. American homes and gardens. American days was either the candle,whale oil, or what was known as astraloil. Burners for use with these oils arenow no longer obtainable and althoughthe use of kerosene in old lamps is pos-sible, if modern burners be used, it isseldom really satisfactory. The oil forwhich the lamps were made was heavyand slow burning and a receptacle whichwould hold a supply sufficient for manyhours holds barely enough kerosene forone evenings use. The fitting of oldcandlesticks and lamps for electricity is,of course, quite simple and their use iseasy to arrange if ones home be
. American homes and gardens. American days was either the candle,whale oil, or what was known as astraloil. Burners for use with these oils arenow no longer obtainable and althoughthe use of kerosene in old lamps is pos-sible, if modern burners be used, it isseldom really satisfactory. The oil forwhich the lamps were made was heavyand slow burning and a receptacle whichwould hold a supply sufficient for manyhours holds barely enough kerosene forone evenings use. The fitting of oldcandlesticks and lamps for electricity is,of course, quite simple and their use iseasy to arrange if ones home be pro-vided with electric current. Great in-genuity has been employed in inventingall kinds of devices for using electricityfor lighting purposes, and many of theseclever arrangements are helpful to onewho is using these old-time Colonialtreasures to furnish light for a modernAmerican home. Lamps and girandoles,which are made in sets of two or three,are not intended to be frequently movedfrom the mantels where they are usually. detail which careful designing were also planned for theuse of the verticle dimension of thecandle, and it would be well in fittingthese old lamps and candelabra for elec-tric lighting to make use of some meth-od by which a lamp chimney may beretained for effect in the case of a lampor some imitation of a candle in thecase of a candlestick or of this be considered the resultfrom an artistic point of view is apt tofall short of what it might be. As one might suppose, old lightingfixtures from Europe are skillfullyadapted to modern use and their gracecontributes very largely to the beautyof any interior in which they are of the Renaissance plannedmuch the same lamps, candlesticks,torches or candelabra for use in churchor palace, although we associate theirwork with ecclesiastical rather than withdomestic usage. The torches or lanternswhich are still used in the ceremoniesof religion were once carried be
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