The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-12
ALCOHOL IN CONFECTIONERY.
Candles which Contain Good-sixeo
Drink of whiskey Now on Sale.

Drink of Whiskey Now on sale.
From the New York World.
The very latest phase of social wick
edness is the bonbon with a little Jag
concealed beneath the sugary exterior.
You cam get drunk on candy. WIN
your chocolate creams and gum drops
you can buy whisky or brandy ana
/ from a box OF sweets you can imoloe
enough spiritus frumenu to make you
merry and give you q. head next morn
ing. As the innocent-loohlng conIec,
tbon dissolves on your tongue nquio
trickles out that has the unmistakabie
flavor of the good old stuff. That 8
whiskey," you say. WhiSkey IL is, anu
as 1t mikes with the sugar coating tnas
has held At a prisoner the combination
is agreeable to the taste. The steady
/ drinking man who rs not on good terms
with the bartender ON the corner mas
in these wfhiskeyized candles the next
best method of getting around the
Roosevelt restrictions. He gives the
wink to his druggist, receives little
box and goes home equipped against
/ dry Sunday. The confectionery stores
are reaping a rich harvest. Alunousn
they have no license to sell liquor, sney
| do not fear any trouble from what, at
4 first Glance, may seem to be a. harmless
| dnfrsaction of the law. But as young
girls and boys ais we'll as grown men
\ and women are buying the drops, the
excise board will have every excuse for
interference as soon as they have READ
this article.
A Sunday World reporter bought rye
whdskey bonbpns at two places In
Broadway last Sunday, and at one
place in Columbus avenue, near 12nd
street. He also bought brandy in bon
/ bons at two places. In two pounds on
| this mixture of whilskey and candy was
enough Intoxicating liquor to produce
a decided feeling"
The chocolates put up with whiskey
In them were not put ON sale In tnis
city until two weeks ago. Since then
the demand for the article has been
great. Brandy drops were made years
ago on a small table, but not until the
screws were put on Sunday drinking
did the whisl0ey drop make its appear
ance. The whiskey drop Is not DIFFER
/ emit On appearance from the old-time
chocolate or brandy drop. and is about
the same size. At some of the shops
/ ri is covered with plain chocolate, while
/ ait the more stylish places lit is wrapped
/ i'm tin foIl. In some of its forms Ut Is
composed OF little jug made of c1'ys-
/ talbzed sugar into which the liquor IS
squlrted with a syringe. Then the small
opening Is plugged with sugar ana
dipped in boiling chocolate and laid out
ON boards TO dry. The foil lbs put on 20
/ hold the compound together In case II
dis exposed to a damp atmosphere.
People who have not bought whiskey
drops and who have no idea of the
amount of the juice of tine rye contain
ed in them win be surprised by the fol-
lowing figures, derived from an analy-
sis:
In a pound OF chocolate drops there
are so pieces. Dach piece weighs 80
grains, troy weight. After drop Is
broken and the whiskey lis poured out
there are found IS grains of sugar and
chocolate and 40 grains of whdskey.
Counting so drops to the pound, there
are 5000 grains of whhskey in each
pound box of the new mixture. A half
pint of good rye whiskey weighs $3.50
grains Thus i'm each pound OF choco-
late whiskey drops there is a half-pint
of whislcey. less So grains. Bantenders
say the average New Yorker does not
pour out more than on'e-sixth of a half
pint for a drink. According TO this
there are abOt six average drinks OF
whiiskey I'm every pound of the new
canday.
There is a gallon of wlnfsl1ey. accord
ing to the statement of a. manufacture
er. In every 16Ik pounds of his candy.
The price of the candy, OF course. de-
ponds upon the quality of the brandy
Some pound boxes cost 30 cents, others
cost 60 cents. Diluted opium is mixed
w1uh chocolate drops in China, and in
New Orleans a factory has been MAX
years. The salesgirl In one of Broad
ways largest candy stores said:
1--WE have been selling wink drops,
ais we can them. for the past two weeks
and the sale IS growing every day.
suppose that we sell at least Is pounds
here a day. You have no idea how
many young fellows, schoolboys. be-
tween 10 and Is years, buy them. They
cannot buy liquor 50 they buy whiskey
drops and think they are real sporty
Grown men purchase them, too, or
Sunday especially, and say, you would
die laughing to see how embarrassed
some of them are when they come in
They don't know exactly how to ash
for them, and / suppose feel "a BIZ
ashamed of buying candy for the liquor
there Is dn them.
I'VE put up two classes of 'winks.
bramdies and WHISTLES. 1t Us hard work
for anyone not DIN The business TO tel
them apart. In fact. I'm their innocenc'
hes their charm. A number of our wo-
men customers. and we have any mum
her of them, have discovered the cas-
where tine drops are kept, and instead
of saying that they want whiskey Of
brandy drops. they merely point to th'
tray and say, A pound of those
please To the unin1tt1ated they appeal
TO be purchasing ordinary chocolate
creams.
I'VE have been selling brandy dropl
for years without being bothered By
the law. and 1t was only 10 meet a sud
den demand that whfiskey was used
The idea of person getting intoxi
o,lted on brandy or whislSey drops ma,
s1bnd funny, but there was a girl VIII
. formerly worked here that ate them &
such an extent that she used to ge
sleepy i'm the middle of the day. Sh'
lost her place on account of her devo
ton to the wink drops"
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