Daily Yellowstone Journal

The Esthetics of Electricity.
(Demorest's Monthly.)

In ordinary lights the direction of the flame is always upward, but electrical illumination is not confined by any limits. This suggested to Mrs. Edison, the wife of the celebrated inventor, the use of fanciful devices as fixtures for electric lighting. Instead of a single light flaring upward, the electric light can be distributed in every direction. Some extremely beautiful results are thus obtained. In one exhibition is a flower-pot overgrown with a wilderness of foliage all done in polished brass. The lights spring from among the leaves like flowers from their stem. Another device is called the umbrella light, in which the lamps are arranged in a circle located beneath a shining reflector. A little motor causes the lamps to revolve, and the result is two apparent whirling circles of flame. Another charming effect is a hanging framework of brass, in which the lamps are so placed that the rays form a basket that may be filled with artificial plants and flowers in their natural colors. The light can be made to permeate ornaments in rooms and produce surprising effects. In the magnificent ball-room or drawing-room of the future there will be no flaring jets of flame; the lights will be so distributed so as not to offend the eye, but will be so combined as to heighten the effects of all the decorations of the interior of the room.