Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-08-27
Effects Of candy on Children.

As the town cnlargcs and the confcc. |
tioncry shops increase, / see more and |
more the i'll effects of candies ON child |
rem.
"My child is so restless aud thirsty at
night" said Mrs B.. "What can he
the matter with her stomach?'
"Do you allow her TO eat candy?" /
questioned
40 dear yes" was the reply al
wouldn't deprive her of the happiness OF
anticipating and receiving the package of
candy which Grandpa brings every night,
for any thing She is SO fond of candy
that she often prefers II to her dinner. But
you wouldn't believe how much water she
drinks at night. l always place u large
pitcheriul by MY bed, and sometimes she
will drink 1t all before morfliug. And then
this thirst makes her so restless and wake
full, that we are all disturbed by her.
Can't you give her some medicine for her
thirst?" g
The subject of this appeal was slender,
waXen-f faced little girl, with thin, sharp
features; dusky yellow half.circlc under
her eyes hands so thin as to be transu
! cent, the blue veins standing prominently
out the tongue of an angry red color,
showing an infamed stomach; pulse irri-
table, weak and quick tenderness over
| the stomach; bowels tuuiid-tlle group of
| symptoms indicating u sub-acuto infam-
nation of stomach, excited by indigestiblc
| substances Candies In her case), and fol-
lowed necessarily by loss ofappetite, thirst,
and an impoverished condition of blood.
| have so frequently had to advise in
this class of cases latterly, that | have
learned that success is not to be attained
by direct attack upon the candy, but by
a more general argument-thus: "You
know that the stomach of child is very
delicate, very sensitive-quite as much so
as the eye; it will bear milk, and so will
the eye; but if you add to the milk, pep
per, the oye becomes red, and so does the
stomach. Cold water is grateful to the eye,
to relieve this inflammation, and II Is
equally so to the stomach. Now, candy is
but little less irritating than pepper 1t
creates the same redness, the same grade
of Inflammation, and there is the same de-
mand for water to quench the ineXtinguish-
able flame. In such stomach, healthy
digestion ceases; the appetite fails; the
blood becomes poor and watery, and the
tissues are all impoverished. II is not the
sugar that does the harm, for pure sugar
Is healthy; it forms part of the milk oi
the infant, and enoers largely into many
of our best vegetables. 1t is the sugar
/ LnlaNu WIN OlhOi uipNiNol 'i'Nh
poisonous, and the process of manufacture
that render candy so injurious. .....
"You mean to do well by your child, but
you are slowly and certainly effecting liei
ruin. At this critical period of her life
when, for proper development and growth
she needs large supply of nourishing and
easily digested food, you give her these de
testable compounds of burnt sugar ant
poisons, which not only slowly poison hcl
system but, worst of all, deprive her o
, appetite and even of the power of diges
: ton. If you persist in this course, IL il
not difficult to predict the result, tho
, chances that your child will reach woman
hood will be diminished ten-fold; If sht
I reach adult years, il will not prove adul
I life in her case, but rather dwarled ant
, imbecile maturity. Her certain inheritanc
4 will be dyspepsia, morbid appetite io
9 crude and indigestible articles, and chroni
I and incurable diseases which will rende
4 her irritable and peevish, and lead TO pre-
' mature old age and death in mid-life.
I "Tbe cure is certain, and the remedy
: at hand remove the particle of dust fror
q an inflamed eye, and the redness soon dis
appears; SO cease to apply to the suriac
r of this inflamed stomach the foreign sui
G stance which irritates it, and il will n
: cover; the thirst will subsde; her appt
d tite will be restored; her lips and check
= will become red, and she will regain Tia
G flesh which belongs 10 her.-AR EIBtRe1
a PhUstctdR in Hearth and Home.