Healthfulness Of The Electric Light

The healthfulness of the electric light was recently illustrated in a striking inanner. Some railway men were discussing in a car factory the rel&tive advantages of illumination by gas and electricity, and the advocates of each system remained unconvinced by the other. Finally the superintendent of the factory suggested that the matter could easily be put to a practical test, and turning on the gas in the smoking compartment of an adjacent car he invited the officials inside. It is said that their stay was of the briefest, for in a very few minutes even the strongest of them had to snccumb to the heat and oppression and to seek the outer air. A Hke test, made in a compartment lighted by incandescents, was attendd by a very different result, and the verdict which followed was unanimous for the cool, wholesome light. This will readüy be understood by those who, aceuatonxed to the electric light, have occasion to sit in gaslit rooms in which the sense of heaviness of ten becomes pressive.