The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-25
CANDY HEART.
"a New Kind Of Fate That Details
Modern Young Women.
The Constant Uso OF sweetmcats DIsas-
trous to tho Hoalth-Its Insidious
Effects Ultimately Lead to
Death.

She swept into u fashionable candy
store in the shopping district, placed
her bundles on tho counter, tied her
pet dog to the leg of n chair, sank down
before an ice-cream table and ordered n
glass of hot soda. Then she sent word
to the clerk for four pounds of cara
mels, assorted flavors.
When she had gone ambled up to
the proprietor and asked him n few
questions about young women who buy
candy, says New York World writer.
'sThe kind chiefest in demand?n I
said.
without n doubt caramels. These
are the first choice of the average
American girl. 1 could never explain
it," he went on, but for some seasons
caramels have held the CALI
''How about gum-drops?"
"Oh, that is a fallacy of the funny
man. Acc ording to that genius, the
young women of our land feast day and
night on gum-drops and bonbons; but
they don't, and so that settles it. Just
stand here moment and listen to the
ORDERS
went over to the big counter and
watched the ebb and flow of women
buying candy. Every third order was
for caramels.
All this settled it at once in nv mind
that the candy devotee is no longer con-
tent with n 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-polc candy out of
dingy glass, in the old white grocery
store, down in the Twelfth ward.
lime was when the generations ate
molasses candy and peppermint, but
that time is now swept away for good
and all. Here are some of the changes:
The young women of the hour ca IL for
such things as these: Nut bars, crys-
tallized fruit, rose leaves, violet drops,
buttcrcups, jujube paste, crushed straw
berries.
Nor are these changes without their
effect. 1t takes but glance, US one
trips through the shopping district, to
notice and point out the young womand
who is the pronounced candy dcvotec.
What is the fate of the candy Devoted
1t is not long since the world was
startled by the announcement of gum
chcwcr's cramp, an affiiction that
carries off. American girls by the hun
dreds, as the result of overtaxation of
tue muscles of the jaws, the result be-
ing sort of loclsjaw rigidness of those
muscles, fairly dcfying medical treat
mcnt
You will hear to-day for the first
time, perhaps, OF another strange evil
that has crept into American life and
will soon be moving down the faircst
girls in the land. 1t is no less deadly
an affliction than what physicians, I'M
able to find n better name, have re-
solved for the pre- sent to call ''candy
heart"
Candy heart, what is it?
When girl begins to feed herself day
and night on all sorts of candies she in
on the fair way towards 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 unattainable; her
days are passed in strange atmos-
phere of deep-bluc haziness. In time
the tissues of her heart change to the
fiber of jujubc paste! No longer does
she find pleasure in life. Her appetite
is gone. Her complexion is gone. She
lives in hazy dreams. AS for beef
steak, potatoes, ham, eggs, pickles
bah! She dcspises them. She ycarns
for sweets. Day and night it is the
same. She eats nothing but candy.
Her fate is terrible. Then for the last
scene of all. Life has become a bur-
den. She wishes she had never seen
a caramel. She wishes that she had
never touched pound of crystalized
violets. Rose leaves she despises. In,
vain.
Then, one bright day in the glad.
springtime, when all nature is smiling
and glad, she dies. The old family phy9
sician hesitates between duty and de-
sire to save the old family CHS last cruel
blow. Shall he tell lie in filling out
the death blank? Shall he say that she
died of blighted love or of hypcrmsthe-
STA? He thinks it all over carefully.
He knows the truth will be terrible
shock to the family, who are in soce-
ty and run yellow dog cart in the
park. Then duty conqucrs. He closes
his eyes. lie draws long breath.
His pen ialters, but he writes the fatal
words.