LOLLIES.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1151, 17 February 1874, Page 2

LOLLIES.

The coufectioners at Dunedin have raked the price of sweet stuff 7.j per cent. Says the Timaru Herald : We are very glad to hear it, and hope they will be compelled to raise it still higher. The enormous quantities of boiled sugar and plaster of Paris, and sickly messes of various kinds, which children and women and grown up fools of tke male persuasion, swallow' in this country, are awful to think of. Setting aside the absurd waste of money, the consumption of such trash must be very injurious to the health of the community. When a girl can't eat her breakfast, is cross and pouty without any apparent cause, loses her bloom, and finds no amusement in the ordinary delights of colonial girl-hood namely —novel readingand flirtation, —> she may safely be set down as a lollyeater. When a child is found with hard plump cheeks, like the sunny side of a nectarine; cheery bright smile, playing all over his face the momont he is spoken to ; amused and entertained by the slightest effort; never asking for anything, or seeming hurt orsulky ifheis notpetted! tucking into slabs of bread and butter, and mugs of sky-blue, as if they were food for the gods;—the odds are ten to one that his young blood has never been tainted with candy, his temper soured by a long course of pineapple drops, or his independence undermined by cocoanut rock. When a great flabby, insane looking fellow is seen filling his chops with handfuls of bulls eyes or barley sugar, it is not very uncharitable to wish that if there is any cholera murbus iu theneighbor-» hood, he may get a fair share of it!