ALCOHOL OR SWEETS?

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 6, 2 January 1913, Page 8

ALCOHOL OR SWEETS?

Are we increasing in sweetness, asks a London paper. The question i« evoked by the notable increase of sweetetuff shops in certain parts of the metropolis. In Walworth road, for instance, which has already a fair supply of sweet-sellers, four- big new confectioners’ shops have been opened within the past twelve months. Hard by, in London road, seven out ot less than a hundred shops are now devoted to the sale of sweets. Is it because the sale of sweets was formerly less than the demand? Is the increase merely the result of rival companies trying to cut one another; or has the consumption of sweets really increas(Kl—through people wanting something to suck whilst “looking at the pictures?” . „ The real explanation of the vogue of the sweet shop is closely connected with the difficulties of the London club, which always depended for profits on the men who drank. Now every club secretary knows that the members are drinking less and loss every year of alcohol. But they buy sweets', chocolate, and Turkish delight. Why? The man who was sucking butterscotch explained that it was a question between sweets and drink. A man who likes sweets has got the vice that saves him from the other vice of beer. ,