Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1870-02-04
CANDY.HERESY.
By HENRY WARD BEECHER.

"CANDIEs.-1t is most hopeful sign that
buying confectionery for children has very
greatly diminished within the past few
years. Buy fruits and nuts if you like, but
by no means be persuaded into purchasing
any Of the gaudy or gi,tering affairs that
attract Ignorant eyes in candy shops. Such
stuff may do to look at, but if once taken
home, is quite apt to tempt the taste, and if
eaten produces dire effects. Parents who
create in their children love for candies,
and foster that taste, do not only foolish
but wicked thing."-Erchange paper.
If such peruicious sentiments as are
rashly expressed in the above paragraph
should gam currency, who can measure the
good that will be prevented and the evil
which will be produced?
Not buy candy, not eat candy, not give it
to childrenl Well, what next? We ex.
pect to live to hear good wheat denounced,
Indian corn prescribed, and ckwheat
cakes ard moasses put under the ban.
call any boayding-school Miss, and ev.
cry boy of spirit that knows how to smack
his lips, aud every jolly nurse and sensible
parent who has laid aside the h;ckory-stick
and taken up sticks of candy for discipline,
to cry out and protest against this bar
barous and most cruel crusade against can
dy!
OF course, if the write. will lower his
crest, and say that he does not mean good
candy i'll general, but only the "gaudy,
glittering affairs that attract iguorant eyes
in candy shops" meaning thereby, poor,
adulterated candy, with poisonous colorng
matter, We accept his apologies and lei HIM
pass. But even at that, we shall solemnly
admonish him not to use language again.
capable OF such dangerous miscc Instruction,
when treating upon a theme SO momentous
to the nursery, the school, aud indeed to
the welfare of all children from six to sixty
years of age.
Good sugar is oEe Of the most nutritious
elements Of food. Pure candy is the pur
est form Of sugar. Eaten in moderation i
is inj urous neither TO the teeth, the diges
ton, nor to any other interest of the human
system. Here are the very people who are
supersiitiously afraid of candy and with
large-eyed wonder and domestic horror pro-
test against it, and take great pride and
praise to themselves for not allowing it in
their family: "No: You never saw ne give
a child a lit of candy, and, thank Heaven.
if my reason is preserved, you never viii =
and yet these very persons put sugar into
tea. and coffee, and choco ate; into ginger
bread, cookies and cake; into preserved
ounce, plum, apple and peach; they sift
sugar into Strawberries, rasl berries aud
b|achber:ies; they put it into custards, pud.
dings, sauces, various and Infinite; ard
al, 4
old folks eat sugar, and middle-aged people
eat sugar, morning, noon and night-eat
sugar, sip sugar, drink sugar. with relish
and benefit and then, upon piim occasions.
they wipe their mouths, and begin to de-
scant on the evils Of candy!-as if candy
was anything but sugar!
1t is true that there is a great deal of
sweetened paste called candy, and much So
called French candy which is viely com
pounded and colored, and some kinds OF
chocolate candies, and tatfy. and brandy
drops. and limitations Of fruit, etc In 9TH
er words good candy is subject to vile
counterfeits, and so is bread, aud cake. and
meat.
Let every virtnous man denouncc bad
candy, and honor good, pure sugar candy.
Ii should not be eaten all the time, Like
fruit or cake, and every other product of
the field or the oven. it should be eaten
wisely, discreetly, moderately, at suitable
times.
Children can be kept in good health on
pure candy; and anybody who SAYS nay,
may thank his stars that ice are not Pope.
for as sure as we could catch him, We would
make him recant, or smart for it.
Poor, prosecuted Candy! sweet saint of
the nursery, St. Saccharssa thine honor
shall not fail while there is an ingenious soul
left alive to love children-a kind cd nurse,
or reverend grandfather! But ah, saint
or whichever thou art-destrov
all poor candy, that the reign Of good candy
may no more be restricted by the ignorance
and superstition of foolish parents who
think they are prudent!
With oil our losses through official thiey-
ing, bribery and corruption, it is conceded
tha, our Republ can form of government is
the cheapest in the world, and if we car
only secure an honest and economical ad-
minstration of affairs, our national deb,
will fade away, and with it, taxation would
almost entirely disappear. How trihing
our Presidents salary appears compar-
ed with the pocket money allowed to the
sovereigns of Europe! For the private ex-
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