Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-13
EATING OF CANDY
GROWS BY BOUNDS
Americans, Mostly Women.
Last Year Ate Over One
Million Tons of Sweets

Think of it! Miss America ate l.,
100000 tons of candy last year. She
will eat as much or more this year.
Next year she may beat ali previous
records. She is the real, original and
only Handy Kid says an exchange.
Just now she is eating more than
she ever ate before. For Christmas
is coming and the candy-eating record
must fall. The female of the spe-
.cies" eats the candy. She keeps the
rest of the country busy raising the
money wherewith to purchase more
sweet stuff.
1t costs every man, woman and
child in the United States just about
So year for chocolates, bonbons,
marshmallows, gum drops, all-day
suckers and lemon drops That is,
it would cost that sum if the cost
We're prorated equally among the 49,
100000 folks in the Nation.
In 1910, we ate $500, 900, 900 pounds
of candy. 1t is admitted that most OF
it was consumed by the feminine sex
And yet, in spite of all this, people
wonder why SO many American maids
and matrons are fat!
Candy factories have doubled in
number within the last few years
We are eating fifty times as much OF
1.-The subtly and frankly sweet stuff as
We did twenty years ago. Children
must have candy every day, and the
children's mothers nibble at it all
IIay long and consume a half-pound
box nearly every evening. Strong
men have fallen victim to it's insid
iousness and sit at their desks fur
lively gnawing at taffys fudge and
| other sticky concoctions They would
as soon think of going without their
collars as without their daily ration
II We would quit eating candy in
this country for two years We would
have saved enough money to pay of
the national debt
With the candy money spent in one
year in this country We could buy
our Uncle Samuel 100 new battle
ships of the Dreadnought type. But
we cannot eat warships, and the
| sweet tooth of America must be filled
With that $500 200, 900 we would be
able TO drain every acre of swamI
land in the Mississippi valley.
With that $500,000,000 we coult
build and fortify, fill up and dig over
again another Panama canal, but We
must have our daily ration of candy
II butter goes up to 40 cents pound
and eggs become as precious as the
| glittering gems from GoIconda.
When father was boy only ricl
children had candy every day. 4
nickel's worth of candy would bride
whole schoolroom. That same
nickels worth of candy was a whole
| Christmas itself. You had candy t.
cat only on extra special occasion.
| like Christmas, the Fourth of Jul,
and during the county fair.
| -Four times as much candy is now
made yearly in the United States as
was made ten years ago. The appetite
OF the Candy Kid" is increasing
Candy shops are thicker now thar
saloons We're in the old days. The
output of 1910 was double that of 100:
and was 90 per cent greater than thai
of 1909. III.
ltook-ashoe, DR.. Cooks intelligent
Esquimaur loved gumdrops. He loved
them no better, however, than the
American Miss likes toasted marsh
mallows. The little boys and girls OF
the congested districts of any big CITY
make steady and reliable consumers
OF the cheaper grades of candy. New
York's candy experts claim that one.
] half the money that goes into the tills