The Lamar register., 1898-11-09
THE CANDY T'AsIERs.
CONE IN AND SAMPLE EVERY
cONFECTTON.
Men Are bad As the womsn--rhsy
Have Free-Lunch Counters Galore bat
Their weakness. Crops out at shs Ts.
and Coffee stores-

quired what tasters might be. Well"
he reflected, there are some folks that
have to taste everything before buy
ing. and those folks revel in candy
store more than 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 center rush for any uncovered
eonfection in sight They taste and
order, taste and order. Well" with
a sweep of his hand, you women are
responsible for those -ory glass cases
- Just then pretty girl came in
with swish of fresh skirts and hazy
brown over her peach-blow cheeks.
She ordered 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 get a haif-pound
box on the scale. then began picking
out chocolates and marshcnallow out
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
1t, but she never seemed to quite COM
plete the layer. II was growing in
teresting, as the farce was kept up for
some time. The unsuspecting clerk
could not strike a balance She looked
beseechingly at the proprietor. who
gave her sign. The box still laeked
a layer of being full. but the ire.s clerk
chucked the lid on, the tas.e- passed
over her coin and had not enough
nerve left to enter a complaint At
another confectioner's, where they do
not cover the sweets pretty girl sal
lied in with her young man. Both were
well dressed. respectable-looking cjti-
zens. The young man ordered one
pound box, the faster dictating-"and
this" taking one. "and this, ard this
each time tossing from one to two
dainties in her mouth. She hovered
lovingly. greedily over each until pre-
sumably the pound was weighed. She
gurgled and tasted as the dainty wrap
per was put about the dainty box and
then clasped 1t to her heart: as she
passed out she jauntily boasted, "I
got ahead of that firm by half-pound."
"Eh, Eh," said the pretty clerk
squirting her eye knowingly: mo. she
didn't. When they have such hearty
appetite | always weigh them short.
These tasters consume pounds day,
and we know the ones who come with
a scent limit and two-pound appetite,
and we lay for them with short
weight" But. while some appetites
fer something more healthful and re-
freshing. A simple display of any
thing to eat invariably keeps as big
crowd as a merry-go-round at
country fair. The tasting public all
have strong digestive organs and will
ingiy put layer of five pickles upon
a sample of breakfast wheat and
cream The grocer will tell you it does
not take demonstration" to call out
the tasters. One merchant, who makes
a speciality of small cakes and crack
ers, says he loses pounds 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 wom-
an wabbles by, thrusts her nose sus-
piciously 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 day they ta5te, but that there
is heap more money in prints"
than in tub butter. A far-sighted mer-
chant. who carries big stock of fruit
with his other wares, had a basket
of misunderstanding grapes set in a con-
spicuous place, with noisy card upon
1t ITO Taste, Try One" When asked
what that meant he said that in the
arrangement of his market 1T 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
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