The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-01-13
THE GREAT. DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANcE

IN w Elcn ls bound up q MOsI Ne1nark-
able Temperance Lesson-The Young
Man who Graves Sweets is No DrinkeI
The news stands in railroad stations and
| ferry houses sell among other things indi
vidual pieces of candy-at one or two
| cents each.
There are huge chocolate drops, as big as
| the end Of your thumb, other large drops,
filed with sweet, thick cream, and so on.
In the evenings it is very interesting tc
watch those who buy these candies. There
are very many young boys among the buy.
ers. But there are also a great many
! young men. They rush up, buy their even.
! ing newspaper, and take in addition two OF
three pieces of candy to be eaten on the
way home.
This spectacle of young men-clerks and
working men-eating candy is new and
| pleasant.
The man who Graves sweet things is al
most always a man who uses little or no
| alcohol.
The man Who suddenly gives up the
drinking habit feels a strong desire for
sugar, for sweet things of all kinds.
And for the same reason the young men
whom you see buying candy as they rush
| homeward at night are young men Of tenn.
| perate habits
Temperance is virtue that gains ground
daily all over this country. The candy
eating habit should be welcomed as one of
the temperate signs.
There is, by the way, hint for young
women and for mothers in this question of
eating candy.
If a young man brings you box of candy
and sheepishly eats about half of it before
you can eat six pieces, he is young man
most promising. You may be quite sure
that he is not cocktail young man, or one
| of the young men who think "a little
whisky is good for the system" Candy
and whisky rarely meet in young mems in
| teriors.
On the other hand, there is something
queer about the young man who shows
| plainly that he cares nothing for candy.
He may be an exception or he may be a
poor goose hiding his real longings because
| he thinks it unmanly to want sweet things.
But usually he is the sort of young person
that girl can well do without.
One other word on the candy question
| which may not come up here again for
years. Remember, fathers and mothers,
| that your chld's desire for candy is per-
| fectly natural and should be.grati6ed.
There is no more wholesome food than
pure sugar. The candy which comes near.
est to being pure sugar, with little harm.
less favoring, is an excellent thing Tor
| children.
The craving for candy is as natural in a
| child as the craving for salt among US ALL
You know that no man or other mammal
can do without salt The old monks, tor.
| menting their bodies for the sake Of their
souls, imposed many privations upon, them
! selves. But no one ever succeeded IN
/ -'oing without salt. In Africa, where salt
is SO scarce in some places, the children
| gathered around white explorers and licked
| pieces of rock salt, chewing and swallow.
| ing it, as our children do with candy.
A father who wants to Please his chill.
dren without hurting them can not do bet.
ter than take home to them occasionally a
pound of plain molasses candy. That is
the very best kind. There are other pain
candies about as good. And the child that
has such candy often-in moderation is all
the better for it. .
Candy disagrees with grown people and
with children sometimes.
But if the diet is otherwise sensible, and
| if there is a craving for candy, it never
disagrees with those who eat it.
1t is an absolutely. natural food 1t does
harm only when added to an already over
worked stomach. The danger about it re:
| sides in this fact: it tempts the palate and
overruies good judgment. Do not let your
children fill their stomachs with other
things first. and then hurt themselves by
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Let them have the candy first-at the
/ beginning of the meal. If it be pure, do
not hesitate to let them have good deal
of, it-say, an eighth. or, for big children,
sixth of a pound. Then let them eat the
| other things.
A man very well known in New York:
Richard Croker, in fact. said to friend
that he could not so much as taste candy,
on account of dyspepsia But he was told
that if he would take simply milk and
candy he could eat and digest al the candy
he wanted to. And to his surprise he
found tnat it was so.
A diet of milk-swallowed slowly in
small SIPS. and of absolutely pure candy
r',l cure dyspepsia and improve the COM
plexion. if kept up for four or six weeks. ,
We wish that the big stores that COM
bine great sales with cheap prices would
make speciality of pure and cheap mo-
lasses candy. made fresh daily. They
should be abe to sell it at profit for
twice or three times the price of sugar by
the barrel. They would render a genuine
service to childhood and to Parents if
they would make a feature of this.
Let them nut the fresh molasses candy
for the children feature in all their ad-
vertisements. They will make thousands
Of little friends and big ones. too. They
might even, occasionally, as a Santa C.aus
surprise send home quarter pound san,-
PIE of the candy free, with the mothers
purchase, wrapped up in a statement
somewhat on the lines of this editorial
From an Editorial in the New York Even
ing Journal.