Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1916 — Candles in Favor. [ARTICLE]

Candles in Favor.

No matter how convenient the electric lamp, in one of its many attractive forms, may be, there are many of us who find the candle of our grandmother’s day too fascinating to discard. What is it that we love about the candle? Is it the fascination of antiquity? Do we love to dwell on the thought that candles have lighted the .revelries of Versailles, the religious ceremonials of medieval churches, the early White House balls, the New England homestead and the southern plantation in all their comfortable homeliness? Or is it that candles cast a more bewitching play of light and shadow, a most becoming color, over one’s face, that we cling to them for dinner lights and like to have them at our bedside? Let who will decide the question. In the meantime, let us continue to indulge our liking for candles and candlesticks.