Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1903 — TRICK CANDIE FOR “JOKERS." [ARTICLE]

TRICK CANDIE FOR “JOKERS."

Leaded Sweetmeats Bought by Male Fun-Lovers. “The trick cigar has its counterpart in confectionery,” said a candy manufacturer the other day. “The callow youth who delights in giving explosive cigars to his men friends demands something similar for the can-dy-consuming sex, and we have to meet the demand. “The possibilities of a cream chocolate or a piece of nougat are limited, but we have a few contrivances. We make of a very hard candy an imitation of a tooth with a gold crown, and hide it in a cream chocolate. You can imagine the rest —a party of women munching candy, one of them discovering something hard, and finding a gold-crowned tooth loose In her mouth! “Similarly we imitate a bone collar button in a hard white candy,” continued the candy man, according to the New York Times, “hide a candy shoe-button in a piece of nougat, put a bit of cork in a caramel or fill a candied cherry with red pepper. So long as.the sanity experts don’t weed out these alleged jokers the candy man has to put up these trick candies for them.”