Woman Protesting Against Tesla's New Light

The announcement of the perfecting by Nikola Tesla of his vacuum tube system of electric lighting has been received with so many expressions of satisfaction, and there has been so much said of the benefit to be derived from this great advance in science, that it makes more emphatic and interesting the contrasting objection of a young Long Island woman who was protesting vigorously to some of her friends the other day against any general introduction of the new light for private use. She's a handsome young woman, and she knows it. She knows also the desirability and the difficulties of appearing always at the best advantage.

"It's hard enough," she said, "to have to face the glare of so many electric lights of the kind now in use. What can we do when they get this new white light in use? It will be worse than daylight. In our own homes we can use lamps and keep soft shades on them, so that the little wrinkles and the mean places in one's skin are shaded and toned down. But nothing will ever get away from this new light, and you might as well receive a caller out in the yard at midday as in a room lighted in this way. I don't care how practical they are, they shall never come into my house."