Candles have always been used more or less but about a hundred years ago when little oil lamps with a glass chimney were invented, candles with their dripping and smoking were discarded for what seemed a better lighting device. Later on, kerosene lamps were perfected, then the gas jet and electric bulbs entirely supplanted the tapering stick.
To-day with efficient lighting, is it not interesting that we have rediscovered candles and their use? Now the beautiful housekeeper supplies herself with candles and candlesticks. For their decorative beauty she stands a pair over the mantle, another on the side board and still another on the consul table while sometimes she has a little row of bedroom candlesticks at the head of the stairway.
The housewife of to-day permits romance and a spirit of good cheer to enter, when she turns off the electric glare and lights her candles, She has found there is no substitute for the soft shielding: glow they give. There is nothing more flattering to her dinner guests than to light the table with a beautiful glass candelabra as a center piece.
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