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Show HANDY LIGHTS SOME long-suffering husband has called the boudoir reading lamp a "home-breaker " Since his wife-bad wife-bad that lamp, he avers, she di-P di-P Plays a tendency to be utterly tired tout about nine o'clock in the evening l---and thf-n coin fort ably ensconced I among pillows rend- the latest novel until the wee. Miia' hours. Now rood-r rood-r 'Og In be 1 .- i jii i ed 'o 1" a cr bad habit; but It is utterly luxurious f when there Is a splendid electric read. Ir Ing lamp Ju:-'. beiide the bed or at-It at-It 'ached io the headboard and after I U the splendid Uk lit d....s rather ron-I ron-I tradict ancleut assertions about the t bad habit; such assertions bavins I chiefly io do with the strain on the I eye.-. The tire,' business woman, and I other tired women find It a very de-rllghtful de-rllghtful way to rest and get In a sufficient amount of dally reading to I re-movo confining clothing, slip Into f nightgown and negligee and cuddle I among pillows under the fine reading i light. As for the wife whose husband I jlkes to do his evening reading in the living room in his pel chair with smok- tag stand norh' ; or who naves for a little music .,r ,i ,,f bridge before K ,d ,lmc. she must harken to the Warning of that forlorn husband who i has called the enticing bed-readmg- 'amp a "home-breaker-' and do lier I luxurious reading plus resting in Die afternoon hours One of the handy places for a house-' house-' hold light that Is ornamental as ,ve'l as useful Is the hall Few halls are artistically lighted, in the days when pas prevailed things were better, for there was at least a dim flicker to give la homelike gleam behind the glass of a vestibule door. An electric light steadily burning always has an extravagant ex-travagant suggestion and in too many houses the hal! Is dark most of the evening It Ls so easy to switch on a light when the front doorbell has to j be answ ered. And so too many houscr-, from tho outside, lack that friendly I glow at the portal w hich ls one of the most beautiful things about a home, i An electric bulb of about fifteen candle I pow er costs very little to maintain even j If kept burning all through an evening and the slight cost ls well worth while j In the value of homcllkeness to the house. Better for the hall than a cold overhead light ls a small shaded electric lamp set on a side-table, or a ! pair of tall candlesticks tipped with I electric bulbs, set before a console i mirror. |