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Show BcTTER THAN Ia.ulc CANDLES New Electric Device for Utility and Decoration Without Wires. Every woman has realized for some time past that the use of the candle as a table decoration wr.s attended by dan- ! Ker and other shortcomings and a substitute sub-stitute has been eaierly sought The solution of the protlem bas not been found In electricity, for the reason that lamps of this character lacked the feature feat-ure of portability and their ue also required the presence of wires piercing the cloths ami tubles. A New York man hns recently designed a piece of table decoratlou which takes the piace of the candles on the dlnnjr-room table in tbe home as well as the hotel !ind cafe 'I -t y'l I j DiSPHCES THE DINNER TABLE CANDELABRA. The device Is a pretly design embracing em-bracing a silver receptacle capable of holding a single-storage cell. The battery bat-tery stores sudlclent energy to keep tho lumps aglow for 14 hours, and the Illumination Illu-mination emanates from three tungsten Inirps supplied with switch for .-ontrol-llo them. Fitting neatly over the stand li a shallow bIh.s,s dish containing cut flowers and wuter. The former arc-ported arc-ported by cast -glass disk with numerous nu-merous holes Into which the flower 6terns, etc, project. The lamp thua erves as a Sower vase as well, nnd the effect of the light parsing through the glass and w.iter and playing around the ! rlow-ers and leaves is Ttry pretty in- 1 1 deed. . j |