The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1912-07-05
SATISFYING The
Sweet TOOTH
,Na -
A Million Tons of Candy
Used Each Year.
Miss America and Brother will
Probably Beat Record
This Year.
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as much or more this year. Next year
she may beat all previous records. Sh-
Is the real, original and only "Ksundy
Kid"
Just now she Is eating more than
she ever ate before. For Christmas
time the candy-eating records must
fall. The female of the Species eats
the candy. She keeps the rest Of the
country busy raising the money where
with to purchase more sweet stuff.
1t costs every man. woman and
child in the United states Just about
s. year for chocolates, bOn-bons
marshmallows, gum drops all-day
suckers and lemon drops. That is. t
would cost them that sum ii the cost
was prorated equally among tile g.
0O0.OO folks in the nation.
In 1910 we ate 2.5W,0V.Wo pounds of
candy. 1t is admitted that most of 1t
was consumed By the feminine sen
And yet. in spite of all this, people
wonder why so many American maids
and matrons are fat!
Candy factories have doubled Ill
are eating fifty times as much of the
subtly and frankly sweet stuff 49, we
did twenty years ago. Children must
have candy every day. and the chill
dren's mothers nibble at 1t all day
long and consume a half-pound box
nearly every evening. Strong men hav"
fallen victim to its insidiousness an
sit at their desks furtively gnawinS
at taffy, fudge and other sticky con-
coctions. There are business men vino
are never without 1t in their desks.
They would as soon think of going
without their collars as with"ut their
daily ration.
II we would quit eating candy ia
this country for two yeans-tor just
twenty-four hours-we would have savrd
enough money to pay off the national
debt.
With the candy money spent in one
year in this country wye could buy orr
Uncle Samuel 100 new battleships Of
the dreadnausht type. But we cannot
eat warships. and the sweet tooth of
America must be filled
With THAT s5COoOv.Oco. we could build
and fortify, fnl up and dig over again
another Panama Canal. But we must
have our daily ration of candy if butter
does go up to 70 cents a pound and eggs
become as precious as the glitterlng
gems from Golconda.
children had candy each DAY nick
els worth of candy would briba Il
whole schoolroom. That same nickal's
worth of candy was a whole Christmas
in itself. You had candy TO cat only
on extra special occasions like Christ
mas, the Fourth of July. and during
the country fair.
Four times as much candy is now
made yearly in the United States as
was made ten years ago. The appe-
title Of the Candy Kid" is incraasin.
Candy shops are thicker now thar
saloons were in the old days The our-
put of 1910 was double thai of 1896 AMI
was so per cent greater than that
of 1903.
Watch the children of the public
school make "a rush for the candy shop
during the recess period. Their pen
MES and nicllels come over the coun-
tiers by the score. Notice too, how a
number of these thrifty dealers in
candles always try to get in the very
shadow of these school buildings.
They know the number of coins that
WIN be theirs il they manage To .sat
into "A food hooation where the sweets
Will lure the children. The school
lunch may cut into their profits. but
''rir IN no Hope lildt NJ Mll FINALLY !
break them of the habit
Chocolates are the most popular of
al the vari-co,ored, mMti-shlaped wares
displayed in the windows OF the con
tectioner. They are getting more so
every year. The bomb is ssoina; back !
IN the esteem of the populace. Marion
slaces, eclairs weird connections and
are holding their own.
Undoubtedly the candy habit Is spread. |
ing. Candy is more extensively adver- |
Used than ever before. Grown folks |
never think OF being ASHAMED OF their
'andy-eatins proqlivities. Indians dow |
,n the reservations eat candy as raven
Dusty as they once ate roast plppv. |
Il is second To water -melon in the |
opinion of the Ethiopian.
Hundreds and thousands of tons are
'aten every day. The market varies
Dut little In the summer and spring
nDpthS hut Al Ueis tittta l.atfa.