The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-02
worcester, Mass, Youth Ia Given
Credit for lnventino These
Sweet Bits of Senti-
ment.
ALL DAY SUCKERS, TOO
lThese Jaw Breakers Came from Same
Candy Man In tho East and Both
Grew Up Since Civil
War.


ton love lozenges," the sentimental
coughdrop, that put Worcester far in
the lead as center of commercial
sweetness in the parlous days that
followed the civil war, the Worcester
(Mass.) Telegram states.
brilliant Worcester youth who
worked in a candy factory invented
or discovered the love ,iozenge" and
several Worcester candy.m made a
fortune out Of 1t in connection with
other sweet goods. The sentimental
coughdrop was modelled by Worces-
ter's past and gone candymakers,
March & Royce, while the converse.
tion lozenges helped to make wealthy
Moses D. Gilman and his successors
! in the candy business.
Mr.. Gilman is 70 years old, but
probably, if he lives to- be 173 years
old, he will never see another such
! epidemic of activity in the candy
/ market as that which ushered in the
love Iozenge. AS short cnt to quick
: love making 1t had the sentimental
coughdrop beaten all hollow.
{. The coughdrop was stamped with
I the one talismanic word kiss" out
the conversation 1ozenge Of forty or
I
! tence of word on each piece of candy
to suit most any condition that might
rise The lozenges were flat and
were neatly printed in sweet red.
I The city was full of worthy young
men lately discharged from the union
army, eager TO take hold and make
! world. but most of them, like all
I firing
/ line were bashful.
| So this genius in the candy bust.
ness invented or involved heart
shaped flat lozenge, on which he IN.
I scriDed in cochineal ink, Il love you.
/ The heart-shaped love lozenge
| looked SO good to him that he In
vented a whole lot Of similar designs,
I including I'm ready, but no rough,
"Want to be nv oueen?" Good for
one kiss" "Dost love me? When
NAV see YOU homer you're the
only one" and whole.barrel OF simi-
I lar short, snappy short cuts 70 court
4 ship.
The love lozenges went with .
whirl Every bashful fellow in Wor-
cester stocked up with them Dfier.
/ emit rockies just out of their 1aded
uniforms OF blue invested in pound
hays. Gallant lads, who faced the
rebel shot and shell at Antietam and
Gettysburg, but who become speech
lies. when they called on the only
adorable girl in all this blissful world,
| found the love loaenges great neip
to them in their sparkling
fellow who blushed like ban
Idanna handkerchief and who choked
up and suffered dreadfniiy wnen no
/ only wanted to say pleasant even
ing" found pound OF these lozehses
Of the greatest help.
A great fayorite was the lozenges
/ with a picture of Cupid thereon, clad
only with his bow and arrow, ana
line underneath where Dan'l was fly
ling with gauze wings. KISS me qulcA'
dearest"
This almost always brought results
and In the years between 1900 anu
1870 there was surprising squirt ~
the marriage market. 1t was the little
i conversation love iozenges that dld ~
and there was some talk about getuns
it patented and selling state rights.
Worcester became so renowned as a
candy center with sweet nonsense
printed on the Cupid kind that Moses
dudley Gilman, who was IN the West
campaigning in the United States
army against the frisky red man, gave
mn his sport out on the plains as soon
as his enlistment expired, and came
hack 10 Worcester to go into the candy
business. 1t was an attractive pusl-
4 ness in those day and Kid coulo
| get plentiful allowance OF sweet
stuff for nickel. 1t was the haicyon
day of the big, round jawbreaker, the
CANDY marble, the long candy cane
and the grabbing for cent, CANDY
was cheap and good because sugar
was selling at twenty pounds for ~
and no war tax. 1t was. in fact, the
iday when the candy kids taste had