Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-11-17
THE CANDY TASTERS.
COME IN AND SAMPLE EVERY
CONNECTION.
Men Are as BAD as the Wemen-They
Hare ~ree-Lunc Counters Galore but
Their wesksess Crops Out NJ the Tea
and Coffee Stores. d

| reporter OF the Washington Post in
CURED what tasters might be. We'll"
be reflected, there are some folks that
have to taste everything before buy
ing. and those folks revel in a candy
store more thar any place else. The
business died down from June to fall,
but they are back again now. Why.
the minute they enter this store they
make a center rush fer any uncovered
CONNECTION in sight. They taste and
order, taste and order. Well" with
q sweep of his hand, you women are
responsible for those very glass cases
- Just then a pretty girl came In
with a swish of fresh skirts and hazy
brown oye her peach-blow cheeks.
She ordered a half-pound Of the best.
The man who invented the glass case
and wire screen did not get the best
of that girl. The candy girl clerk
behind the counter set a half-pound
box on the scale, then began picking
out chocolates and marshmallow cut
from under the glass case and rang
Ing them in the box. The purchaser
began picking them out of the box
and ranging them between her teeth.
One more layer should have balanced
II, but she never seemed to quite COM
plete the layer. 1t was growing IN
teresting, as the farce was kept UP for
some time. The unsuspecting clerk
could not strike a balance. She looked
b~eseechingly at the proprietor, who
gave her a sign. The box still lacked
a layer of being full, but the irate clerk
chucked the lid on, the faster passed
over her coin and had not enough
nerve left to enter q complaint. At
another confectioner's, where they do
not cover The sweets, a pretty girl sal
lied in with her young a Both were
we'll dressed, respectable-looking citi-
Tens. The young man ordered a n
pound box, the faster dictating-"and
this" taking one, "and this, and this"
each time tossing from one TO two
dainties in her mouth. She lowered
lovingly, greedily over each until pre-
sumably the pound vas weighed. She
gurgled and tasted as the dainty wrap
per was put about the dainty box and
then clasped Il to her heart; as che
passed out she jauntily boosted, 81
got ahead OF that firm by a half-pound."
"Eh! En-" said the pretty clerk,
squirting her eye knowingly; mo, she
didn't. When they have such hearty
appetite l always weigh them short.
These tasters consume pounds a day,
and we know the ones who come with
q scent limit and two-pound appetite,
and we lay for them with short
weight" But, while some appetites
run to CONNECTIONS, other tasters pre-
fer something more healthful and re-
freshing. A simple display Of any
thing to eat invariably keeps as big
a crowd as a merry-go-round at q
country fair. The tasting public all
have strong digestive organs and will
ingly put a layer of five pickles upon
. sample Of breakfast wheat and
cream. The grocer will tell you Il does
not take a demonstration" to call out
the tasters. One merchant, who makes
q speciality of small cakes and crack
ers. says he loses pounds u day OF this
light ~provender. However, they be-
come still more sordid In appetite and
this faster leaves dainties and turns
to tub butter" A huge paddle stands
upright In the tub and one fat WON
an wabbles by, thrusts her nose sus-
p~iciously near, and then takes a taste,
only to be followed by another whose
throttle needs oiling In the same way,
and she doesn't especially object to
the remainder OF the taste that the
FIRST fat lady left sticking to the paddle.
The clerk doesn't know how many
pounds a day they taste, but that there
Is q heap more money In prints
than In tub butter. A far-sighted mer-
chant, who carries a big stock OF fruit
with his other wares, had a basket
OF misunderstanding grapes set In a con-
spicuous place. with a noisy card upon
1t ITO Taste, Try One" When asked
what that meant he said that In the
arrangement of his market it was his
habit to make an enticing display by
opening a number of baskets OF grapes
As customers and passers-by in general
came and went they invariably took
from one grape to a bunch and when
bona-fide purchasers came they as in
variably chose an unbroken basket. A
bakers stand came next and he. too.
suffered from the cake mania. Just
then a matron came by with an army
Of children and an appetite for rye
bread and other ~substantials. AS the
clerk disposed Of her purchases In
paper bags she helped each OF her off,
spring to a cake OF the kind that best
suited Its fancy. At 10 cents a dozen.
the baker reckoned that on Saturdays
when the tasters were out in full force.
he lost about 50 70 or 50 worth of cakes.
There is comfort in some lines of
business, however. for the rudy feb
man across the way wondered what
all this talk was aLcnt and after find
Ing out wabbled of. calculating, well.
I'm mighty glad none Of these tasters
take to raw fish. but there's no telling
when they will" But women are not
the only tasters. The sterner sex have
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