The morning call., 1893-03-19
QUEER DISLIkES.
Men Who Have Soured on
Their Wares.
THE RULE OF coNTRARIEs.
A Fruit-DeaIer Who Hates Oranges
and the Tobacconist Who Never
Uses the Weed.

The next day Tommy became acquainted
with the confectioneT's little girl around
the corner.
''Oh, it must be awful nice to live In a
candy-store," says Tommy to Marguerite.
Does you fink so?" says Marguerite. II
don't; hate it. 1 want papa to live out in
the country and have lots OF horses and
cows. like Uncle William"
'But zen you won't get no candy. Now
you have all the candy you want Gimme
some?"
Pooh. who cares for candyI 'Taint half
as good as cake or pie. don't want no
candy"
This sort of pessism staggers Tommy's
youthful logic. He likes horses as well as
most boys, but candy-welI. it's way beyond
him, this thing of Marguerite not caring
for candy, and having so much of it right
at home. too.
If his father kept candy-store 1t would
be different, be fondly imagines.
But really it wouldn't. Surrounded on
every hand by the sweet things he most
cOvets now his sweet tooth would soon be
satiated. He would soon have enough of
candy. and his thoughts and desires would
turn TO something which he lacked.
1t is so with men. 1t is the way of the
VI luY tIb hOliQ uhtI. DOClOlS take llle
or no medicine, certainly none of their own
prescription. for the FIRST thing physician
does when he falls i'll is to send for brother
physician.
Fish-dealers prefer meat to their own
wares for dinner. frultmen eat but lit lie
fruit, and liquor-dealers are often the most
temperate of men.
Yet it is seldom that ones calling gives
one positive dislike for the wares he sells.
Even the confectiOner can MUNICH a little
candy once In while with relish, and the
| butcher is seldom or never a vegetarian.
But here are some cases rightto the point.
What do you think of a fruit-dealer who
| can't abide the taste of an orange, and who
is made sick by the flavor of bananas?
D. f. Allison of Allison, Gray & Co.,
| wholesale fruit-dealers, Is such a man.
| Tropical fruit is an abomination unto his
palate, though from the profits of buying
and selling tropi al fruits comes the larger
| part OF the income derived from his business.
Oranges give me the headache" he said
| to HE CALL man yesterday, that is when
| | take them internally, which | seldom do.
l have several times taken piece in my
mouth. and once or twice. / believe. swal-
| lowed a little Of the juice that to other PEG
| pie is so delicious,
But every time l have done this It has
made me sick. Tropical fruit gives me in
| digestion, which results usually in severe
! headache.
Now know this is not the fault of the
! fruit, for any physician will tell you that
| plenty of good ripe fruit is the best medi-
| cine any one can take
ut would never do for me, though.
| There's some peculiarly about my system
which makes tropical fruit not only obnox-
| ious to the taste, but to my stomach as
| we'll"
Il take a good deal of pleasure in recon-
| meHding the fruit to NY patrons, but
could never demonstrate its good results on
| myself"
Here is another man who demonstrates
| the cOntrariness of human nature. He
! deals in coffee and ia one of the best judges
| Of coffee in the city. Daily he tastes and
/ tests large quantities of coffee, and for
many years has tasted a good deal Of it for
/ the Government commissaries out here.
| But lie never drinks 10.
This is Reuben W. Hills Of Hills Bros,
| coffee and spice dealers and importers.
! Il never dunk Coffee" says Mr. Hills.
| "N hen | taste it ! am very careful not TO
! swallow it. There are two reasons for that,
/ of course. The most imrortant is that if
were to swallow all the coffee put into my
| mouth, or even a small part of it, would
soon have to stop tasting il altogether. Ii
| would make me sick to take SO much and
| take 1t so continually.
AT home 1 drink cocoa or tea or choc-
| olate, OF anything in fact, so long as it is
| not coffee.
Il am considered judge of coffee and
| have lot of eXperting to do, but what |
| taste never gets farther than my mouth.
| And even at that. when | have a good deal
! of ii to DO in day, l will feel the effects of
| 1t 1t makes me nervous Just To taste so
/ much Of il and inhale lis aroma all the time
/ Yes, you're quite right in putting me down
| as coffee dealer who don't drink coffee
| like a doctor who won't take his own
| medicine, eb?"
And here's druggist who never takes
| drugs. II may be because he's too healthy
| TO need them, or 1t may be, as he says, that
| the continual lnhaling of them obvlates the
necessity of taking them. 1t may be, again,
| that close and constant familiarity with his
| drugs has given him distaste for them, or
| it may be-but the fact is he don't take
| them. That's enough.
He keeps drug store. Emory Gates is
| his name. lie is young man, a graduate
| OF pharmacy aud thoroughly awake to the
| vast Importance CT the wares he sells to all
| the rest of mankind but himself. He goes
with out drugs.
And a cigar dealer who never smokes.
There is such man, Z. w. Briggs He Is
one of tine best tobacco experts in the State,
and has been for years a retailer of cigars
| and tobacco.
He never smokes.
Mr.. Briggs is not prejudlced against to-
| bacco in any form or shape and he only
| draws the line when it comes to selling
| cigarettes to boys
he likes the effluvia from good cigar,
| likes the business oG dealing in them and
DtluS dAlOIlB tHeul, likes 10 serve them out
| TO you at 50 much per serve.
But he never smokes.
| That is not all.
Here is an oyster-dealer who likes oysters
| about as well as children like castor oil
Frederick G. Immel Is his mama Tie
makes specially of oysters and has been
an expert and a successful oyster-dealer
and oyster caterer for years.
But you couldn't induce him to eat one of
his own bivalves.
10 ngn mo In Cd, . ~ an
mouth water. His drypans are the pride
and joy OF his patrons. When it comes to
fries he Is there with both feet" as the
street urchin puts 1t. He knows how to
take care OF oysters and keep them fresh,
SO that when they are served on the half
she'll there Is the minimum of thlckening in
the Succulent juice.
But in none Of these forms, nor in any
other possible or probable form, can Mr.
immel be induced to eat an oyster. lie
don't like them. It's worse than that. He
utterly dislIkes them.
Thomas =. Mannery is a fish-dealer who
never eats hsh-not even on Friday.
- don't like fish," saws Mr.. Mannery,
Il never did like It, and / never will. | get
| Inc smell OF II so much. | suppose that's the
reason. I've been in the fish business since
was boy. and | can never remember the
time when ate piece of fish with relish.
Il don't object to the odor of fish, like a
good many people who ca: fish do, but the
animal never agreed with me, somehow or
other. L ike oysters and clans, and even
crabs, but fish L cannot go. Eve tried TO
like it, but there's no use. 1t won't 90
down. Fish is good food. Doctors say it
makes brain tissue, but brain or no brain
hsh has got TO stay out OF my bill of fare.
We have 1t at home often. My wife eats
II once or twice week, and so do the chill
drenn, but they put meat Oh the table for
There IS even a man who deals very
largely In wine. but who never drinks any
of it himself. lie takes a glass of beer
when lie wants 1t or even a stronger drink,
but never wine, though wine he has the
most of and knows the most about.
lie Is Charles PechiD. who is now the
proprietor of well stocked wine vaults.
good many men WHO drink great deal of
brandy or whisky do not care for wine or
any OF the lighter drinks, but this is OF the
case with Mr.. Pechin.
he simply dislikes wines of all kinds and