Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1901 — CANDLES NOT OBSOLETE. [ARTICLE]

CANDLES NOT OBSOLETE.

Thera Are Still Many IJm for the Flickering Light. "Candles going out!” said a candle manufacturer. "Oh, no. There are more candles sold in the United States now than ten years ago, and I don’t doubt that the same thing would be

found to be true as to the world at large.- The world over, candles are us’d by miners in gold, silver and copper mines. Candles are burned in chuiches, and they constitute a part of the undertaker’s supplies. Candles are burned on ships. Butchers use them In their ice boxes. Brewers find use for them, as plumbers do, also. They are used in conch lamps, and for table ornamentation. Candles for Christmas trees are sold yearly to the number of many millions. Candles are still used, too, for the ordinary purposes of domestic lighting. *, “I various foreign countries, despite the world-wide introduction of petroleum and electricity, you will find candles in wider use for ordinary lighting purposes than here. You would find in some countries candles used in hotels, and you would find places where caudles are used in street lamps. “Candles are made nowadays in almost endless variety. The fancy candles are made in various sizes and In different shapes; as cylindrical and tapering, stt;aigh£-sided and moulded into various forms, and sometinies with ornaments attached to them, and they are made in many colors and shades of colors, and many of these candles are artistic and beautiful. Candles are made nowadays most largely of stearic acid and adamantine, these two materials being both pro-

ducts with a basis of tallow, treated by refinement, pressure and other processes; they are now made largely of paraffine, and they are made also of beeswax and spermaceti and of tallow. And there are competition candles made of a combination of materials.”