St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-26
YOUNG LADIES WHO CHEW.
Gum and the Kind OF People That
Use it.
Washington. Star.

Washington. Star.
Don't you chew, Rosa? You don't.
Why how funny All us girls chew; it's
awfully jolly. Oh, you little goosey!
What's the matter with you? You look as
if I'd told you had mouse in my bosom,
or some other dreadfully awful thing. We
don't chew tobacco, nor snuff-oh, horrors!
think of my chewing snuff. Why, oh, you
little GOO! We just chew gum" They
were couple of West end bellies, and did
not know the Star man heard them. Or,
rather, one of them was a West end girl,
the other might have been stranger.
cts nice white gum" the first one con-
tinued, land mamma don't know it. Nor
Hernando-Oh, gracious no! I wouldn't
have him know for the world. He came
near catching me the other day, though.
Didn't tell you about it? Oh! just think
of it; it would have been all broken off at
once Wouldn't it have made stir? You
see, he came upon me suddenly and wanted
to kiss me by surprise"
MY! What did you do?"
''Swallowed it."
'Gracious!" And Rosa held her hands
in the air for minute and said: ''Oh,
my" and gracious" once or twice, and
then they had got out of hearing.
''Do you sell gum" asked the Star man
of the blonde young man who stands in the
drug store on the corner.
do you want it perfumed?" he said, as
he handed out fancy green box, on the
lids of which were two chromos chewing
gum. Inside the box was full of little
sticks about an inch and a-half long, done
up in white tissue paper with fringe twisted
at either end and colored with fancy dyes.
That's the kind we sell the most of.
White gum, sweetened and perfumed. We
have the spruce if you prefer it,"
''You sell it to school children" Sug-
gested the scribe as starter.
Not this. It's too fine for them. They
chew the plain white, without the perfume,
or the spruce. Some of them like the spruce
best because it has stronger taste. This
is for our better customers"
"Who are your better custOmers?"
''Why. young ladies'"
WHAT"
eyes sir, lots of the young ladies in the
West end chew gum. | sell great qiian-
ity of it to them. OF course, they wouldn't
want anybody to know-dOn't let them
know l told you! They come in here and
buy it on the quiet, like an old topper buys
his grOg in a temperance neighborhood.
Some of them chew it just like man does
his tobacco, only they don't chew on the
street Hardly! 1t starts in with the little
misses and runs clear up to the young la
dies in society They do all their chewing
at home, mostly in the morning. Some
times little party of them will sit around
and gossip and chew, but they've got to be
pretty close friends 1t wouldn't do for
some one to betray them to their beaus. 1t
would be all up with a girl if the young men
found she chewed gum. Some girls like to
sit about in their wrappers in the morning
and chew while they read novels. They
take to chewing gum like school girls do to
pickles. Some of them have to hide it
from their mammas, and they have ter
ribe time of it. Sometimes they will come
in and say: Another stick, please then
they will turn to each other and tell how
they had to throw that they got in the
morning out the window, swallow it, hide
it in their bosom, or something of that sort,
because their mammaS or somebody sur
prised them. | find out all about it from
their talk among themselves, They never
think to pay any attention to clerks, you
know. From what | hear them say, some
of them hide it in their shoe tops or in
their stocking legs. But for goodness sake
don't say anything about that. | wouldn't
have them know | heard for the world"
The young man blushed violently. and be-
gan to wash tumbler at the soda fountain
to hide his confusion.
You see" he continued. unwrapping
one of the little sticks, you see. they like
this kind because it isn't sticky