The Somerset reporter., 1897-12-16
For the Reporter.
Candy Eating Hygienically
Considered

Occasionally an article gets started in
the columns of the newspapers and goes
the round OF the press, the burdens of
which consists Of labored arguments to
prove that the consumption Of confec
tionery, which has grown To such I'm.
mense proportions in this country, nee
essarily leads To grave dangers and will
in the end, wreck the health of those
who persist in its use. 1t should not be
necessary to say, however, that these
creeds emanate from those outside of the
medical profession, for every well in
formed physician is aware of the fact.
that candy, on account of the very ma
ture of its constitutional elements is one
of the most wholesome articles one could
eat. The chief ingredients of all pure
candy being sugar, one might as well
forbid the use Of that necessary article
as to forbid candy eating. aud as the
value of sugar from a physiological
standpoint must be conceded, it natu-
rally follows that pure candy is equally
beneficial to health.
The sole consideration is to assure
ones self that all candies entering the
household have been manufactured by a
house of established reputation, for the
product of the unskilled and the unseru-
pulous is frequently made from inferior
materials, and colored with dangerous
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thermore, the process of manufacture.
and the cleanliness of the surroundings
have much to do with the wholesome
ness of theIproduct and in these important
features the small candy making con
Germs aud many of the larger ones are
not as careful as a regard for good health
would suggest,
A person hot long since wrote to a
well-known physician of Skowhegau,
asking where absolutely pure eonfec-
tiOnery might be obtained. He referred
him at once to the Well-knoWn house of
f. *. Delano, whose candies from the
most expensive grades down TO the very
cheapest varieties are composed of the
very best ingredients obta1nable. and
are manufactured under such hygienic
conditions that their innate purity, and
consequently their healthfuluess is as
Sured beyond all question.
Pure sugar, the best of fruit syrups,
wholesome essences and wholly innocent
coloring being utilized in its composition,
whilst utmost cleanliness and scrupulous
care are exercised in every detail and
process of its manufacture. il is but rea-
sonable to suppose that the candy made
| by +. X, DelanO should, in every way,
meet the requirements of the physician
aud hygienst who insists that every
thing entering into the human c0nsump-
| ton must possess purity, unquestoned
and unassailahle.
The time to eat candy is whenever one
Graves it, morning, noon, or night.
| Good candy is always good. Let the
children have ii when they will, for it
strengthens the system and enriches the
| blood. There is more real nutriment
and genuine strength in one pound of
pure candy than in ten pounds of the
best beef, The dynamic force in -four
ounces of sugar will sustain the body for
| twenty four hours. Candy being SO
largely saccharine is an ideal food and
can not cause injury to the system, but
it is imperative that the proper iugrc-
dents enter into its composition and
that master skill eharacteriz, its pro
duction
Those Who use Delanu's pure candies
or who introduce them into their house
| hold need have no uncasiuess regarding
the Wholesomeuess Of candy eating
| Better or more hcalthful goods are not
obtaiuabIc anywhere.