CANDLE LIGHT THE VOGUE.

Northern Advocate, 27 June 1935, Page 4

CANDLE LIGHT THE VOGUE.

In cities such as Brisbane (states the Australian Worker), where the candle now has no real use in domesticity, its revival as illumination for the dinnertable and suppers of the very fashionable is becoming as marked in Australia as it has been for more than a dozen years past in America. For emergency uses, as when the electric light fails for a space, candles and candlesticks may have a brief airing from the back shelf of a kitchen cupboard, but usually electric torches are on hand to fill the gap in the illuminative system. Candle light is much kinder to the complexion than electric glare, hence its revival in social circles where complexions are not what they used to be, but the parlourmaids and waitresses whq, serve at meals where it is the only illuminant rage both inwardly and outwardly, because of what they describe as “a silly fad.”

The candles now are held by pretty little glass candlesticks in which the central holder usually is in the shape of a bright-coloured flower. The maids report that, like themselves, the males of the party curse the fashion; but an exception to that rule has been found in two old household heads who have taken to burning six candles when reading or writing at night, because they have decided that six-candle power is much kinder to the eyes than electric high voltage. The most popular candle with the “smart hostess” is small and coloured, and is reported to be hand-made, which fact, if it is a fact, may earn a few blessings as a setoff to the many curses.