St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-19
FATAL CANDY HEART.
Abnormal Craving for Sweet
meats Almost as Deadly
as Cigarettes.
The Candy Habit Drives Out
the Healthier Appetite
for Beefsteak.
Startling Amount OF Sweets
Consumed by the Aver
age Girl.
Every Third Order at a Candy
Counter Calls for Insidi-
Gus CarameIS.

one swept lnIO Il IdSnl OnaOle canuy
store in the shopping district. placed
her bundles on the counter, tied her pet
dog to the leg of chair, sank down he
fore an Ice cream table and ordered a
glass OF hot soda, says a writer in the
New York World. Then she sent word
to the clerk for four pounds of caram-
els, assorted favors.
When she had gone l ambled up to
the proprietor and asked him few
questions about young women who buy
candy.
THE kind chiefest in demand?'' l
said.
without d oubt, caramels. These
sre the first choice of the average Amer
lean girl. [ never could explain it," he
went on, "but for some seasons cara
mels have held the call"
How about gum drors?"
"Oh, that is a fallacy of the funny
man. According to that genius, the
young women of our land feast day and
night on gum drops and bon 6ons: but
they don't. so that settles it. just stand
here moment and listen to the Or
ders''
went over to the big counter and
watched the ebb and flow of women
buying candy. 1t was new expert
ence.
First. a big, dashing brunette, with
an armful of parcels. edged up to the
clerk and said: "Please give me a
pound of nougatelles." She went away
humming soft tune. Then came
along middle-aged girl, with cork
screw curls, and it took her Just three
minutes to settle on her brand. She
purred softly to herself, tasted here and
there, and finally murmured for gum
drops. y beautiful blonde wouldn't
be satisfied with anything other
than three pounds of marsh
mallOws and stick OF gum: girl who
looked like an old maid snickered and
said she guessed she'd have caramels;
an elderly dame, in mourning habit.
whispered for pound of violet and rose
leaves; a school girl wanted caramels; a
maiden who strongly reSembled the girl
who waits on a certain table in certain
restaurant spoke soft and low for three
ounces of silver drops and stick of
lemon candy; and SO on for half an
hour.
But every third order was for cara
mels.
All this settled it at once in my mind
that the candy devotee is no longer con-
tent with few modest varieties, as in
the good old days when you and | used
to esteem it the privilege of our lives to
have stick of barber-pole candy out of
a dingy glass in the old white grocery
store down in the Twelfth ward. Time
was when the generation ate mOIaSSeS
candy and peppermints, but that time
is now swept away for good and all.
Here are some of the changes:
The young women of the hour call for
such things as these: Nut bars, crys-
taliZed fruit. rose leaves, violet drops.
buttercups, jujube paste, crushed straw
berries.
Nor are those changes without their
their effect. 1t takes but a glance, as
one trips through the shopping district,
to notice and to point out the young
woman who is pronounced candy de-
voice.
Her complexion is pale. Her gait is
Slow and uncertain. Her eyes are dull
and CLASSY. At home she is liStlesS and
idle. Her appetite is poor. She is cas-
lily discouraged. She hates to do house
work She begins to pine and sigh for
the moon. In brief, she is utterly mis-
cradle.
In this world of ours action and re-
action are always equal and in opposite
directions, The base ball player. push
ing his twists and curves too far, IS
oNIECu WIN tudb pCCuIidI MUSCULAR
affection known. for want of better
name, as pitchers sore arm:" the den
fist, standing for hours and hours be-
fore his chair, by and by contracts the
disease that SeiZeS on all good
teeth dOctOrs-liver complaint; the
telephone girl, using one ear all
day long, and all week long and all
year long, listening to millions of
hellOs, is taken finally with the subtle
malady "the telephone ear" and as for
such common things as writer's cramp,
painters collie, and all the rest, they
need only be mentioned to bring to mind
ness. pursued too far, in the end turn
upon their devotees and visit them with
some distressing punishment.
WHAT Is the fate of the candy devotee?
1t is not long since the world was
startled by the announcement of gum
chewer'S cramp, an afflictiOn that car
rieS off American girls by the hundreds,
as the result of over-taXatiOn of the
muscles OF the jaws, the result being
sort of lockjaw rlgidness of those mus
cles fairly defying medical treatment.
You will hear today through the
World, for the first time, perhaps, of
another strange evil that has crept into
American life, and will soon be moving
down the faireSt girls in the land.
1t is no less deadly an aff1iction than
what physicians, unable to find a better
name, have resolved for the present to
call 'candy heart"
Good candies, in moderation, do not
harm. Indeed the system Graves sweets.
But with the introduction of so many
deleteriouS compounds. a girl eating
candy day aud night cannot hope
to escape harmful results. An
interesting estimate has been made of
the amount of candy eaten in a few
years by the average young American
girl. At the rate of pound a day we
have seven pounds per week. or S65
pounds per year. Then. leaving a lib
eral margin for presentation boxes, etc..
the conclusion is inevitable that in i've
years girl will devOur over a ton OF
sweets,
Candy heart. what is it?
When girl begins to feed herself
day and night on all sorts of candies
she is on the fair way toward becoming
afflicted with this new and deadly dis
ease. candy heart. First she becomes
listless and languid; her complexion
becomes sallow; her eyes lose their lus-
ter: she yearnS for the unattainabie;
her days are passed in a strange atmOS-
phere of deep-blue haZineSS.
What is the matter? Her friends are
filled with suggestions. Send her to
Florida. 1t would be useless. Send her
to the country. No good. Send her to