The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-09-06

ON the most crowded part Of state street, Chicago.
is a beautiful candy store.
1t stands, gay and ~glittering, in the midst Of
eli the hurrying and nervous anxiety Of shoppers and
business men, and It is just as gay and as gitterfng
when the air is richly yellow with damp soft coal
smoke, when an the Women's skirts are drabbled and
when every one is either dragging despondently or
hurrying distractedly as it is when the walks look
wide and clean, when the air blows free and cool from
the lake, when the women have on white kid gloves
and every one seems to be taking "a pleasant prone
made.
1t is decorated with pink and white stucco AID sill
Yer, like "a birthday cake or a paper-lace valentine,
and it has a cleaning marble floor and dazzling E1ir-
Iors' plainly visible from the outside through the
broad, high windows. But all this pink and white,
these beveled glasses and l~ustrous floors are only the
shrine OF what lies IN long rows ON the showcases. This
is sometimes balls of rich. smooth, black chocolate;
sometimes twists of pale, creamy molasses; sometimes
dignined columns or SHINING striped crlmscn-and-White
peppermint sticks, and sometimes chaste, snowy
squares of opera caramels, looking doubtless much as
mamma looked. but revealing to the taste the ethereal
sweetness Of the ambrosia Of the ecstatic gods Inside.
pink, candied rose leaves. whose flavor is doubtless
much like that of the pearl dissolved in wine and which
pleasures rather from a degenerate aesthetic ambition
than from a healthy. natural taste.
Amid the mingled fragrances Of these condiments
end erscef1lIv numbers of extremeiv pretty shop girIs
and OF All these shop girls the very prettiest was Annie
Annie OGrady had the sunniest smile. the deepest
most fairy-liko figure the whitest apron and the pink
Her days she spent in smiIingly tying up boxes Of
candy, always Hospitality handing out a piece to the
customer before she closed the box: in tripping about
with a tray Of ice cream soda water, in allowing chill
dren to choose their purchases by tasting them and in
t~actfuly guiding men, doubling over offerings to
young girls into the judicious path Of mixed choco-
lates.
Her evenings and her holidays she spent in the
denis Grove, and Of the EIks' and Foresters' and the
fremen's balls. masquerades and dancing parties. at
the numerous and pressing invitations Of the hOppy
young milkmeu. floor walkers and hremen honOred with
her acquaintance and favor.
she iyed with a married sister. to whom she gave
almost an ir wages. and Of whose crowded Irish fiat
she was b. light and joy: and justly. for she was so
good that used to take numbers of her little neCes
and nepF 1with her when she went TO walk in the
park wi Murphy or MIR. Sullivan on sundays.
This las not because she was a%pathetc to the
charms Sc gentlemen. for. indeed. Mr.. Murphy.
who was MY popular among his brother hremen
and even in the social circles of the police, absorbed
Mr.. Murphy was a large. dark blue Irishman. with
very squar, shoulders and a very long waist. He had
quick. gay blue eyes, q small top for his head, an
Enormous face and a long upper lip. covered witt, a
deep black cataract OF mustEche. He used almost al
ne often avrarSed the prizes for the wbeeiparrow race.
the three-Iegged race and the fat mems race "a the
picnics at Ogdens Grove. 1t was a grand sight to see
him swooping down a room in a two-step with a
high-stepping. prancing gait, holding his partners
hand lightly and. proudly between his finger and thumb
or cutting a pigeon wing after elegantly handing a
terial exterior advantages. he possessed the innate
spiritual charm Of good nature. He used to lunge at
and tickle the nieCes and nephews when they ap-
peared ready for a walk instead Of looking slightly
sullen and morose, as Mr.. Sullivan and Mr.. OMara
Annie used to think with pleasure Of his arrival
whenever she had a new hat or a new collar; and she
felt an especial, even a proprietary, interest when she
heard the fire bells changing.
Indeed. on e of these occasions she told a certain
svmpathetic ~ among the customers that she had
a cousin-thit seemed more delicate-who was a fire
man. and so. { course, she was worried to death when
! This customer was an influential lady, a serene.
kind. rich person. regarded as almost Indispensable to
10 Ders7ade them to do almost anything. more. it
must be acknowledged by the dignity Of her presence