Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-13

of the candy dealers in that city
comes out of the tenement districts.
Watch the children of the pubic
school make rush for the candy
shop during the recess period. Their
pennies and nickels come over the
counters by the score. Notices too, how
a number of these thrifty dealers in
candies always try to get iaithe very
shadow of these school buildings. They
know the number of coins that sWill
be, theirs if they manage to get into
a good location where the sweets will
lure the children. The school lunch
may cut into their profits, but there is
no hope that it will finally break them
of the habit ..:... ..:..>. ~.
Chocolates are the most popular OF
all the vari-colored, multi-shaped
wares displayed in the windows of the
confectioner They are getting more
SO every year. The bonbon is going
back in the esteem of the. populace.
Marronglaces. cellars, weird Genes c
tions and CONNECTIONS. are holding their
own. ":.-
Undoubtedly the candy hibit is
spreading. Candy is. more extens .vely
advertised than ever before. Grown
folks never think of being ashamed of
their candy eating procliYities. In
dams down on the reservations eat
candy as ravenously as they jcnce ats
roast puppy, It is second, to water,
melon in the opinion of the Ethiopian
Hundreds and thousands, of tons are
eaten every day. The market varies
but little in the summer and sprine
months, but it gets a little better
along in the holiday season. when
everybody feels like he ought to buy
something and finally winds up by
purchasing some candy. s.
Lolli-pops for the penny trade
make up a great part of the candy
business in many localities, but it is
the box trade, the chocolate trade
that counts most in the grand total
Candy is shipped by the trainload
| but the American Miss eats more
candy than the maid of any Other
nation in the world. z. -.
Candy is one of the everyday lux
/ uries that keep the people poor. Il
is a drain that never ceases. Child
rem of all ranks in the social scale
| buy candies by the penny's worth OIL
the dollars worth Plain sugar, some
extract of the cocoa bean or some
! other fiavoring are fused together
and straightway this mixture becomes
thing that will coax money from
! the pockets of misers. '.~. =.
The candy factories buy sugar By
the trainload and employ help by the
thousand. Machines, however, now
Go much of the work that was once
done by the def fingers of the candy
/ dipper. The best candies are still
handmade. When you pay so. so o.
so cents pound for candies, you cal
gamble that you are getting the pure
/ handmade goods. -." .... -
There is not so much profit in the
! candy business, after all, for the com
petition between manufacturers i:
Keen, and the main thing in the trade
/ is TO keep the trainlOads of good!
! moving from the stewing pans of the
factory into the mouths of the con
| SumerS. -. .~.>~. ~. :. ~. ..".'.
Candy is pure enough these day.
/ to satisfy the most eXacting of tn,
poor-food reformers. This is especial
ly true of all the sweetstuffs that arr
/ shipped from one state to another
] The national statutes have made thi.
possible, but it took some time to con
vince the man who makes the candy
that the law meant just what it said