The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-09-10

spending a quiet hour you can
imagined"
What kind of fancy work do you
take?"
''Oh" a giggled Duet. I'VE cal
candy, and wait for The Coming
Man you know!'
Eat candy?" When does not the
girl of the period devour It? A sallow
child of fourteen was a.guest in my
house for some weeks. Her mother
committed her to me with many in
functions TO extreme care and tender
ness. She had never been strong. and
was rapidly falling into the confirmed
delicacy so common in the growing
girl, that neither mother nor daughter
is as much ashamed of it as she should
be of such wretched piece of work.
The an lious but resigned parent in
this case supposed" as did my ferry
boat acquaintance. that it would all
come right by and by"
1T was very far wrong now. The
girl, dwarfed in stature, and yellow
brown of skin. was prey TO dyspepsia
and sick headaches. For four success
sive nights / was summoned to her
room to administer remedies for cramp
and nausea She was a sweet, patient
little thing. and unaffectedly dis
tressed by the trouble she gave. But
she was subject to these attacks. So
was mamma. Mamma supposed she
inherited them"
As she turned on the pillow in
moaning out the borrowed phrase, |
heard the rustic of paper. Thrusting
my hand under the bolster, / drew
forth paper of chocolate comfits and
cocoanut-balls.
In nowise abashed by my Mortified
look. the sufferer explained languidly:
81 always like to have some candy
where i can eat il in the night if i
awake and feel lonesome. Mamma
used TO leave a paper of gum-dropS
under my pillow. when l wasn't more
than baby. SOS wouldn't be afraid
to GO to sleep in the dark. It's a great
deal OF company. Mamma calls candy
my bedside comforter.
Inquiry showed that her father al
lowed her twenty-five cents a week
for "candy-money." OF course. she
bought only the cheapest kinds. in or
der to get enough to last.
Confscation of the poisonous stuff,
and gentle remonstrance with the
tractable child against the habit L
could not condemn unsparingly, since
her mother had inculcated it. wrought
a rapid and blessed change. In a
months time she was plump. rosy and
SO well that my heart ached when /
had to return her to her natural
guardians.
There is little or no nourishment in
sugar as an exclusive article Of diet
But if babies, schoolgirls, society
bellies. mothers and grandmothers
would satisfy their lust for sweets
with pure sugar-or even the sugar of
commerce-the mischief done would
be reduced to a minimum.
DIR. Edison enumerates among the
substances added for increasing the
weight of candy. "Terra alba, kaolin
(decOmposed feldspar). whiting. starch
and ground quartz" Among the
coloring substances used to make our
candy pleasant to the eye. he gives
arsenic. chromium and lead. Adult
terations for favor are managed by
help of a distillation of rancid butter,
wood alcohol and oil of vitriol." into
essence of pineapple; also by fusel
oil and prussic acid" while "a very
fragrant, fruity essence may be made
of rotten cheese by treating it with oil
OF vitriol and bichromate of potash"
Much of the cheap chocolate sold at
corner candy stores is mixed with clay
colored with burnt lumber.
The taste for sweets rs natural, and,
if INDUCED within bounds, innocent.
The craving for buildings. ices and
sweetmeats at the conclusion of q
meal, leads to the introduction OF
healthful acids into the busy
stomach, which neutralize alkalis and
help on the specific end of assimila-
tiOn.
The practice of munching, at all
times and seasons, bon-bons, expensive
or cheap, until the stomach and that
mysterious potentate the liver, are
provoked to vengence sure and dire,
is what | have called it-a senseless
vice, and a crying curse. Marion Har.
land, in Once Week.
Egg Balls With Soup.-Rub the
yelks of three or four hard boiled eggs