The Passing Of The Piano Lamp

fcomething to be a cause for thinkfulness is the reaction from the pip no lamp craze. Those who encumbered long, narrow rooms with a full half dozen of these awkward furnishings- and many wore guilty- had something to answer for in educing sotto voce profanity from much enduring men Not that the craze has subsided; it is only lessened. One piano lamp is useful, but to multiply that and stand them about as if they had walked out to take places in a waltz, or to see how many intruders into a half-darkened room they could trip up in a day is rather too much. Then their pagoda tops of monstrous girth deluged the room with boisteroue color and put everything else out of countenance. If anything, they are more perverse and ungainly than the corner easel. The banquet lamp modestly rears it3 light at the right place upon a table or piano, and may be clothed in a manner at once simple yet disüngue. With a standard of Japanese bronze or terracotta, and a delicate shade, the banquet lamp is beautiful. But a new horror threatens us- that is a tall candlestick generally made of enameled wood and' profusely decorated in colors, often of the Dresden style. It is made to stand either on the iloor or the table.- Hester M. Poole in Household News.