THE BLUE LIGHT.

Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 15 May 1912, Page 2

THE BLUE LIGHT.

The chandelier over the diningtable of a .fashionable house was found by a guest to be of peculiar construction, the numerous branches furnishing a separate light over the head of each guests. The globes were amber, red, or blue. A gentleman who was once invited to a dinner-party there was struck by the originality of the lighting scheme and ventured to ask the hostess the reason for it.

"Why, you see," she replied, "when one gives a dinner or tea one must invite some people whom one hates! Now last Tuesday I gavo a supper, and I had to invite two women whom I despise. But I had to invite them or some of the young men I wanted wouldn't come. I had my revenge on my fair enemies, however. I placed each of these two women under one of those pale-blue lights at the table. The two women are usually considered beautiful, but under that light! they had the most ghastly look you ever saw. They were perfect scarecrows. They seemed to have aged twenty years the minute that they sat down. The men noticed it, but they did not guess what caused it. They were quite taken aback and awfully glum at first. But finally one of them turned, wifchi a sigh, and begun talking to a real homely little woman who "was sitting under a ruby-col-oured light. Why, she was perfectly charming under it! So, you see, when I want people to look hideous, I put them under-, the blue lights. It would transmute an angel into a scarecrow!" The gentleman looked up. He was uader a blue light!