The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-09-10
THE CANDY CURSE.
An Interesting Discourse Upon q
Modern Vice.
bad Effects of Indlscriminate indulgence
in sweetmeats-Some of the Ingredi-
ents Composing the Tempting
Looking Morsels.

Crossing the East river yesterday, i
found myself next to the young mother
of a young baby. 1t was a large
eyed, pale faced baby, prettily dressed.
and held in claw-like hand stick
of peppermint candy. The mother
pinned her own embroidered handker-
chief about the little ones neck TO
catch the pinkish drops from the moist
ened CONNECTION.
How old is she?" asked |. with the
free-masonic faith that my interest
would be appreciated which apper-
tains to motherhood the world over
"Six months" returned the proud
parent. who evidently belonged TO the
second-rate middle class of American
matrons.
''Is she healthy"
We'll, not very. She suffers dread
fully with collie. but that doesn't mean
any thing. She'll come round all
right in time"
This particular specimen OF baby
hood entered upon career of vice a
trife earlier than common even for a
United States infant of the gentler sex.
hazard nothing, however. in assert
ing that seventy out of every hundred
babies born in our favored land know
the taste and consequent pangs OF the
accursed thing by the time they are
eighteen months old. Perhaps fifty
in the hundred are allowed, as year.
lings, to suck the harmless" gum
drop and try their tender teeth upon
the striped loliypOp.
A Jealous temperance crusader ran
a tilt. not long ago. against brandy
drops and rummy-hearted caramels,
declaring. truthfully enough, that
they would implant in the Juvenile
consumers of the sirupy bon-bons, a
taste for ardent spirits. The mother
who keeps her bantling good" while
she talks or works by relays of candy
more surely creates a craving which
can bring no benefit and may work in
finite evil.
The boy usually outgrows the inOr-
dinate appetite for confectionery or
INDUCES it in moderation and private
ly. 1t is girls trick and a woman's
vice.
DR.. Grace Peckham tells us in a
Home-Maker paper on The Family
Sweet TOOTH" that each member of
every household in the United States
consumes annually forty pounds of
sugar. She subjoins. opropos to lavish
consumption of the useful saccharine.
THAT it blunts the appetite. impedes
the digestion and mysteriously wreaks
vengeance on the liver, can not be
doubted"
/ know families-and not a few of
them-in which each feminine men,
Der averages a pound of candy per
week. 1t is not an uncommon thing
for couple of school girls to eat
pound of "butter-cups" or chocolates,
or ndrrons glacees, or '.jelly-creams"
at sitting. have seen the belle of
summer resort dispose with apparent
comfort of FIVE pound boxes in as many
days. So well is this passion of the
maiden's soul understood by him
whose lifelong business is to make
her happy. that he feeds it with the
regularity of grist to mill, her ruby
mouth being the hopper.
Candy shops spring up almost as
rapidly as drinking saloons in our cit
les; every cross roads country store
has its jar of stony or crumb!y sweet
ies," as our English cousins name
them; the boy who supplies passengers
on outgoing and incoming trains with
the daily papers, without which the
patriot mind can not enter upon the
days action or the nights rest, deaf
ems Us on alternate rounds with lauda-
ton of Broken candy" and, lest some
weary traveller might escape tempta-
ton, the news-stands in every station
protrude a sly rec mmendation to
drop a nickel in the slot and receive
a package of delicious bOn-bons!"
A young man. walking up Fifth ave-
nue. last week, was the edited witness
Of rencOntre between two pairs of
fashionable damsels at the junction of
the avenue with Thirty-f"urth street.
do come to the meeting of our lit
erary club this afternoon?" cried one
brace in concert. Mrs. s., the cell
ebrated elocutionist, you know. reads
The Coming Man. while we work.
Just the jolliest, pleasantest way of