The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-08-25
A Chapter on Candy.

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prominent grocery store.
No potatoes to-day" said the "sweet'
clerk, who Was filing box with goodies;
:sbut we have Abbott kisses aud apricot
slices, and all the nut creams and
candies.
| ST don't like Abbott kisses, they are SO
sweet and large; but dote on potatoes.
Give me mixed box with plenty OF
marsh -mallows and Venetian walnuts."
"What are Abbott kisses? and why are
you out of potatoes? There must be
plenty in the market" asked and sug-
| gested representative of The Post and
Tribune to the good-looking proprietor,
who had one eye on his customers In
| side of the store and the other on two
ladies outside, who were trying to upset
| q buggy on the Campus Martius.
did you ever see our potato patoh?"
he inquired pleasantly. when he had
reconclled his visual organs. "Come up-
stairs, and will show you how We grow
| our potatoes, and how Abbott kisses"
Then the voice became indistinct, and
the elevator being brought into requisi-
ton, the visitor was taken up into the
third story into ssugar room," where
| the interesting process of making candy
was fully explained.
It was on large scale; some dozen or
| more of copper boilers, over hot fur
naces, were simmering With sweet de-
| coctions that gave out fragrant odors,
| and men in linen clothes and paper caps
| were lad1ipg out the sweet stuff into
shapes and essences. At q row of long
tables stood pretty, clean. modest look
| ing girls who were ssugaring Off or fin-
ishing off all the delightful pink, white
and chocolate creams that are indispens-
able to those who have sweet tooth.
Trays and trays by the dozens and hun
dreds were loaded with the dainty bon
bons. A sheet of caramel substance was
laid on striped measuring table, and
with machine out into squares of geo.
metrical precision. Other girls wrapped
the single caramals one at q time in
little square pieces of white paper called
parafine.
Here are our potatoes" said the pro-
| prietor, taking up some small brown
balls. They were white within and brown
| without; soft enough to bite into, cinna-
| mon-favored and delicious, with some
quality that prevented them from pall-
| ing on the taste.
| "And the Abbott kisses?"
| Mr.. Hull discovered tray filed with
triangles of sugar and cocoanut In irrsg-
ular sections. They tasted so much bet
ter than they looked that the name
seem accounted for. Then there were
Spanish kisses and delicate but rather
unsubstantial sweet called the .sLangtry
/ kiss" sort of elusive, sublimated,
ethereal thing with sugar coating.
There were barrels of white sugar
standing about everyw here, and the yis-
itor thoughtlessly asked where the glu-
cose and -four were kept.
1--WE don't use them, said Mr.. Hull,
and we can make all the money we want
| without either. Ours is the only candy
manufsctory open to the public. Any
one can see, the process and what We
use."
A very s'sweet" girl was dropping
pink nut-creams from knife into cum
ming little shapes of regular size and
beauty. The best candies are not mixed
but go into the cases each kind into 9
separate division. It is the customer
who decides the mixing.
It is the way the ladies dissipate
They go to the public library and get 8
novel. Then they stop at the candy
counter and get pound of sweets. Or
Saturday nights it is like Macy's bargain
counters in New York. Men, women
and children waiting their turn. The
variety of the candies is endless; so il
the variety of customers. AS rule {
man asks for 'sbox of your best can
dies" and the clerk asks him If he vii
have one-pound or two.pound box
Then he stops to think. If he is middle
aged with bald spot on the top of hi
head, he says one pound; but as rul.
he is not middle aged, or if he is, his af-
fections are not. The clerk knows hi
customer. He gives him box with lao,
edges on the inside, two-pound box
and he crowds in the best and choices
. sweets. Very likely he knows "her
tastes, and he makes the box of cand,
, weigh two and half pounds, and ther
is not word of complaint.
The dashing young man buvs pouns
unless he is very much in love; then b.
wants cornucopia filled or q fsnc,
basket with ribbon bow on the corner
and gotten up regardless" The chea]
young man with q small salary and larg
ideas sometimes makes the mistake of sc
. lecting cheaE,candy for q sub-stratun
with big fat creams and rose walnuts 70
top layer, and if his girl is sensible sh
viii see through his pretenses and bu.
her candy henceforth.
The father of family may be know,
by the way in which he selects his hall
pound and stows it away in his coat-tai
pocket. It would never do to approac
his domicile with the package in hi
hand. When the children have gone t
, bed he takes it out, and after he surfeit
. himself the mother takes what is left a
to their dormitory and leaves it wher
, they will see it in the morning. II th
! father gives it to them he tells ther
{ it is sure to make them sick, destro
! their teeth ,spail their complexions, max
, them GROSS, and take away their apps
| tites, eli of which is arrant nonsense an
he knows it.
D 1t is great mistake" /" said Mr.. Hu
as he stood at the candy counter and con
! mented on the crowd, which now includ
8 ed prominent lawyer and doctor {
: divinity, ito suppose that men do NJ
/. like candy. They are really fond OF i
|. and unless they have impaired digestio
o eat heartily of it whenever hey get
, chance. know young m in thl
q city who spends one evening in ever
3 week with some excellent young ladies
! and he always takes them two poun
box OF candy, and they explain laugh
1 ingly, that Mr.. was SO fond OF ia
> candy that when he brought them bo
he ate il nearly all himself. .-Detrol
Post and Tribune.
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