The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-01-04
WHAT WOMEN WANT TO KNOW
Sweets TO the Sweet.

Sweets TO the Sweet.
jennie June: Candy, in this country, hath
all seasons for its own; but perhaps the holiday
month CDecember) IS that one in which the
thoughts of the Young most frequently turn
towards what somebody calls "~lollipop sweet
ness The instinct is az true and sure as that
CT birds in the spring-time. and made a CAV
young city belle give up, the other day. a
lunch" a matinee, a German and the
prospect of n favorite escort to go into the
rouatry at the bidding of an old friend, to wear
a big" apron and take part IN a ''candy pull
There Is a great deal moro natnral-
ness and love of simple, honest pleasure
in people than we give them credit
tor. We hear about French glaces and bon
lons, and when a young man sends q pretty
girl y box OF sweetmeats, they are the frest
imported" with Pilt tongs to keep them from
so.linS her white fingers, but the kind OF candy
of which the most are sold at Huyier's are
| plain taffy,' "butter- SCOTCH" and old fash
inaed molasses candy. Boston "cliipsn aud
Philadeluhia ''caramels'' are all very we'll for a
iitJe, caprice, but the demand for ~''tsfyn is
Sieady, and so universal that it has become the
synonym OF a temper swettcner. Twenty-Five
inndred pounds OF candy for every day in the
year, that il Huyler's average, and out of this
pro hably 1000 pounds arc made up of tie
three simple kinds first mentioned. Candy Is not
80 ih'A, hiSi ~ Is SoDN. ana Mf. "dONlSr. VINO
began wears ago by making Il pure molas-
SIS candy aud distributing samples of it
free to all who would take it aud try it, has
aa lie his name and fortune by sticking to first
principles and maintaining an absolute stand
ard Tor his sticky commodity; That is the rea-
h'n why mothers are not afraid Of it. and why
II Is sent into the interior as far as tho Rocky
mountains and even to Paris. 1t Is curious,
bus III the French capital no such Joy for the
ttile ones as id-!ashioned molasses candy is
u DO found. The bolbons are very fancifully
dressed in all sorts of coiors, and put mp III the
most exquisite boxes. but they are very dear,
and seem only made for gifts, and not to take
home, rs we take home our sspulled" candy for
tne children to eat and enjoy. Candy pulls were
great fun in the old days, and many = ~life-lon:
acquaintance has begun by putting a girl at
one end OF Il m,lasses bar and a Young man at
tue other, aud perhaps there Is not n much
better test of how a man will stand a '.loag
puii, ana q strong pull and a pull all together"
THAN the way he works at a candy pull.
SHAM "
French milliners find it difficult to understand
the genius of American women. They are born
with q deep-rooied conviction that Americans.
including The women, are more or less savagas:
that the whoap of the aboriginal is still hearI in
the parlors of the Western continent; that they
like high coiors and flash styles. and that u thing
Is sure to "takes if there IL enough trimming
aud furbelows put upon it. That artificial flow
crs have been condemned by all the canons of
good taste on these shores they caunot believe;
oiiN on bHo Dhil dItSssS auu the DDluets,
they have cnnningly massed them upon the lin
9elie-covered iichus and fringed collarottss with
them, aud will be Disguised to find them ct Ii
neglected, still u%nsought. and doomed to waste
their initiated charms upon unappreciative air.
1t would be too much TO suppose that the pres.
ent condemnation of artificial flowers was AL
indication OF permanent reaction against un-
natural ornamentation or decorative sha
the wheel OF fashion is more infexible than
the wheel Of fortune-and must go its
rounds, aud at regular intervals come back
10 the same place. But it is at
the same time true that q strain OF practical
sense and innate tineness in American women
has always prevented them from adopting us
articles DE luxe the sham ~j.v:els and parnres
which make up SO large . part of y French
woman's decorative outfit. American men ars
willing TO invest i'll diamonds because they cou-
slider them as good as mOnsy for xil practical
purposes and in any possible crisis OF emer.
gsncy, but they care litlle for the workmanship
expended upon an Inferior base, because tni
counts for nothing in the market, and i, only
valuable if it is unique. American women,
therefore,. wear diamonds upon all occasions,
and upon extraordinary occasions all their
diamonds, but they do not take kindly to mock
jeweiry, and could never be persuaded to wear
enane.led gilt or false stones, unless it we're 10
produce the proper "tone,' and harmouize u
general effect of color.