Candlelight!
Dear Aunt Daisy, I have had so many helpful suggestions from you. Here is something that may interest you. I had a dinner party on my hands recently and some of the guests could not get here until blackout time. I had no lamp, but had two candles-but no candlesticks, and could not buy any. I cut the candles into six pieces. Then I took six fair-sized potatoes, that sat ‘firmly, carved a socket for the candle with the apple-corer,
Painted the potatoes with the "enamel that supersedes enamel." I sat them on the dinner table with a tiny posy of | flowers stuck on each one with a pin, | and they looked really lovely, and gave | us ell the light we néeded. Is this a) new idea to you, or has someone already thought it out? I am missing your | friendly talks in the morning-because of the power-cut-more than I can say. Wishing you all the best in your grand |
work,
"Candlelight," St.
Albans.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 421, 18 July 1947, Page 26
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165Candlelight! New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 421, 18 July 1947, Page 26
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