Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-12-28
Southern Candy Pull.
Come to the candy pull tonight
For southern beauties will be there.
With 'lasses candy In their hands
And garlandS In their hnlr.


And gariands in their hair.
This paraphrase of an old poem was on
the invitations sent out by a Sou herd
woman, whose home is up in the Nine
ties. The guests are members of the
Southern colony i'll New York.
The party was & revival of social
custom in the South before the War 10
It's renaissance in New York the young
women came wearing Bingham aprons
The hostess furnished the moiasSes.
which had been sent up especially for
this event from New Orleans.
After the necessary boiling down Of the
sweet, each guest and her beau took =
buttered plate ON which was laid a roll
OF the candy. 1t was the young WON
ans part TO get the roll into pulling con
dition.
This she did after the manner Of
kneadinS dough After this preparation
she took one end of the roll and passed
the other TO her young man. Then De-
gan the pull
When the roll was extended the ends
were put together by the two pullers
joining hands. This proc,ys left rope
+df the candy, the lower end Of which
was taken up by one of the pullers, and
they repeated the pull.
This was continued until the candy be-
came brittle. when it was placed on an
other plate. The plates were then put III
a cool place, and the young people pro-
ceeded TO the drawing room where they
INDUCED in the old play, known in the
South at all candy-pulls as king VIZ
liam"
The guests formed a circle, joining
hands One remained within the Gree.
This one, of course, was a young man.
As the guests reyoived around the center
they sang the old words sung by their
mothers and grandmothers and to the
same air:
King William was King James son
And from Il royal race he come.
Upon his breast he wore star
Which pointed TO the northwest far
Go choose your east, 60 choose your west
Go choose the one that you love best.
All the conclusion of the last line the
young man in the center made his choice.
As she stepped to the center of the cir
Gle the guests closed the gap and circling
around the twain they continued singing:
Down on this carpet you must kneel
Sure as the grass grows In the field,
Salute your bride with sweet kiss
And rise upon your feet in bliss.
At the tuneful injunction "Salute
your bride with a sweet kiss" there was
the usual scuffle and resistance, as there
always was in the olden times. Then the
twain in the center joined the circle and
the next young man stepped to the centec
and the programme was repeated until
tftie NpuAE man hHh thpGth tht Ht4'
that he loved best.
After this each young woman in the
circle stood in the center. by turn, and
the words Of the third line Of the last
stanza were changed TO Salute your
young man with a kiss.
After each couple had knelt and kissed,
the circle broke Each young man went
10 the cooling room for the plate of can
dy he had assisted in pulling and re-
turned with it to the drawing room. The
candy was then eaten, and the pull was
over.
1T no doubt seems rather simple sort
Of amusement" said the hostess, TO you
Northern people, but our mothers and
grandmothcrs INDUCED in it, and the
pleasure consists in doing what amused
Them"
Then the hostess related that many Of
the old-timc statesmen in the South mad,
in their time, played King William" at
candy pulings So far as the hostess
knew. this is the first old-fashioned candy
phil to take place in New York.-New
Nnpi- Gun