Reblog if you've ever used your brain to snuff out a candle before drinking poisoned river water.  From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1904.

From Der Deutsche Kriegsbilderbogen, 1914.

From Jugend, 1909.

From Jugend, 1917.

From Mocca, 1931.   This will also be of interest: The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.

From Die Bühne, 1935. 

From Wiener Revue, 1945.  This will also be of interest: The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.

From Die Bühne, 1936.

"Kissing the candlestick."  From Round Games for All Parties, 1854.

From The Sketch, 1906.

From Popular Mechanics, 1928.

The world often looks this way to us.  That's why we wear prismatic glasses (as in the video linked here).

From Kladderadatsch, 1933.

Here's Milwaukee as a giant candle taller than Chicago.  From Popular Mechanics, 1933.

From Die Bühne, 1926.