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a metal pan over a heater

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200 YEARS AGO: Two boys, one about 16 and the other 8 years of age, at Tutbury in Staffordshire, having incautiously a few nights ago taken a chafing-dish into their room to warm it, the deleterious sulphur deprived the youngest of his life in the course of the night, and the elder had nearly perished.

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Cooks will find that it is a good fuel for the small burner under a fondue pot or chafing-dish.

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Star collars on caroling candles keep wax off hands; gold centerpiece ornaments reflect chafing-dish candles' gentle flames.

For materials, you'll need paper for pattern, medium-weight bristol board (preferably gold or silver), chafing-dish candies or caroling candles of your choice, and glitter.

With the craft knife, divide circle into sixteenths, as shown in drawing above right; push V-shaped prongs down, snipping points off for chafing-dish candle collars.