That candy has become the basis of a bad habit—like tea, tobacco, alcohol, or ice-water—has long been admitted by medical men; that its worst victims are not women, however, is not so well known, except to the owners of candy shops. The fact that one man bought and devoured 400 pounds of the richest chocolates in one summer, and that this gastronomic feat was not looked upon as anything unusual by the candy clerks, will give some idea of the slavery to which the habitual candy-eaters are committed. The man who consumed “confectionery” by the hundred-weight is young. He generally yields to temptation immediately after luncheon—although the craving sometimes becomes unendurable at an earlier hour. He estimates that the candy he bought for personal consumption cost him $250 last summer. He has been an unwilling victim for years, and has frequently “sworn off”—or attempted to. The last time was for three months; and when the self-imposed embargo was raised, he bought two pounds of mixed chocolates and ate them between lunch and dinner. —New York Post. The candy habit is on a par with the tea and coffee and liquor and tobacco habits—all unfitting the mind and body for the work the Creator designed they should do. A very little good candy may not be harmful to most people; but most people are using much more of it than is good for them, and millions of dollars are squandered on that habit every year which could be used in very much better ways.