Among the many fatalities attending the bloom of young desire, that of blindlytaking to the confectionery line has not, perhaps, been sufficiently considered. Howis the son of a British yeoman, who has been fed principally on salt pork and yeastdumplings, to know that there is satiety for the human stomach even in a paradise ofglass jars full of sugared almonds and pink lozenges, and that the tedium of life canreach a pitch where plum-buns at discretion...