The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-01-01
Improvement in "Sweets.''

den.-PittsblsTg Commercial Gazette.
Improvement in EE SWeets.''
Twenty five years ago a little girl who
was very good and minded her mother
| occasionally had a cent to spend for
| candy, and Fourth of July and Christ
mas brought her a quarter or a half
pound of confectionery, and, with the
| help of occasional raids on the sugar
| bowl and bit of frosted cake now and
then, she considered that her wants
were all supplied but the small girl of
| to-day expects pound boxes of all kinds
| of choice dainties at short intervals, and
| thinks that the person who gives her
cent means to insult her. 1t must be
said in defense Of the modern little girl
that the candies are a great deal nicer
and more tempting than they used to be
in the days when peppermint stick, and
lemon braid, cream, lobster, and rock
candy were the staple sweeties, and all
the fair possibilities of chocolate were
unknown. Even peppermints, which
used to be about the size of dime, and
not strong enough to keep one awake
through a whole sermon, even WHEN
ones grandmother permitted one to
steal all that one wanted from her
pocket, have now developed into great
disks that make more than one mouth
full, and are strong enough to keep a
Congressman awake through an all-night
session.
Children who ike candies that will
&" LAST buy the imperials, little cOlOred
pebbles almost as hand as adamant and
fiery flavor, whether it be cinnamon or
cloves. Girls with old-fashiOned moth
ers, who think that mOlasses is healthier
/ than have fhaiY. obnioa hatyvao,,
candy precisely like that which confec-
TONERS used to sell fifty years ago, and
Boston chips, and molasses cream
candy, which is brittle and very light
colored.
These are the candies that content lit
tie girls until they begin to 60 to school
and to feel social cares pressing upon
them, and the necessity of outshining
some one else weighs down their young
spirits. Then they come home and de-
mand gum drops, and condemn the
mammOn-wOrshipe who substitutes
gelatine for gum-arabic, and tries to de-
ceiye them. They are clamOrous for
taffy; not only the plain squares, but
the vanilla cream taffy, and EvertOn
taffy, and the little pink square drops
containing walnut meats, and the almond
t taffy; and they soon manifest a nice APP
probation of the comparative merits OF
peanut, almond and English walnut can
dies, and look with plying sorrow upon
q | the uncle who asks them if one kind OF
2 nut candy be not as good as another.
Still, after acquiring all this knowledge,
they realize that there are lOftier heights
e for them to scale, and they envy the
f grOwn-up sister who now and then gives
d, them dainties of which they do not know
: the names, and who seems, to Their
d childish eyes, to live in rain of con
It fections.
: The most delicious and most expen-
If sive of the things to be found on the
n confectioners' counters are the crystal
k lied apricots, figs, amber and greer
3 lines, pears and green cages, and mOst
e of the persons who buy them select them
almost piece by piece, making up theil
/ boxes to suit themselves. The fashion
IS of doing this has come up within a few
IS years, and the confectiOners who first
: allowed it made large profits and greatly
2 increased a demand for the better class
of candies. A customer fits from jar tC
: jar and case to case saying, 8" Give me
If this, and this, and this,'' until she car
n see nothing else that she wants, smiles a
|. little when she is told how much the
o whole weighs, and pays for a pound
II and q half of candy instead of the pound
that she meant to buy. Sherbet candy
s made up of three thin, loZenge shapeC
e layers of sugar, differing in color and
e flavor, is a favorite with high schoo
II girls, and so are the cream walnuts anC
i and crystallized walnuts. DyspepticS
, piously avoid the last two things, which
y are rather less digestible than melted
butter, but they look so nice with theil
. brown skins peeping through their coats
: of white sugar, and they are so tempt
N ing in the long thick bars into which
20 they are sometimes made, that they
II please every body. Two other kinds O.
o bar candy, the grated and sliced cocoa
ne nut, are much liked and are much solo
! for children's parties, at which it is de
J. sirable to have pretty dishes of cOnfec
y tionery, as well as broken into bits anC
re mixed with other things for boxes.
lg 1t would be possible to have varied
re stock and candies of many prices with
lie out going beyond the class of chocolates
&c which grows larger and larger every
lie year. There are several kinds of plaiI
l. chocolate lozenges, and next to them il
1t cheapness come the nonpareil chocolates
which are lozenges studded with drops
d OF sugar looking like homeopathic pill
u for fairies. Cream chocolates may bt
e filed either with vanilla or orange, as ont
y pleases, and some comfectioners use
raspberry and other fruit 1iavOrs. Van
le lila cream chocolates have little cheTrie!
Le inside them, making a delightful min
Cling of sour, sweet and bitter, and the
70 almond caramel, which comes in little
cubes cased in paper, ranks next in eX
$ cellence. This paper wrapping is al
:; improvement aided the last few years
. for convenience in packing, chocolate
being any thing but beautifer to pinl
! or white candies that lie next to it fol-
70 any length of time. Almonds are caseC
- both in plain chocolate and in mixture
of chocolate and sugar that crystallizei
upon them, in plain sugar poured upOI
them in the form of a thin strip anC
making the variety known to the trad,
as rough, and in smooth almonds which
II are polished by constantly moving the pan
sr in which they are dried. In the last va
h riety the nut is not burned; in the 9th
1T ers it is. The name of jelly chocolates
E. sounds imposing, but the things them
+ selves are rather disappointing and seen
/, rather tame after chocolate creams, bu
to they are liked by the admirers of sof
D candies.-BOStO11 Transcript.
= A LABoRING man of North Shields
W England, who was returning to his hom
of at the close of his days work, struck
st match against his trousers, and in a mo
re- ment was envelOped in flames. In lit
n tie more than a minute all the clothing
re- he had upon him was reduced to ashes
0f and he was dreadfully burned. Hi
clothes seem to have become satuarate
re- with chemicals while following his EN-
" ployment.
V & COMMITTEES of ladies entered Par