A Christmas Candle

It's a beautiful Christmas day on Park Avenue, in Manhattan. Uniformed doormen adorned with epaulets like French generals greeted the family with huge smiles and pleasant, "How-do-you-do's?" Snow blanketed the city all day long making for a wonderful Christmas But the snow fell all day long, growing heavier and heavier.
When the electrical substation went out, no one noticed, but soon the next branch popped, then they falling like dominoes in a series of shut downs, leaving the city without power.
Up and down Park Avenue the windows were all dark. The candles came out but since everyone had stopped smoking, no one had a match.
With the entire building in the dark, little Melanie teaches the adults the meaning of Christmas this year.