The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-24
FOLKS WHO BUY CANDY.
Divided into Classes by the Observer
Who Puts Up Their Sweetmeats.

From the Nelc York Herald.
People don't think that we amuse our
selves by specializing on their characters
when they come in here to buy pound of
caramels, but we do all the same" re-
marked a lively young woman who presides
over the counter of an uptown confec-
tonery store as her deft fingers shaped a
piece of curiously cut cardboard into the
oblong receptacle for goodies" which is so
acceptable a gift to the vast majority of
best girls"
had entered the store and engaged her
in conversation upon another matter as
foreign to sweet meats as some of the candies
themselves are to the fruits whose names
they bear, but our BUSH ess being disposed
of, and no customers happening to claim
her attention she had exhibited an inclina-
ton for a chat.
II suppose you do have plenty of oppor-
tunity to study human nature, remarked.
Still l should scarcely have supposed you
would have cared to indulge in that
pastime"
"Oh, but we do" was the re1oinder, &C
companied by charming little pout.
"You see," she continued, 80 many differ
ent sorts of people come in here that after
little experience one is able to tell which
class a customer belongs to almost at a
glance. Ladies are our chief customers.
You want some exampless
We'll, to pay due respect to age, let us
take first that old lady with the gray hair
and beaded shawl who left the store just as
you entered it.
THE RIGHT SORT OF GRANDMOTHER.
''She is a regular customer here. She
comes twice week and always buys the
same candy-white and red sugar plums
like those in that tray. She has some little
grandchildren to whom she takes them.
How do know2 Why, she told me so one
day while | was putting up her parcel, and
She brought two such pretty boys with her
another time and mentioned that they were
her dead sons children. She is awfully
tond OF them, but when the little fellows
saw the different varieties of candy and
wanted some of that almond pistache she
wouldn't let them have it. The sugar plums
were much more wholesome, she said.
We have lots of old ladies like that one,
but some of them buy the candies for them
selves. They prefer soft candy. Why?
Easier for their gums, guess. They always
pretend it's for the children, but they are
50 anxious to taste it that they open the
package before .hey get out of the store. l
tell you. lots of white lies are told in a
candy store. Young fellows come in here
ana buy candy with sort of 'don'-know-
anything -about-it' air. They pretend it's
Tor their sisters, or their cousins. or their
sonts, you know, and they push the parcel
down into their big pockets with fire
assumption Of indifference. But IL you
watch one Of these young gentlemen you
VIII see his hand wander to that pocket be-
lore he has gone far up the street, and
something win be conveyed to his mouth
WITH kind Of guilty look around.
Then there is another kind altogether;
not so dudish as the first young men, but
quite as deceitful. They are awfuily
spoony' You can see the love oozing out
OF their eyes, and they are always quite
sure OF the kind Of candy they want, but
uesperately anxious that you shan't suspect
mat they are buying it for their best girl.
AS often as not fellow like this will make
some remark about pleasing his little sisters
with the pretty box. guess the little sis
ters never see it, though Another sort OF
young man is quite different. He comes in
ana stares rudely at the young ladies,
laughs like a great horse and says he wants
son'e candy for his best girl, doncher
xnow.' Then he'll say something stupid to
the girl who serves him and laugh at bis
own wit. Some girls encourage him; but l
cont, can tell you" And my pretty in
lormant gave defiant shake Of her little
nead and gazed around the store as if chal-
isnglng any one to contradict her.