The woman's book, dealing practically with the modern conditions of home-life, self-support, education, opportunties, and every-day problems (1894)
New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 149
in color anddesign. Behind the screen rises a foli-age plant, a palm or rubber plant fromits brass or colored faience tub. Atone side is a tall lamp of porcelain, in festooned garlands around the frieze,thus surpassing every other form ofdecoration. Another mode is throughopalescent disks set in… … rooms are light-ed from brasssconces in theside panels ofthe walls, afterthe fashion ofthe candles for-merly used inthe old eigh-teenth centuryhouses. Dif-fused lightingis not onlymore agreeablebut more be-coming. Theseare considera-tions that willalways obtain.It is for thisreason thatlamps are…
Women · Home Economics · Interior decoration
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