The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-17
the AMERICAN SWEET TOOTH
THE PEOPLE OF UNITED STATES EAT OVER ONE MILLION TONS
OF CANDY EVERY YEAR,

iork's candy experts claim that one
the money that goes into the
tiils ot the candy dealers in that cit,
ONE out OF tlae tenement districts.
watch the children Of the public
school make a rus;, for the candy shor
curing the recess period. Their pen.
mes II nfckels come Owe the coun.
.crs DN the score. Notice. too. how a
NUMBER OF these thrifty dealers in
candies always try to get in the very
shadow OF these school buildings
they know the number of coins thu.
wlil be theirs IL they manag TO uet
n a good location where the sweets
VIII lure the children. The school
!unch MAY cut into their profits, bu,
mere rs no hope hat 1t will finally
break them of the habit.
Chocolates are the most popular of
an inc varicolorcd. mu,ti-shapcd wares
alSplaEed in the windows of The con-
lectioner. They arc getting moro w
every year. The bonbon is going bact
IN inc esteem OF the populace. Mar
ron siaccs eclairs. weird connections
"hn corrections are holding their own,
spreading. Candy is more cxtensivoi,
advertised than ever before. Grown
ioiks never think of being ashamed
or their candy eating procliyities
lholahs down on the reservations ent
cahdS as ravenOusly as they once at,
roast puppy. 1t is second TO water
melon In the opinion Of the Ethiopian,
a and thousands of tons
ait en.eh every daN. The market va
ri"s nut little in the umn and
spring months. hus it gets a little bet
Ter ATOMS in the holiday season, when
everybody feels like he ought to buy
solhcthlng. and finally winds up by
purchasing some CANDY.
i-ol'lpops for the penny trade ma kc
up IA great part of the candy business
IN many localities. but it is the box
trade. the chocolate trade that cunts
most in the grand total, Candv Is
shipped by the train load and the shin
lo"d. Dnt the American miss eats more
CANDY than the maid of any other ma
ton in the world.
candy is n of the every dav lux
lrles that keep the people poor. II
Is IL arain that never ceases. Children
Oh an ranks in the social scale buy
eandle by the pennN's worth or the
uolIar 8 worth. Plain sugar, some ex-
tract of the cocoa bean or some other
i!aVoring. are fused together and
stralghtWaN this mixture becomes "A
lhlng that will coaX money from the
pockets of misers.
Tho candy factories buy sugar liz
the train load and employ nclp by the
thousands. Machines. however. now
do much of the work tina was once
done by the deft fingers or the CANDY
dippers. The best candies are still,
hand made. When YOU pay 80, 60 or
40 cents a pound for candies YOU can
gamblc that YOU arc getting the pure
hand made goods.
Ihere is not so much profit in the
candy business after all. for the COM
petltlon manufacturers is
keen. and the main thing in the trade
is to keep the train loads of goods
moving from the stewing pans of the
factory into the mouths OF the con-
sunlers
Candy is pure enough these DAYS to
satisfy the o cxacting of the pure
1000 reformers. This is especially
true Of all the sweet stufts that are
shiEed from n state to another. The
national statutes have made this pos
s,ble. but 1t took some time to con
vince the mar who makes the candy
mat the law meant lust what it said.
There was weeping and wailine and
shashlng of teeth among the candy
manufacturers when the government
insisted that aniline dyes and sulph,,r
were not nice materials for the maxi
ing of candies. They finally fell into
Inc. however. and there is no trouble
now. The local health boards watch
the candy that is sold on the premises
where it is made. and feel safe I'm al
lowing the national authorities to look
alter the interstate shipments.