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Show WAX MUST FIRST BE HEATED Impossible to Get Light From Wax Candle Without the Presence of Necessary Gases. A wax candle really is a gas torch, l'ou will find that when you apply a lighted match to the wick of n candle it will not light readily. You have to hold the match to the wick inilll Ihe wick burns sullicienlly to heat the wax .hot enough to turn it Into gases which, on mixing with the oxygeu in the air. produce the fire in the form of light. The candle will continue to be lighted and to burn as long as the wax continues hot enough lo give off the gases or until the canie is entirely en-tirely consumed. Any interruption to this process of transforming the wax Into gas will result In the extinguishing extinguish-ing of Ihe light. The reason ihe cnndle goes out when you blow on the (lame is that the gases which feed Ihe (lame at the end of the wick are blown away, the process of turning Ihe hot wax Into gas Is interrupted and with the gas supply shut nil' Ihe llame Is extinguished. ex-tinguished. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Where Reasonableness Ended. I "Keasonable puppies," advertises a j dog advertiser. Did you ever see a 1 puppy thai was reasonable when uc j got hold of your Sunday hat? Why does It take two to make a quarrel If a man and his wife me one? |