The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-09
THE WORLDS SWEET TOOTH.
Increase in Consumption of Confec
tionery at Home and Abroad.

tionery at Home and Abroad.
From the London Telegraph
Not only through the East, where indul-
gence in sweets has been popular custom
from time immemorial, but in western and
northern lands as well. has the appetite for
goodies assumed formidable proportions.
Vast quantities of bonbons are disposed of
annually on the continents of Europe and
America, chiefly by the fair SEX although
German, Italian and Spanish men are great
eaters of ''pralines," chocolates la creme,
sugared almons and chrystallized fruits.
As New Year "etrennes' and birthday
offerings bonbons are more in vogue than
ever abroad and have become fashionable
on this side of the channel within the past
decade. Nogentleman of Latin or Teutonic
origin being permitted to escort ladies to
theater or concert, would upon any ac-
count fail to provide himself with an ele-
CANT bag or decorative packet of "dou-
ceurs" for their reflection during the per-
Torrance, and gorgeous "sacs de sucreres"
constitute no Insignificant item in the
budget of Partisan golden youth"
In this country the habit of nibblng
chocolate creams and sucking caramels.
formerly confined to those who, as the good
old toast says, ''double our joys and halve
our SORROWS" has acquired considerable
hold upon Englishmen of the upper and
middle classes. 1t came in after
drinking of port, burgundy and claret went
out of fashion.
The well to do Briton of the present day,
as rule, is champagne drinker, and the
consumption of sweets, pronounced by old
world connoisseurs Of "the wine when it is
red" to be fatal to anything like just appre-
citation of the flavor and bouquet of Oporto
and Bordeaux vintages, is not held to af-
feet the taste for those of Rheims and
Epernay.
He who restricts his prandial rotations to
sparkling" may, therefore. indulge in
lollipops and cigarettes to his hearts content,
without fear of being denounced as an out
ward barbarian, (which" as Macbeth re-
marked upon a memorable occasion, twas
not so before" Consequently men of good
social position, whose fathers would have
shuddered at the mere sight of stick Of
barley sugar or a slab Of taffy, may be seen
any day at dessert time devoting an ami
mated aud persevering attention to chunks
of nougat and RabaU Lakoum "fondants" Of
a dozen different stages and colors, and can
died "mandarins" or "tangerines."
In a less luxurious stratum of society the
demand for "butter scotch" and cakes of
chocolate has become so eager that railway
stations and other places Of public resort
positively bristle with mechanical contriv-
auces for conveying these ''lollies" to the for
tunate possessor of one particular demon
ination of her Majesty's bronze currency.
Sweets, in a word, are becoming power in
the state, and rule, "the camp, the court,
the grove" Even judges own their dulcet
SWAY; soldiers suck almond rock while
doing "sentry-go;" the policeman on his
beat has a bulls eye in mis- mouth as well
as in his belt, and the British tar chews an
American caramel instead Of the quid of
'pigtail" that used to distend his swarthy
cheeks in the good old days of England's
wooden walls"