The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-11
ehi.ist-lIlas Candy.

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Christmas Candy.
child will read or hear
IL interest articles n oppo-
q that reform that does away
Christmas candy. and by actual
ton as rule the child
parent refuses 1t candy dur-
holidays IS driven to puniness.
inch care can be taken of chill
u times tor their own good.
fact. some 81 them are virtually
red for toAthe point Of making
n frafl. Medical science and the
youthful appetite what 1t Graves,
Int nevertheless the child that gets
nat It wants to not an extravaganza
Incorporate degree is usually
e most rugged and hearty.
Again boys will be boys and girls
III ne girls when there is candy in
elit Just as the parents were in
heir chldhood and all the modern
parental wisdom is not going to
ansfoF1n them into long-faced
ortais and through fear that "a
eet morsel will send them to
early graves. Besides, 1t is an old
that the good die young. and
there are few who want to be so
ood IS an that along about Christ
mas time, why not have the Chris
mas tree as usual. and what would
le the good Of one without candy.
hc Telegram optnes the children
~ Clarksburg as well as host of
older folk, whose fancy turns to
ndy sufficiently periodically and
unite frequently as to make them
lily OF cruhching a stick Of favor
Jed sweets, will not seriously protest
I ainst the opposition the Pittsburg
9azette-Ttmes makes to what terms
itself reform, when it decides to dis
panse with Christmas candy. The
Ptttsburg newspaper comments as
f6llows on the subject:
Another great reform wave is un-
der way, having started in Chester,
OF reform and the native heath of
TeEormers. The Sabbath school SUI
perintendsnts OF that county have
decided to abolish the Christmas
candy treat which has for more
years than any one can remember
been such powerful incentive to
Juvenile righteousness. Whether 4:
favored to them of corrupt practices
bribing souls. as one might say
or whether they simply thought It
q useless expense, they have de-
cfded to do away with it. The lads
ana fassies OF Chester who have a
hankering for sweets need not ex-
nect 10 satisfy it by memorizing gol-
den texts or faithful attendance at
ths Sunday school. The stern SUI
perintendents will not countenance
the distribution of saccharine in
ducements to swell the honor roll.
Nay. for Chester is city OF uncom-
promising virtue and believes that
virtue is its own reward.
ut is to he hoped that many other
Communities will not adopt this
cruel rigor No doubt there are
some mercenary boys whose sweet
tooth alone induces them to fire.
duent the haunts of holiness when
they might go. fishing or nutting.
But why should the good little boys
ana girls, who go to Sabbath school
because OF an Irresistible impulse,
8Bs therefore deprived OF the
sIigary reward that Santa Claus
brings them each year? To many
5oe the little ones who are not blest
with wealthy parents, this annual
treat is not only a CLEAN OF Christ
mas henevolence in form they can
hest understand. it is also almost
the only. revelation OF Christmas joy
ii their bleak and hard lives. The
chester superintendents evidently
DO not believe in the doctrine that