Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-07-13
Another decade elapsed and the


value. People were getting prosperous
and the candy shop and the push cart
were just beginning to reap the
harvest that was to be theirs. They
were not overparticular as to what
they put into the candies in those
days, using among other things sew
eral tons Of white earth or terra alba,
a little sugar and some strong color.
ing matter In the manufacture Of that
delight of the, urchin, "barber-pole
stick" But candy was candy even in
those days, and In spite of the taste
less earth used in the poorer kinds,
the business began to grow by leaps
and bounds. In 1880 the candy talua-
ton was placed at $3S.714,77O.
Fifteen years later the business had
become gigantic thing and the latest
crop of boarding-school damsels were
burning the midnight oil and cleo
tricity In the laudable ambition to Gre
ate new and more delicious kinds Of
candies. This was just about the
time Of the beginning OF the great
candy craze, that has never been
checked since 1t started to sweep over
the country. For a time 1t was most
demoralizing Track teams and foot
ball squads all over the country we're
utterly ruined when 1t invaded the
co-education colleges. The fair stu
dents lured the athletes from their
dormitories, fed them the insidious
fudge and the demoralizing chocolate
cream until they became stale, slow
and sluggish. Many men acquired the
habit in the beginning of the craze
and have never freed themselves from
1t, In 1905 the candymakers of the
United States were selling nearly $780,
100000 worth of confectionery every
year. The rise In the volume Of bust
ness has been steady since the first
figures were obtained.
So far, we are not exporting cam
dies to any great extent. 1t is keep
ing US busy to provide the filing for
the American sweet tooth. We are
importing some of the richer com
pounds Of Europe. but as a rule the
continentals have not the sort Of
goods we desire in that line. Their
flavors are little too elusive to suit
the rather catholic taste Of the Amer
lean candy fiend. Some change has
come over the situation since so many
women and young girls became wage
earners. There are hundreds of
women who lunch daily OF a few
pieces of candy. It is cheap and
nourishing and all that. but some way
1t fails to do the complexion any
good. In few months the diet Of
candy, hot chocolate or coffee begins
to do queer things to the natural col
oring. II the diet is persisted in a
long vacation is sure to be necessary
some time within the near future.
$125,ooo.o 900 for Candy.
Three years ago the millions we
pay for candy annually had risen
around and over the century mark.
When the reports were tailed up 1t
was found that the land OF pork, beef
and western wheat had eaten some
thing over s1O1, 100000 worth Of heav-
emily hash. penoche, cream caramels
and a thousand other dreams Of the
confectioner and the boarding-hous
maiden. That was in 1907, only three
years ago. The returns for 1909 are
not completed as yet. But 1t is GER
tain that Uncle Sans candy bill will
amount to more than $125,000, 900 for
that year. ~
1t takes an army as big as mod
erni military division to turn out the
sticks. cubes, drops and lozenges OF
sugar and fruit juices that disappear
down the throat Of the American girl
every day in the year. Her daily al
ilowance of sweets would sink ferry
boat. There are over 10000 confec-
toners shops in the United States,
and no one knows how many shops
where candy is carried as part of
the stock. A very large part of the
yearly sugar production of the world
Is turned over to the candymakers.
The human body is SO constituted
that 1t demands large amount Of
carbons in childhood. The hunger for
sweet things is almost overpowering
in the growing child. Candy can be
eaten at any and every hour of the
day. and 1t does not seem to pail upon
the appetite. But there is limit to
digestive powers, and the crude sugars
that are often used by the confection-
er are not always easy for the child
ish stomach to assimilate. Hence
there are times when the doctors
services are in demand Unlike a per-
son of greater age, such an experience
does not give the youngster distaste
for candies. Even when there is a
distaste created, it does not last. long.
The body still continues to cry out for
carbons and the appetite returns.
Has It's Bad Side.
1t is In the growing age that the
lad and the lassie are apt to be caught
raiding the pantry in search of the
sugar jar OF. the jam pot. But the alb.
normal appetite Of the average Amer.
liican woman for candies is an un.
natural one. It leads to the building
up of fatty tissue, SO fatal to modern
ideas OF beauty. Sugar is fattening
to the last degree. and the plantation
! hands on the southern sugar planta
lions always get plump and fat when
| the sugar mills start up at the end OF
the season. In Turkey the ladies OF
| the harem are fed upon honey and
candied fruits in order that they may
become plump and exceedingly lovely
in the eyes of the Musselman beauty
lover.
Despite the fact that candy is fat
tening and that fat is the most dread
ed thing in the modern social world
womenkind persist IN eating all man
ner Of sugary things. The appetites
| OF their childhood heightened by a
sort of nervousness keeps them nib
bling and munching at the contents
! of the bonbon box. Piles and piles OF
delicious looking Judges, chocolates
and taffies are stacked in the win
dows Of the confectioners for the al
lurement of weak women