| Show THE CHEWING GUM FAD irei women and children Ull users of tolu anil ana few people have any realization of the large 0 interests involved in the manufacture of chewing gum or of the cx ck tent to which it is habitually used know knew that children love tile the sticky morsel that keeps their jaws in in motion but the extent to which the their ar elders indulge a similar is is generally unsuspected women are 11 nut t proof against 0 tile the seductions of tile the pon penny ny pack package iloe and hosts of men who hide tile I 1 lie little wad when threatened with discover dico disco vor viry y are wont to slip their small chango change 0 in the hands of boyish vendors of tolu and paraffin 0 dl it lights Mits 0 such is tile the testimony of dealers whose hose assertion finds occasional proof in in the observations of every one chewing in women may inny be seen in sores koras on street cars and even on the llie promenade they ire are so addicted to the habit that even in public they can not forsake its exercise but those these arc exceptional devotees many more indulge the taste in in private secretly enjoying what they blushingly confess or hide from every eye the masculine chewer must have something in his mouth perhaps because he is trying 0 to escape from tho the thrall thralldom doni of to tobacco bacco or because lie finds it a soothing aid to reflection it would be amusing to find on under sides of somber desks the evidences of such a childish taste but bat the discovery might easily bo be made by any curious investigator 0 to meet this want vast amounts of gu gum in are annually manufactured one large 0 firm in elgin with a branch in tile city avera averages es 1600 boxes a day and requires the services of more than one hundred girls to wrap the little packages they keep in stock worth of tiny pictures to adorn their wares and catch the color lovino loving 0 eyes of little customers omers another firm in new york cit y does a business estimated at yearly though this is tile largest manufactory in the country there are numerous others that do a good business and that swell the sum received to millions annually though there are innumerable varieties of gum differing chiefly in flavoring ano 0 and appearance 7 there are several kinds that are wholly y distinct of these the white or gums and tho the darker colored tolu gums are made in largest quantities all white varieties are made of par afline an article requiring no description tolu gums arc the product of balsam tolu and the tree the latter is found in mexico it yields fields a rubber like gum auni called that can be easily cli chewed ewed and is of creamy brown color tolu is yielded by the balsam tree that boars baars its name it is of dark color and serves the purpose of adding elasticity to the compound sugar is used to sweeten gum and various ingredients are added to furnish different flavors manufacturers report a steadily increasing creasan M demand for their wares throughout the country this is if especially not noticeable ceable in the south where gum chewing is supplanting 0 the old snuff habit to which women were almost universally addicted whatever maybe may bo thought 0 of the new custom it is certainly better than the old if only on account of cleanliness the chief objection to it seems to be its lack of taste if not its positive vulgarity but so ion long 0 as human nature takes delight in doing 1 things 0 not quite commendable it pr probable could find few less harmful diversions beauty with a end cud is not a pleasing eleasin a sity sight m lit however and the social laws that forbid her to eat upon the promenade should relegate the enjoyment of her gum uni to hours of privacy chicago herald |
