</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Grew up useing that stuff in the oil lamps as a child, hey when it was all you had, it was pretty good. )</font>
I guess we were too well off; had electric lights in the house from the time I was old enough to remember, but only in the house, so those kerosene lanterns sure saw a lot of use for nighttime fishing, milking the cow, and just going to the outhouse. And while they didn't put out as much light, I believe they were more reliable and less trouble than the later "white gas" and LPG lanterns.