. American homes and gardens. Antiques as lighting fixtures are appropriate for a room of this sort colored fabric to reflect thelight. Larger candlestickswhich are usually placedupon the floor are often pro-vided with an imitation, inwood or porcelain, of a tallcandle, at the end of whichis placed an electric bulb ofground glass similar in shapeto the flame of a tall candlesticks,which are usually of wood ormetal, gilded or silvered, areplaced at either side of man-tels or doors or in otherplaces where their formalcharacter is in keeping withthe rest of the bracke
. American homes and gardens. Antiques as lighting fixtures are appropriate for a room of this sort colored fabric to reflect thelight. Larger candlestickswhich are usually placedupon the floor are often pro-vided with an imitation, inwood or porcelain, of a tallcandle, at the end of whichis placed an electric bulb ofground glass similar in shapeto the flame of a tall candlesticks,which are usually of wood ormetal, gilded or silvered, areplaced at either side of man-tels or doors or in otherplaces where their formalcharacter is in keeping withthe rest of the brackets or wall lightsof Italian design are alsoused for electric are sometimes ofmetal, but more frequentlyof wood or compositioncarved or modeled, andelaborately colored and gild-ed, and fitted with imitationcandles or small bead cov-ered bulbs. It is very diffi-cult to obtain more than oneor two of these bracket lights April, 1913 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 121. Antique brackets fitted for electric bulbsof the same pattern, and very frequently one old light willbe used as a copy from which as many as necessary may bemade. Antique altar lamps of silver or brass, or some-times of wood covered with gold or silver leaf, are veryuseful for lighting studios or other large rooms which aresufficiently lofty to afford a suitable setting. The electricbulbs which supply the light are covered by large globes ofcrystal beads, which are arranged or hung in the lamps invarious ways. The wires which carry the electric currentare twisted among the chains by which the lamps are sus-pended. In many old mediaeval baronial halls, particularly inGermany, the lighting is extremely picturesque and decora-tive, and is supplied by candelabra either fastened to thewall or suspended from the ceiling. These candelabra aremade of the horns of the deer or a certain kind of moun-tain goat, or of the antlers of the moose. The hangingcandelabra generally include a figure of c
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