The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-03-03
Candy-Heresy.
From the New York Ledger.

From the New York Ledger.
CANDIES is most hopeful sign
that buying confectionery for children
has very greatly diminished within the
past few years. Buy fruits and nuts if
you | ike, but by no means be persuaded
into purchasing any of the gaudy or gilt
tering affairs that attract ignorant eyes
in candy shops. Such stuff may do to
look at, but if once taken home, is quite
sure to tempt the taste, and if eaten pro-
duces dire effects. Parents who create in
their children a love for candies, and fos-
ter that taste, do not only foolish, but
wicked thing" Exchange Paper
If such pernicious sentiments as are
rashly expressed in the above paragraph
should gain 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 the children Well, what next? We
expect to live to hear good wheat de-
nounced, Indian corn prescribed, and
buckwheat cakes and molasses put under
the ban.
call any boarding school Miss, and
every boy of spirit that knows how to
smack his lips, and every jolly nurse and
sensible parent who has laid aside the
hickory stick and taken up sticks Of can
dy for discipline, to cry out and protest
against this barbarous and most cruel
crusade against candy!
Of course, if the writer will lower his
crest and say he does not mean good can
DIV in general, but only the "gaudy and
glittering affairs that attract ignorant
eyes in candy Shops" meaning thereby
poor adultarated candy with poisonous
; coloring matter, we shall accept his apol-
ogies and let him pass. But even at that,
we shall solemnly admonish him not 20
use language again capable of such dan
gerous misconstruction, when treating
upon theme so momentons to the nurse
nv, the school, and indeed to the welfare
of all children from six to sixty years of
age.
Good sugar is one the most nutritious
elements Of food. Pure candy is thepur
est form of sugar. Eaten in moderation,
it is injurious neither to the teeth the di
gestion, nor to any other in; crest of the
human system. Here are the very people
who are superstitiously afraid ofcandyand
with large-eyed wonder and domestic
horror protest against it, and take great
pride and praise to themselves for not al
lowing it in their families "No, you
never saw me give my child bit of can
dy; and, thank heaven, if my reason is
preserved, you never will !" and yet
these very persons put sugar into tea,
and coffee and chocolate; into ginger
dread, cookies and cake; into preserved
!. ounce, plum, apple, and peach; they
sift sugar over strawberries, raspberries
and blackberries they put it into Gus
tards, buildings, sauces, various and inf
mite; and children eat sugar-gents and
boys-and old folks eat sugar, and mid
IDLE aged people eat sugar, morning, noon,
and night-eat sugar, sip sugar, drink
sugar with benefit; and then, upon prim
! occasions, they wipe their mouths and
begin to deseant on the evils of candy!
as if candy wassanything but sugar!
It is true that there is great deal of
sweetened paste called candy, and much
so called French candy, which is Wiley
compounded and colored, and some kinds
of chocolate candies, and taffy, and
brandy drops, and limitations CT fruit, etc.
In other words, good candy is subject to
cake and meat.
/ Leu every ViIuouS Hail ueHouHCe Dau
candy, and honor good, pure sugar candy.
1t 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. M
Poor, prosecuted candy sweet saint of
tbs nursery, ST. Saccharissa thine honor
shall never fail while there is an irgen-
ious soul left alive to love children
kind old nurse, or a reverend grandfath-
er! But ah, saint or goddess which ever
thou art-destroy all poor candy, that
the reign of good candy may no more be
restricted by the ignorance and supersti
ton of foolish parents who think they
are prudent.-Heary Ward Beecher.