Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23
wtog. Gum.

CheWtug.Gums
IA dozen sticks of chew1ng-gum..
please,'' said a portly, g%ray-haired man
as he stepped into a confectionery store
on Third avenue. A bystander recogg--
nized him as a leading West Side mer--
chant, and, as he departed withhis pur--
chase, said:
''That is a singular habit for MI. -
| to encourage in his children, said q re-
porter.
"Children! That man is a bachelor.
and one of the best known club men i'm
! New York"
"For whom does he buy chewingg-gum,
them"
"For himself. He is a dyspeptic, or
was, for he claims that chewing-gum
relieves him from the unpleasant effects
of that disease. He is some of my regular
| patrons"
els he the only dyspeptic who buys
itp"
ooh. no There are several, to say
nothing of actors and singers. Why,
one Of the best known actresses in
America chews gum persistently when
off the stage-not for amusement, you
understand, but for its beneficial effect
upon her voice, which is always clear
and full. She relates with great Salts
faction that one evening, while playing
to o full house, she discovered, while
facing her listeners in the most impor-
tant act in the play, where she rises TO-
a height of passion that is simply mag
n%ificent, that a piece of gum of generous
proportions was in her mouth, with no
opportunity to remove it.
"I never was more warmly applaud
ed in my life,' she says, and 1 never
spoke the lines better; but I am sure
people in the orchestra chairs must have
of my cheeks
s.Then, again, there are several we'll
known singers who use gum for the
same purpose. But the bulk of the
trade IS with children, who, since the
invention of the everlasting gum,' get,
an indefinite amount of consolation from.
q single stick"
"Our gum is manufactured from the
sap of a Mexican tree, whose fruit is
pretty we'll known as the sapodilla or
sapota," said the head of a mandatory
in Murray street which supplies more
than half the chewing-gum sold in this
country. sIt's popularity is probably
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not changed by use, Here are our prin--
cipal styles" and he exhibited several
packages, richly ornamented and re-
serbling the elaborate boxes in which,
ladies' stationery is frequently sold.
One box was composed of small, round
sticks, tightly wrapped in t~in-foil; an
other of thin, square pieces, wrapped ina
colored paper; another of long sticks,
notched at regular intervals for separa-
ton. Still another kind was mixed
with ~licorice and recommended for
colds.
"Of adult gum-chewers," said the
manufactures, 1--WE probably have more
among u patrons than all the retail
confectionery stores in the city, since
this class of customers have a naturali
= dislike to buying chewing gum over a,
5 counter. We have many patrons
actors, singers, dyspeptics and reformed
> tobacco chewers-who buy chewing
, gum a box at a time. A wholesale mer-
l chant in Chambers street says the use of
gum has cured him of dyspepsia. One
Of the lady members of the Amaranth
), Dramatic Society, of Brooklyn, will
neyer play without first chewing gum,
= and a well-known singer in a leading
= Brooklyn choir is one of II regular
: patrons. Several actors and actresses
= buy of us regularly. The President of
> the Union National Bank in Wall street
cured himself of the tobacco habit by
the use of gum, and many others have
done the same. Some use the gum
mixed with tobacco, and gradually dim
, inish the amount of the latter. Others
!. use the gum for the real or imaginary
J relief it gives to other troubles. A man
= = in Vesey street, who had a tumorin one
: of his cheeks, keeps the nerves quiet by
: chewing gum. But the principal patrons
are, of course, the children. The largo
. markets for chewing gum, outside of
: New York City, which consumes an inn
mense amount, are in the West and
! Southwest. The gum is handled by four
classes of Observation-Disclosures, whole
sale g%rocers, druggists and fancy goods
: : and notion men,"
: 'The staple classes of chewing gum
are about six" said a clerk who handles
> the gum trade of one of the largest gro
Gerry houses in the city. There is ever
lasting gum-gum mastic, parafine
gum, spruce gum, taffsy tolu and the
old-fashioned swapping gum. I give YOU
, the names by which they are known to
the children. The spruce gum is manu-
= featured in New England, the largest
mandatory being at Portland, Me-, but
; the new gums have largely driven it
' from the market and we have very little
= demand for it. There is more of the
everlasting or rubber gum sold than OF
!, all the other varieties together.'-M. r.
, Sun.
! U%ndertakers' Enormous Profits.