Don’t leave your lighting to your architects. Illuminating engineers are good but you can even be more illuminating by knowing your own needs and habits. There is no excuse with electricity in not having your lights where you want them. Buy the right lights to save your health and eyes. Talk to your contractor before the house is “let” for building. Here is the time to talk outlets! IN FINALE 1. Clean globes mean more light. Don’t think you don’t have to clean electric lights. You waste money on electricity with every grain of dust on your globes. 2. Tired eyes often mean too few lights or light placed in wrong places. 3. Remember don’t always blame cook or work for indigestion, it may be your eyes from bad lighting. 4. A bare lamp if it must be used should be above the eye line, always use a shade. 5. Too much is as bad as too little; both strain the eye. 6. In low ceilinged rooms use two or three side small lamps rather than one large one. 7. Remember ask for the size lamp you want, don’t just say “I want a lamp.” 8. If you don’t understand lamps, go to a library and read or consult a good electrician, or go through some one’s home. 9. Standard plugs throughout the whole house so that all connections can be made at any outlet. 10. It is wiser to have more rather than too few outlets. 11. Switches--remember you can have lights so arranged to snap on and off in the closets by a switch on the outside. (1) You can have switches (3 and 4 way switches) that enable you to light the light upstairs from downstairs and turn it off when you get upstairs and turn it on again either up or downstairs. (2) Side wall switches--near doors as you enter; (3) Another switch to turn on all lights in house at once in case of danger. SOME SUGGESTED NOVELTIES There is a “cute” little thing now to be had to prevent you bumping your shins on a table when leaving the room--a light that when you put it out stays lit one minute after you pull the chain! CORD DIVIDER There is also a device which connects the long electric cord so that you can easily lengthen or shorten it without calling in an electrician. TINTING Lacquers for globes can be bought whereby you can reduce the glare of the ordinary lamp at will or even color them to suit. PRINCIPLES First principle is that diffusion of light is necessary in order to see the object clearly and pleasantly. (2) Brightness is to be avoided. No general rule can be given for number of foot candles--different rooms--whether dark or light in decoration--need different treatment. Experiment and experience are the only arbiters here.