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Show Chamber fy's W T least half the charm of a LM harming room !? In Its soft I lighting A glare of electric J I light, flooding every corner and lea Ins no shadows an where, can spoil the most beautifully furnished room and give it the garish common-placeness common-placeness of a hotel bed room. There are scores o'f devices for lighting the bed room adequately and at the same liino arMstlcally. and these lighting effects ef-fects should bo as carefully considered as the color of the cretonnes that drape the windows, or the shape of the chairs or style of furniture. One shaded bedside light will not give enough illumination to dre-- by, in a bed room of generous proportions, though the one shaded light will give a very' pretty glow if stronif illumination illumina-tion is not netded and will light up the room sufficiently for undress. ng or for a gossip between friends. In addition addi-tion to the shaded bed-side light there fhould be a higher light, over the dSresser or two lights, one on each side of the dresser. A third shaded light on the desk Is delightful, but In the ordinary apanmen' house or even In a rented house, there Is seldom enough electric wiring to provide for three lights in a bed room. Two lights may always be obtained, however. how-ever. At any electrician's shop you can get an attachment to screw Into the socket of your one electric fixture , and separate wires may be run to two ; lights. A protty way to light the bed room j Is to have sconces with tall candles at ' either sldo of the dresser mirror, i These, in addition to the bed side lamp I with its silk shade, will give a soft i and pleasant illumination and the I candles need be burned only during the hour of dressing. If your bed room is in an apartment and has Its window on a court, better give up I the charming bed side lamp with its shaded clow and have a glaring overhead over-head electric bulb than to trust to dressing for the street In a dim r- ligious light. It Is always easy to tell the women who have dressed In semi-dark semi-dark apartment bed rooms, when one meets them out-of-doors on a brilliantly brilliant-ly sunny day. They never have the splc-span. perfectly groomed look of women who have dressed In a good light. Bats never show specks of dust; ults never show ugly little stains and spots In a dim lamp-glow. Details of the costume look perfectly all right In the semi-dark room, and pitifully 1 all wrong out In the glaring sunshine. I It is most unwise to put the least make-up on the face In a room lighted i artificially, when one la going out-of-doors Into the broad daylight. Hung i a small mirror against the window frame of a well-lighted room. Pull he window shade to the top and then put on your face powder. You j will not look so charming to yourself in that garish llgh as you would In the darker bed room; but you will look a lot better to your friends out In the sunshine Pink or mauve lampshades are always al-ways prettiest in a bed room. If the ! furnishings of tho room require blue ' lampshades, or lavender ones, these 'should b of very thin silk, lined with ' rosy-toned silk. The mulberry pink Is the most flat'erlng of all the pinks fur l my lady's chamber and cretonnes and , 1 .,. , A smnrt Little Paper Sb tde With Japanese Decoration in Black ind Root 9sad.es bed room furnishings in mulberry ' rose are always In demand. Black Is often introduced very smartly in bed room furnishings and one of the dainty lampshades pictured the Japanese Jap-anese parchment shade has a glossy black background against which trail graceful sprays of mulberry pink flowers. The silk shade pictured is a conven tlonal type that never seems to go out of favor. Thin, rose-colored silk crepe Is shirred over a metal frame and there is also a thin silk lining, so that the strong glare of the electric bulb may be diffused softly. This allk shade has a new touch in the silk em. broidery decoration. Tho edges of the shade and tho oval frame around the embroidered flower are worked with a heavy and close buttonhole stitch in silk floss slightly lighter In tone than the silk crepe of the shade The flower Is embroidered with two tones of pink silk floss. For a yellow bed room the linen shade was designed, and It Is all in hades oC, yellow from pale canary to golden brown In the back-wound. The, color of the linen Is the lightest shade In the inner c.rcle behind the lovebirds love-birds perched on the bough. The colors are put on with a stencil and narrow black lines outline the pattern smartly. Gold braid finishes the edges of the shade which has a lining of j thin white silk Inside. Linen lamp shades are quite the dernier crl for smart bed rooms and since linen has been put on tho market again, any clever maid may mako herself a smart little linen shade for her bed side lamp. Tall mahogany standards aro shown . Vott Shade Of Linen With Stenciled Design in Flat Tints For A VeTJ Smart Ami Modern Room. with all the pictured shades and these mahogany standards seem to be the favorites just now, though there aro many handsomo bed side lamps with btandards of Imitation Ivory made with tinted plaster; of cut glass, of carved marble and of wicker. Such lamps are seen In very luxurious bed rooms i hero i xi'on-c lnot a consideration, but Lh inituAt btandards are seen I i Siri' 'In such bed rooms also and If one H( must have an Inexpensive - andard of p ft, ; mahogany or even Initiation ma- i tJ I hogany one ma le oi. tr- r,,nt. nt in If ill the assurance that one's lamp is en- HI I i mode. LrfSi Very pretty shades are made of If' IT ecru linen with wool buttonholing at o'fr' Ige and conventional wool en:- lu- broideries in two-tone effect. Such fl I rn i hod by table scarf- II and dresser mats and give a fresh. 3 cool look to the summer bed room. liU To make one of these lamp shades ljn cut a pattern first from newspaper. S ill The pattern will not be a perfect circle S IH with a hole In the middle, but a seg- K'U ment of a circle Joined at the edge. ujllll This will give the steeply sloping clin shade. When you havo a good pai- iH ra'C an outline of it on your fl i but do not cut out the shade un- Illli I the embroidery Is finished and I M I the edges buttonholed. Wet and press J Jjj the linen well and then cut out the fflH'1 j shade and seam It neatly together at ili r ; bW w I I . After Ml silk Shades Give The PTCt tlesl fJghi nd Ntm Ones Hau' yarn I nibrolderlcs To Bring Them |
