Our Sweet Tooth 



The world over, we will find 

 with exceptions, here and there, to 

 prove the rule that the poorer a 

 people the less sugar it eats, while 

 the more spending money it has the 

 more it uses though, as we shall 

 see later, sugar is one of the cheapest 

 of foods. 



The use of sugar might well depend 

 upon many other things than pros- 

 perity. It might well depend upon 

 the propinquity of a people to the 

 sugar market (and consequently 

 price); upon the character of other 

 foods consumed for obviously those 

 whose principal diet is figs require 

 but little store-bought sugar; upon 

 the quantities of beer or other sugar- 

 producing drinks a people uses; or 

 even, on national tradition. But, it 

 is interesting to note, from a table 

 such as follows, how closely sugar 

 and spending-money seem to go hand 

 in hand: 



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