THE HARMLESS LOLLIPOP.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1900, 7 November 1913, Page 5

THE HARMLESS LOLLIPOP.

WHAT A PAMQUS PHYSICIAN SAYS. At the fourth annual dinner of the Institute of Certificated Grocers, held in London recently, Sir James CrichtonBrowne, in. proposing "The Institute of Certificated Groeers," said there could be no doubt that the introduction of many of the articles in which they dealt had had a powerful effect in the progress of civilisation, and that then' distribution, throughout the world had corresponded ■with, the spread of Unmaaising influences. It was really tea'that was at the bottom pf the American War of. Independence. He thought one of the encouraging signs of .the times was the gradual increase in tho consumption of sugar in this country. Six years ago the consumption was 3114 pounds per family per annum, while last year it was 417 pounds. The consumption of sugar was in tho inverse ratio' to tho consumption of alcohol. Therefore, ho took it that- the increased consumption of sugar corresDondcd with our increasing temperance. • There could bo no doubt that this consumption of sugar was having a most beneficial effect on the national health, and ousht to be encouraged in every way. ' Sugar, he- said, at one tnno was a luxury and a medicine, but it was now accessible to all. and Was a, prime necessity of life. He was a firm believer in the significance of true natural cravings, and he held that the appetite of children for sugaf was an expression of tho constitution, and ought not to bo thwarted as it h'\d been in the past. There was no fear of sweets or sugar damaging the teeth ii the hard tooth brush was regularly used, as it always ought to be used. In his young days a young man who in dulged 'in sweets was looked upon as ft iuolly-coildie. Those were the days of strong cavendish tobacco and big cigars; bfft in this yeat of the cigarette it was held that the consumption of chocolates, marmalades, and preserves was not incompatible will inanl,y virtues. ■ Some time ago he heard a girl who was going out into the world advised to be sure to marry a man who was fond oi' sweets as well as herself, as it was a good criterion of moral cliaractcr. Give of tho most eminent of our physicians, during the writing of a standard work, when lie found his ideas flagging, set them working ngain by eating sweets, so that it might be said that some of tlio chapters of his books were founded en lollipops. With regard to energy, while a pound of butter yielded twice the energy of a pound arsngar, it did so at four or five times the cost. The fact was that sugar was the cheapest of fuel foods, and a shillingsworth of sugar yielded mere calorifics than a shilJtilgsworth of bread.