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Show THE SURFEIT CURE. Mr. Rozzle Think That for the Ice Cream Habit It Is a Relation. "When I was a youngster." said Mr. Bozzle, "I used to wonder how the confectioners could make money. It always seemed to me that the clerUs would eat so much candy that they would eat up all the profits. 1 re-I re-I member reading- or hearing later that j this was uot so; that when a new I clerk came into the store the pro- prietor would say: 'Now, I hope you ! will eat all the caudies you want; J don't hesitate to help yourself at any j time,' and that tho result of this was j that at the end of a week she was so i sk and tired of candy that she hated the sight of it, and didn't want any more for a year. This, I suppose, j mifrht be called a surfeit cure. "After I had grown up nud come to have a family, l rt'iuemWred this and thoui'ht I might turn the idea toad-vantage. toad-vantage. I had four children, and the amount ofmoney they spent for ice cream and candy and soda, water was something awful. 1 thought that by spending in a lump enough money to make them tired of those things I mi.ht in the long run make a considerable consid-erable savins'. I set aside one thousand dollars for that purpose, aud one day I said to my oldest child: i " 'Tillie. I don't believe you and tho children are beginning to have the ice cream and candy you ou'ht to have. 1 am afraid you think because papa isn't very rich that you must skimp your-j your-j selves about these things, but you i needn't; you can have all the money you want for them. Here's fifty dollars. dol-lars. Now, 1 wish you'd take the children chil-dren out and get some ice cream and candy, and whenever that money is pone, just let me know, and I'll give you more. ' "Well, they used up that thousand dollars in about tjn weeks, and at the end of that time they were as hungry for ice cream and candy as ever. I kept up t lie supply of money. I was like a tramtder. who keeps on playing" after he has lost a lot, in the hope that his luck might turn. 1 thought they might reacli the surfeiting point at any minute, min-ute, and it seemed too bad to make a dead lo:s of the money already in-veste in-veste 1, wh.-n, perhaps, the expeudi- ture of a few dollars more would accomplish ac-complish the desired results; sol have kept on. Hut the children's appetite fur ice cream and candy seems actually actual-ly to iucrea .e. They tell me 1 am 8 jroud; and that, of course, is something some-thing 1 like to see them happy; but. meanwhile, my hard-earned money b molting away, and 1 am inclined to think that the surfeit cure is a delusion, delu-sion, if not a snare.'" X. Y. Sun. |