-mended. If you will refuse to read very fin 0 print (or long periods cf time,' if y cm will have your eyes examined regularly, and if you will :naiit certain cer-tain that there la abondaiit fclar:less light whenever you do cose eyo work, you eae in some treasure rom-ociatt rom-ociatt fer tte bnrdctt piiposed, epo cor eyes by modern a, ilizatioa. |