But Honest Abe didn't install a gas log a couple of years ago when he got tired of carrying in fire wood in the cold and rain. Those gas logs simply don't put out the lumens of light that you find in a wood fire. Of course there are candles. Lots of them. I live with a woman.
Women are incapable of entertaining without an open flame.
We should be grateful there are such things as candles. Otherwise women would be burning down houses with their propane torches. But flickering candle light is a lot more conducive to romance than reading. So I went to bed. Not long afterward I was awakened when the lights went on.