The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1885-09-04
THE EVOLUTION OF CANDY.
Sugar In Ancient Timss-Its Medical Use
An American Candy Shop.
Frank Leslie's nlustrated

Sugar In Ancient Timss-Its Medical Use
AN American Candy Shop.
Frank Lesie's Illustrated
II was In the form Of white crystalline
candy that sugar was introduced into
Europe through China Sugar was the
name given TO the Chinese candy. Its deri.
walton, however, Is from the Indian shukar
naturally enough, as through India it
came into Europe. Candy Is q more recent
term and has rent the philologists, who are
divided between Gambia, whore the Spanish
introduced work In sugar; the Arabic
Gambia, the In liam khand and the
Latin candidum But after tho industry
was establish he'd In Europe and sugar-houses
were built. its use was largely increased. in
the form Of medicine. 1t Is anu ing to rea
Of the doctors quarrels. Several physi-
clans, under the leadership OF DR.. Will, in
seventeenth century. formed a society Of
anti-saccharit,S Sugar. they said, makes
hogs flesh tender, therefore tends TO de-
cay. Taken into the human system, 1t
makes the lungs spongy To Its use they at
tributed consumption, never before known,
and now largely increasing. Another ply
stefan writes: ITO drink diluted sugar
reau sucre Of Francois as pernicous as to
drink aquafortis."
Their opponents joyfully sung:
That which preserves apples and plums,
VIII also preserve liver and lungs"
Scurvy was then the fashionable disease,
as malaria is now, and sugar was the
fashionable remedy. Theoiore Sala. the
Dutch-Italian physician, cured wounds with
sugar. Scenery, on the other hand, believed
that sugar caused the vapors-in our day
we would say, sulkS We know better; and
that, on the contrary, neglect to bring home
q boz OF chocolate creams or marrons-
glaces has been known TO bring on the
vapora But Stare was the great defender
OF sugar. In IT'S he wrote his "Vindication
OF Sugar" In which he unhssitatingly
affirms that |to defraud infants of sugar IL
very cruel thing, II not a crying shame"
This Is true, and yet Stare awaits his monu-
ment! He also advises the use Of sugar as
tooth-powder. He relates numerous In
stances Of wonderful cures through sugar.
But the evolution OF candy beyond the
medical point Of view has been great In
England candy still has q medicinal flavor
but In France 10 has been carried to great
perfection. French candy Bon -bonsi
What visions Of delight arise at the souni
The genius OF Franco, however, has been
towards chocolate CONNECTIONS and candle i
fruits. roor Sirandin obtained renown by
his candied violets rather than by his plays
But tho highest Development of candy
proper has been reached In thi. country
and goes on from day to day. New candies
arise like new fashions. and pale. and ars
heard OF no more as newer candies appear
A weli-known confectioner here, as another
artist. composes his candies.
II Is the brains we pay for, even in candy
and no public like tho American public
shows greater appreciation. Paris has moth
ing like Broadway candy store. for Paris
has no such candy. An American candy
shop on the Boulevard dss Capucines would
slectrify the town. Fancy the scene 80
familiar to our eyesi The crowd Of we'll
dressed men and women thronging the
counters. the smiling girls weighing out
heaps OF shining buttercups, Boston chips
the opera favors. the uougatine and choco-
late concealing drops Of jelly like hidden
Jewels; and, more than all, conceive Of the
line Of men and women slipping from their
long, slender spoons leo cream soda with
peach syrupI