The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-12-05

lady customers mostly run On plair
"home made" mixed candies. They
come at about 40 cents a pound. are
pretty to look at, and each pound
package contains perhaps dozen va
rieties. The quantities Of such candies
that the ladies muuch on the street o.
an afternoon would astonish yoa. We
have cheaper grades Of the same kind
that are mostly for school girls, shop
girls and Others who can not afford t.
pay much money" "Do school girl:
eat much ?" asked the reporter. Next
to shop girls and matiree-goers they
are the most ravenous of our custom
ers. Of course the matinee-soer Is the
most voracious consumer known to
the trade. What the peanut is to the
gallery god, the bon-bon is to his more
highly favored sister in the pit. Yes.
the school girl is most favored buyer.
Elderly ladies who buy 'for the chill
dren' are pretty reliable too, and SO
are ministers. You may smile at that
but ministers eat good deal of candy.
They mostly affect candies got up in
the grlise Of cough drops. throat lozen-
gers and all that. There's one dealer
down the street has made rock candy
bulb with a liquid drop of hcarhound
ia The center that the ministers and
SUNDAY school teachers and choir sing
ers have al gone wild about. A rival
dealer who got envious of IS trade
in the church started a malicious story
that the liquid drop of hoarhound in
the rock candy bulb wasn't hoarhound
at all, but a drop of q new kind Of
ROCK AND Rye
genuine old rye, so to speak. but. of
course, that was vile SANDER Speak
ing of rock candy, by the way. We sell
loads Of it to be mixed with rye whis-
Ky fer the use Of people of cousump-
tive tendency. Rock candy is the
purest candy known. 1, is the finest
of white sugar crystalized by heat into
cubes and other forms as colo-less As
glass"
"De men generally eat much can
dy?" continued the reporter.
eyes, the young ones do-that il,
tbev buy a great deal. Of course their
girls get m, ST of it, suppose. Men,
as a rule, when they sit down to a can
dy bout like TO make business of it.
When a man gets candy hungry he
comes in here, buys half a pound Of
peanut taffy, takes it to his office and
sits down and gorges himself. Then
be washes his hands and mouth, which
by the time he gets through are shock
ingly bedaubed, and he don't touch
candy again for month, or until the
craving comes on him again. Men
who are habitual drinkers or who chew
tobacco never, or rarely, eat candy.
Nor do they care for fruit. You can
go to any Of these little fruit stands
and they will tell you their poorest
customers are men who drink whisky.
SEXTON, THE CHAMPION.
The heaviest candy eater know of
in st. Louis is Chief Sexton, of the
fire department. He is never without
candy in bis pockets, and be probably
buys more than any individual consul
mer in town. But then he never
drinks, as everybody knows; never
uses tobacco and never swears. He
goes into the consumption of candy
with taste unvitiated AID lips noted
for their moral purity. There is some.
thing akin to poetic sentiment in the
way that a man so eminently free
from the demoralizing vices as he can
create havoc in a first-class confection-
cry. There IS another class of male
buyers whose trade is worth some
thing continued the confectioner,
'tand those are the callsw youths who
are sweet on somebody and want to
aid their suit with bonbons. Some
times. for instance. when they belong
to the jeunesse doree, we can not keep
goods expensive enough for them. |
They always buy our very finest Of
French glaces and bonbons, and often |
they spend $40 on single purchase.
These frequently have imitators from
that class who are close followers of
rich young men without exactly know
ing where the money is to come from
to pay.for it. We often sell OBJECTIONS
at 81 pound to young men with ST.
canes, to whose washwoman
the 81 would be joy and blessing.
other customers, and quite
ones, too, are those ladies
who buy candies for their pet dogs.
Just before you came in here a lady
bought whole pound of fine candies
she gave dollar for it-for her
Skye dog, Box The dog is about as
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