A Pleasant Novelty.

Progress, Volume IV, Issue 6, 1 April 1909, Page 190

A Pleasant Novelty.

The "electric table-cloth" is the latest addition to the "smart" dinner table. It looks harmless enough — a simple table cover of grey felt, covered with an ordinary damask table cloth. The "regulation" silver candlesticks are placed on the table — an unusual brilliance streaming from under their dainty shades, and the uninitiated may wonder how candles can produce such a dazzling light. But there is more in it than meets the eye, for running down the sides of each candlestick is an almost invisible wire with a tiny pronged end. This prong fastens into the tablecloth, and as it touches the cloth the electric connection is complete, and the electric candles are lighted. Wherever the candlesticks are placed, as soon as the prong touches the electric cloth a brilliant light streams forth. This magical cloth can only be a luxury at present, but judging from the progress of the times, it may be within the means of hostesses, who dp not possess princely incomes, before very long.