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Show Kitchens Glow With 'Do-it-Yourself ' candles Ordinary kitchen tools egg beaters, paper milk cartons, a cast-off fork, a used coffee can, discarded crayons, a large jar ring and an old pan filled with '. water are the uncomplicated pieces of craft equipment women . are using to turn out beautiful --glowing candles "in kitchens all over the West. glow wax (ordinary wax doesn't work), round up empty tin cans and tools and start to work. You will find it easy to make candles that would sell in retail stores for $1.50 to $11.50. For a free glow candle letter telling more about this craft, send your name and six cents in stamps to Mrs. Helen King, Utah Co-operative Association, PO Box 2310, Salt Lake City. The letter will contain" information on where to obtain your wax, special wicks, glitter dust, decals and other accessories ac-cessories and their costs. It's a difficult or impossible thing to stop worrying completely. complete-ly. The easiest way out is to try to worry about one worry at a time. That way you don't get mixed up and start worrying about the i thing you're really not worried about. When you have too many worries on your mind at one time you get confused, and then you've really got something to worry about! ab-out! . VINCENT ARGONDEZZI, j Partners. These simple tools are j being used by homemakers to trans-. trans-. form literally carload shipments of a special kind of wax into decorative de-corative candle shapes that actually ac-tually glow from flame tip to base when the wick is touched by a match. Today, this do - it - yourself candle-craft is spreading over Utah Ut-ah where clubs and families are. turning the hobby into a profitable profit-able venture. Many a husband has come home to great activity in the family kitchen and hopefully hope-fully inquired if cookies or apple pie were in store. Instead, he found" a welter of newspapers, milk cartons, and tin cans holding hold-ing a rainbow of melted wax, with a gleeful wife in the middle gloating over the fun she was having making these new candles. Pressed into breaking up the ten-. ten-. pound cakes of wax, - husbands have ended up designing and making mak-ing candles on their own. Clubs are learning to design, and sell the candles to add money to their treasury or to raise funds for worthy projects. One Boy Scout troop was taught to make these candles and the 14 Scouts bought five cases (275 pounds) of the wax and ended up with a $400 net profit. Homemakers use practically any object around the house for molding purposes. Jello molds, glasses, dishes, bowls and even toy animals have been used for the purpose of forming shapes for the candles. Since candle designs are limited limit-ed no longer to the traditional tapers, ta-pers, they are being made in cones, cylinders, mushrooms, houses, hou-ses, rabbits, stars, shamrocks, pyramids, shoes, snowballs even satellites. At this Christmas season, candles are especially appropriate and nothing is more beautiful than a glowing holiday symbol. If you like to have fun in your kitchen and make beautiful objects ob-jects for. the home at the same time buy some of the special |