LIGHTS O' LONDON

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 177, 22 April 1919, Page 8

LIGHTS O' LONDON

I ' —-— ■ Months of -darkness have given Londoners a fresh zest for a beauty they were in danger of overlooking—the city decked .like a queen'in her jewels of light. From south of the river the Embankment lamps appear a softly glowing necklace of opalescent' pearls, while sprinkled along the stream groups of lielits on the anchored vessels are strung like precious stones into fantastic, fascinating pendants. The Strand is a garden of Aladdin's lamps. Balloons of luminance, before shops and theatres drench the air with mellow, golden radiance. Tiny bulbs outrival diamonds with their twinklings and scintillations.. High aloft float brilliant moons of electric blue. And as you fancy that the drifting rcnr-lights of shadowy are scarlet fire-flies or blue will-o'-the-wisps, twin meteors shoot a dazzling path across your view—the ■headlights of a luxurious car. If a linkboy of old who, after lighting my lady to her home, had put out' his flaring and smoking torch under one of those lnigo extinguishers still' he seen at. the doors of Eelgravia—if he and m.v (ady could see these modern lights o' London, the wonder-light in their ev°.s might match the brightness of tho fairy scene.— "Daily Mail.'