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
all the hurrying and nervous anxiety Of shoppers and
business men, and It is just as say and as gHttering
when the air is richly yellow with damp soft coal
smoke, when an the women's skirts are drabbIed 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 and sill
Yer, like a birthday cake or a paper-lace valentine,
and it has a cleaning marble floor and dazzling mir
rors plainly visible from the outside through the
broad, high windows. But al this pink and white,
these beveed glasses and lustrous 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
dlgnihed columns OF SHINING striped rimson-and-white
peppermint sticks, and sometimes chaste, snowy
mamma looked. but revealing to the taste the ethereal
sweetness of the ambrosia Of the ecstatic gods Inside,
much like that of the DesrI dissoIvad in Vine ana vy5iS5
arc probably bought only by people who choose their
pleasures rather from a degenerate aesthetic ambition
than from a healthy. natural taste.
Amid the mingled fragrances Of these condiments
and of nuts, raisins and sugared almonds move lightly
and gracefully numbers of extremely pretty shop girls.
and Of all these shop girls the very prettiest was Annie
O'Grady.
Annie oGrady had the sunniest smile. the deepest
dimples. the bluest eyes. the nuhfest brown hair. the
most fairy-like figure. the whitest apron and the pink
Her days she spent in smiIingly tying up boxes Of
CANDY, always hospitality handing out a piece 70 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
tacttuHy. guiding men, doubling over offerings to
young girls into the judicious path of mixed choco-
Her evenings and her holidays she spent in the
attendance Of butchers and grOcers' picnics at Og-
denis Grove, and of the Elks' and Foresters' and the
firemen's balls, masquerades and dancing parties. at
the numerous and pressing invitations of the hoppy
young miIkmeu, floor walkers and hremen honored with
her acquaintance and favor.
She lived with a married sister, to whom she gave
almost an her wages. and of whose crowded Irish fiat
she was me hbht ana JOY; and justly. for she was so
good that she used TO take numbers of her little nieces
and nephews with her when she went 10 walk in the
park with Mr. Murphy or Mr. Sullivan on Sundays
This, too. was not because she was a|pathetic to the
charms Of these gentlemen, for, indeed. Mr.. Murphy,
and even in the social circles Of the police, absorbed
most of her reflections.
Mr.. Murphy was a large, dark blue Irishman. with
very square shoulders and a very long waist. He had
quick. gay blue eyes, a small top for his head, an
enormous face and a long upper lip, covered with. a
ways to lead the grand march at the Elks' balls and
Ne often awarded the prizes for the wheelbarrow race,
the three-legged race and the fat mems race at the
picnics at Ogden's Grove. 1t was a grand sight to see
him swooping down a room I'm a two-step with a
high-stepping. prancing gait. holding his partners
hand lightly ard proudly between his finger and thumb
or cutting a pigeon wing after elegantly handing a
partner back in anemande left. Besides these ma
terial exterior advantages. he possessed the innate
spiritual charm Of good nature. He used to lunge at
and tickle the nieces and nephews when thew an
peared ready for a walk instead Of looking slightly
sullen and morose, as Mr.. Sullivan and Mr.. OBIara
sometimes did.
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 one of these occasions she told a certain
sympathetic lady among the customers that she had
a cousin-this seemed more delicate-who was a fire
man, and so. Of course, she was worried to death when
ever there was a fire.
This customer was an influential lady, a serene,
kind. rich person, regarded as almost Indispensable to
civilization by many women and girls She was able
TO persuade them to do almost anything. more. il
must be acknowledged by the dignity of her presence