Tflß ELECTRIC LIGHT.

Manawatu Herald, 16 August 1881, Page 4

Tflß ELECTRIC LIGHT.

ITS EFFECT ON THE COMPLEXION. It is mi UttliftUtfd jflii,s9«mfi,iiflu >^ffl : e,yfl that the electric light is apt to tan the skin and freckle the face. An investigatory who has taken some trouble' to asctTtaiutlje ojyijions of such authorities atjh|fißon^Maxim. aim^others which hehas*hfjpk|d by the experience of those wJj#h»rTß constantly used the electric liijht, comes to the eonclusiou that when it is very bright it uumis takubly tans the skin. #$.&^Edison declares that an ate ofr2o,.tfou t \candlft'. power took the skin off his face in two hours, apfl " tanned an assistant's hide iv sift hlmr^as-brWn as a butternut." All electric lights, except those of a lo»v candescence, in Mr Edison's opinion, will tan the skin.^Mr Masim says that on one occasion ' his" "light tinned the,^fcjiivcn% T his face in fifteen minutes The Brush light or any blue white light will tan, and the light of the voltaic arc will fade delicate f»ibric3. Girls iv stoves where I the light is used are freckled and ruddy as if they had worked in the sun. . If the gas eompuuies cm onlist women on their side the. electric light will have a hinder battle to fight than its • advocates anticipate. THE LIGHT AT SEA. The use of (he electric light on ocean steamers is one of the most valuable iis«s to which the ..new. method of illumination can be put;' and the public will be glad to know that>tlro experiment, as tried on the City of Richmond, on her last voyage fiom Queenstown to."Ne\v; York, was a perfect snccfss. In wus not alone in replacing the dim oil lamps in the main ea'oon that the electric Jight proved va'uable and us^ful,. bu£ in ftirriisliing illumination for dark and comparatively inaccessible places, wheio it is dangerous' «Tc»Trry ah bj.eh lamp, and where very little can be seen with any of the ordinary styles of ope'u lamp. The lake steamers will have to follow iv the wake of the sceau steamers, and when all these and the railway tunneh-^-perhaps the cars as weU — are fully illuminated, the travelling public will begin to realise how |§! &rand a blessing the electric light is. — Catholic Review. ~ i