Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-02-23
GAUUY-HEGESY.
BY HENRY WARD BEECHER.

3CASprEs.-It is a most hopeful sign that |
buying confectionery tor children has very |
greatly diminished within the past few |
wears. Buy fruits and nuts if you like, but
by no means be persuaded into purchasing
any of the gaudy or glittering 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 OR candies, |
and foster that taste, do not only foolish, !
but wicked thing. "-E1changs Paper.
IF such pernicious sentiments as are !
rashly expressed in tn above paragraph |
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 children! Well, what next
We expect to live to hear good wheat
denounced, Indian corn prescribed, and
buckwheat cakes and molasses put under
the ban.
I 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 candy 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 that he does not
mean good candy in general, but only
the "gaudy aud Offering affairs that
attract ignorant eyes i'll candy shops,
meaning thereby poor, aduitetated
candy, with poisonous color;ng matter,
we shall accept his apologies and let
him pass But even at that, We shall
soIeinnIy adnonish him not to use Ian
guage again capable of such dangerous
mlseunstruction, when treating upon
theme so nomentous to the nursery,
the school, and indeed to the welfare OF
all children from six to sixty years OF
age.
Good sugar is one of the most nutri-
cious elements of food. Pure candy is
the purest form of sugar. Eaten III
moderation, it is injurious neither to
the teeth, the digestion, nor to any
other interest of the human system.
Here are the very people who are su-
perstitiously afraid of candy, aud with
large eyed wonder and domestic horror
protest against it, and take great pride
and praise to themselves for not allow
ing it in their families: "No; you never
saw me give a child a bit of candy
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
bread, cookies, and cake; topreserVed
ounce, plum, apple, and peach they
sift sugar over strawberries, raspberries,
aud bIackberries they put it into
custards, buildings, sauces, various and
Infinite and children eat sugar--gents
and boys-and 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 prim occasions, they
wipe their mouths, and begin to des
cent on the evils of Candy las if
candy was anything but sugar
1t is true that there IS great deal
of sweetened paste called candy, and
much so-cailed French candy, which is
vilely compounded and colored, and
some kinds of chocolate candies, and
taffy, and brandy drops, and limitations
of fruit, etc In other words. good
candy is subject TO vile counterfeits,
and so is bread, and cake, end meat.
Let ever virtuous man denounce bad
candy, and honor good, pure sugar
candy. It should 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 zoe are
not pope, for as sure as we could
catch him, we would make him recant,
or smart for it!
Poor, prosecuted Candy sweet sain.
of the nursery, st. Saccharissa thine
honor shall never fail while there is an
ingenious soul left alive TO love chill
dren--a kind cid nurse, or reverend
grandfather But ah. saint of goodness
whichever thou art--destroy all poor
candy. that the reign OF good candy
may no more be restricted by The ig
norance and superstition of foolish par
ents who thiak they IRE prudent!
This reminds US that Tom Moore,
on the bridge, always keeps the kind
of candy SO highly recommended and
spoken Of by Rev. Henry Ward
Beecler, and should our city be ever
visited by the Reverend gentleman be
would doubtless be attracted into our
friend Toms establishment to partake
of some of the good, pure candy that
is always for sale at this favorite place.
Mr.. Moore manufactures all his own
candy, and hence can recommend the
quality.
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