Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-16
Fashions in Penny Goods.
Endless Devices for Children that a
 Made for Less than Half a Cent Each.

Endless Devices for Children that are
 Made for Less than Half a Cent Each.
 From the New York Sum-
 "Penny goods 8 speciality is one of the largest signs on Canal street. It is over 8 candy store. The proprietor answered the question, ''What kind of penny goods are there in the candy trade ?'' with the reply, s'Theres more'n million of 'em.' An ex- animation of his stock showed him to be in a measure accurate, supposing that his shelves showed all the kinds in existence. He said, however, that no fashions are so ephemeral as fashions in candy penny goods; he could scarcely keep run of them himself The manufacturers are in all the big cities, and those who supply New York are in Portland, Boston, Philadelphia and New York They have immense factories, employ armies of hands, and make. so he thought, 8 mint of money. He instanced the case of firm in Portland, Maine. They arc almost monopo- lists in the manufacture of chewing gum They make the white gum that the city boys and girls fancy and the spruce gum that always sells best in the country. There IS never any change of the popular taste for chewing gum. It is as much a staple with children as tobacco with men. Its form changes once in while but not 80 greatly or so often as is the case with candies. City children take most kindly to the white, clear gum, which is simply paraffine wax. The spruce gum that country children like is supposed to be made of the gum of the spruce tree, but New York dealer, by the use of rosin and one or two other ingredients, imi ates it closely. There is New Yorker, also, who has patented gum that is very popular. It comes in sticks, looks like a pressed paste of cigar ashes, and when chewed assumes the appearance of putty. It is sometimes called rubber gum and sometimes snapping gum. because it stretches and when stretched too much it snaps.
 Chewing gum has as conspicuous place in the miscellany of penny goods as it appears to have in the hearts of children. It is the basis of innumerable prize packages The Canal street man exhibited box after box of prizes to be drawn by numbers enclosed in penny packets of chewing gum. There were the billiard ball prize box, the sunfower package, the roller-skate package, the kalei- doscope package and the prize chewing gum package. The boxes go with the gum. Each piece of gum is wrapped up in paper bear boxes have four trays. The first tray in the billiard ball box has big balls of candy, the second and third smaller balls of candy, with elastic cords and rings affixed in imitation of returning balls, the fourth still smaller candy globes without elastic cords. Penny kaleido- scopes the chief prizes in another box and children's roller skates in another, the boxes being filled with cheap jewelry, sheets of shelf paper, Sunday school notices, scrap book pictures, dolls toys and all sorts of things that can be given away with a stick of chew ing gum for one cent.
 ssThe run just now," said the dealer, "is on imitation marshmallow. It is mostly cov- cred with chocolate. It is so light and un- substantial and so cheap that bigger cakes of it can be sold for cent than of anything else. That makes it popular with the chil- dren. Candies the same size make of other materials would cost the maker 8 cent. These cost him 8 quarter of g. cent. That's why it is popular with the manufacturers"
 The reporter saw jujube paste in forms so numerous as to lead him to Relieve it also boxes of sfresh shad" of juju' iujube shap- ed like loaves of bread '.em ants made of iuiube, and jujube in twe-.y other shapes. With these, in the show case, were demon ade suckers" long strips of porous candy with holes through the centres assorted iawbreakers,' D hard balls of sugar candy, six or ten for a cent, according to their size; 'slicorice and sugar." match boxes of tin fill ed with candies the size of bird shot; "Sar- atoaa kisses,' which were squares of COCOA nut candy; 'ice cream sets," which consist ed of tiny tin plate of cream like candy, tiny tin spoon, and the smallest imaginable crackers 'French fats,'' which were flat pieces of gum candy and so on. The dealer said there was as much in the names of these candies in patterns.
 There were penny candy goods, also, which were intended to initiate or suggest to the juvenile purcnaserS trdnstcIlons Iihe tuose oI their parents in the adult world of commerce. There were dishes of licorice candies bearing the words "One cent 8 measure" or of other sweetmeats branded ''One cent cup" " and the little cups or measures of shining tin rest ed temptingly on the heaps of goods. There were strawberries, cherries, smoking pipes of sugar and innumerable other devices, for, as
 dealer said, 'they are all made in moulds,
 it does not cost much to change the
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 ,rn was also the basis of lottery