Candle Lantern

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A candle lantern is a lantern that is powered by candle light. These lamps are old fashioned, so old fashioned that they belong to four or five generations before our current state in lighting. We are currently in the high discharge and LED lamp generation, before this came about it was the incandescent bulb and before that the gas lamp. The oil lamp came before this and the candle lantern comes before all of that.

This does not mean that they were not in use. They were widely used till nearly a century ago and were displaced only after the widespread arrival of electricity. In fact even now you will find them as curios and as emergency lanterns although they are more used for show than anything else now.

Candle light has always had a fascination for man. This is really surprising because he has tried so hard to develop newer lighting systems that are not only brighter but are more efficient and not so damaging to a person’s health. Even with all this candles are still being made and sold and even now if you say “romantic” there will be a candle somewhere in the picture. If you watch a movie where the hero wants to impress the heroin with a romantic dinner, he will have all sorts of colored lights and fireworks displays put up for her, but the place of honor belongs to the candle that is placed on the table top.

This is so not only in the fictional life of movies but also in real life. Whatever technology you use it is the humble candle that is the best setting if you want a really intimate atmosphere. Midnight services are usually candle lit services and the passing away of a widely respected person is mourned using candles.

If the use of candles is so widespread then so should be a candle lantern, although this is not true. Not many people use a candle lantern, preferring to hold it in their hand with the other cupped around the flame to protect it from the wind. Imagine you standing outside on a cold wintry morning for a New Year’s service with the wind blowing. Everyone will be hunched over with their backs to the wind not so much because they are feeling cold but because they don’t want their candles to go out. Then imagine you standing erect in the middle of this group because you have a candle lantern into which you have kept yours with no worry about wind or even rain.

Also imagine if you want to give a candle lit dinner to a loved person. You really don’t have much of a choice about the location that you choose because it has to be indoors. Even if there is no wind, a sudden gust of wind will put out the candle if you are outside. On the other hand having a candle lantern means you can pretty much have a dinner in gale force winds if you feel like it.

These lanterns are also very useful as emergency lanterns. In these days of electricity you may think that candles are not needed but they can come in handy should the electricity fail. Admittedly, battery operated torches or emergency lanterns are probably a better idea but candles can be much more enjoyable and can add a little fun to an undesired event. It can also give a family the opportunity to sit around the candle and just chit chat which is a nice change from watching TV will do so much to bring you all together. Of course you may not need a lantern for this which means that you will have to go groping in the dark for a candle that you last saw somewhere a few months back. A candle lantern on the other hand can be kept anywhere near at hand and will be just something for show until use for it comes up.

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