The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-06
JUST LIKE THEM.
Refreshments Bars for Fashionable
New York shoppers.

New York Correspondence Chicago Times.
Fashionable clothes occupy the minds,
often to the exclusion of everything else, of
those New York women who are financially
able to crafty their lopgings. Shopping is
their diversion and delight. They spend the
liyelong day going from store to store,
whether they intend to buy anything or not.
They do not stop to go home for midday
meal, but buy lunch wherever they chance
to be when eating time comes. Ia one of
the largest fancy goods establishments in the
city a restaurant fifty feet square does a
rushing business, and a sods-water fountain
tlzzes continuously. But the latest project
for the refreshment Of fashionable women is
bar. Now, bsrrooms In which disreputa
bic women drink are no novelty, but this is
no such concern. 1t is aE respectable rs it is
unique 1t is in Broadway, close 10 Stewards
great mart and Wallack's theatre, in the
midst of handsome retail establishments.
The front is resplendent with plate glass, snd
the store itself is wide, deep and elegantly
fitted up. The walls and ceiling are frescoed
and the floor is marble. Ono side is devoted
to the sale of confectionery That shows the
proprietor's shrewdness, for women proba-
bly, would not 60 in there ii there was moth
ing but bar in the place. The bar runs
along tho opposite side, and is about the
same in style rs those Of the best cafes,
though the marble center is little lower.
An immense mirror faces the drinkers, and
the back bar is adorned without glasses and
decanters. Instead of q beer pump, how
ever, there is q soda fountain. Piles of
lemons, an ornamental lemon.sQueezer,
groups OF ginger slo bottles and pyramids
ofsilVer Tom and Jerry cups make a dis
play as gorgeous rs can be found on any
bar in the city. Two bartenders, of the
regulation pattern, with their hair and
moustacbe carefully brushed, diamonds
glistening on their polished shirt fronts, and
the sleeves of their white coats turned up
to their elbows, are constantly on duty. The
women walk up just like little men and or
der their drinks with the careless air of
veterans. The enterprise has been under
way only few weeks and is already an
established success. The beverages are about
whet might be expected. "Hsrd liquors"
are not sold, except in mixed drinks, us in
Tom and Jerrys, on which the run during
the present cold weather is brisk. They
are made hot and sweet, and the women dote
on them. Tho next most popular drink just
now is hot punch, composed Of rum, lemon
Juice, wster and dash OF brandy. Some-
times settler is ordered instead Of water.
Hot coffee, chocolate and lemonade are also
sold 10 large quantities On days of moder-
ate temperature,the call is for cold lemonade,
caret punch, ginger ale and soda water.
4 }, rfluN IN Of
ale bottle WIS m0mentary, and the lever of
the lemon-sQueezer was in almost constant
motion. Women stand three feet deep in
front of the bar. Two companions drank
together, and each paid for her own dis
sipation; but as a rule the gentle tpplers
gracefully initiate polite barro6m manners,
though they are given TO slipping their
beverages slowly, instead Of tossing them
into their mouths like 80 much medi-
cine
"What arc you going to drink" said a
mild-faced sapling ola girl in closk Of satin
matelesse aud blue capote,
'.Ips my treat this time" replied a
cherry-lipped dumping Of q belle in maroon
velvet.
"No, no; you bought yesterday. Come,
whapll you take?"
"a settler lemonade"
"Malle mao a Tom and Jerry, sweet"
So the confusion of orders and the eager
drinking went on. asked one of the bar
tenders why he didn't keep lager beer on
tap, since New York women drink it ut
home and in the concert gardens so gener-
ally. He said: "0h, We want TO go slow al
frst-dont want to starIle our customers too
much; but we'll give 'em beer as soon as
warm weather comes"