Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1881 — Love of Confectionery. [ARTICLE]

Love of Confectionery.

A French writer says that in the United States the confectionery shops f<»r ladies are as numerous as the liquor shops for men. American girls have a passion for swedi stuff. They only leave one bonbon shop to go and sit down in another. We thought, he adds, that the French women were the worst gourmandes of the Old and New Worlds. We have now to offer them our most humble excuses.