The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-07-26
MIDSUMMER DRINKS.
COOL PALATE TICKLERS FOR NEW
Workers. HOT THROATS.

iOnNGHSs 7Ol 7ROA >.
a Great Variety of Fluid Refreshments for
the Heated Term-At the Drug Store
Fountain-A Crowd of Thirstyeyyomen.
Girls
New York probably beats the world for
the variety and quality of its fluid re-
freshments, both for warm and cold
weather, but more especially in summer
does II seem to run riot in the profusion
OF drinks with which to cool the parched
tongues OF its citizens. This is a good
oea! Que, no doubt. to the mixed character
OF the population, each nationality having
us favorlte distinctive tipple. but each
being by no means slow to appreciate the
virtues of the favorite of any other; the
result being that the German immigrant,
who has hitherto been welded to his
lager the Englishman to his ale and
porter, the Dutchman to his gin, the
frenchman and Spaniard to their wine
ana brandy. the lrishman and Scotchman
TO their whisky. the Mexican to his
puique the Russian and Pole to their
Vookl' rapidly become the American citi-
zen VINO drinks anything and everything.
THE DRUG STORE FOUNTAIN.
The drug store fountain" with its
gorgeous clerk, has become an established
feature OF the thirst supply trade of this
city, and from humble beginnings as dis
penser OF soda water and mild essences
only has evolved into mammoth NEGRO
mancers casket, concealing q multiplicity
OF strange mixtures in its MANY cham
bered interior and glistening outside with
polished marble turrets and slabs brist-
Ling with scores of silver plated taps.
knobs and faucets, till it looks like an
understood Chinese pagoda Watch the
stream of people that pass in and out to
the favOrite down town resort. Here
comes swarthy young fellow who calls
for orgeat.
What's orgeat?' you ask. "Orgeat,"
says the clerk, lis the temperance drink
of the New York Spaniard and Cuban
It's made of sweet and sour pulverized
almonds, sugar and orange juice, and is
somewhat similar to the peach phosphates
that sOuthernerS like"
"What'v We you got good for dyspepsia"
says sallOw New Englander, who comes
up at rapid gait, forgetting to buy a
check in his hurry to get away again
Without waiting for an answer, he adds,
Gimme pepsolne." He fills up the, to
him 'interminable, moment it takes the
clerk to fill his glass by reading the names
on row of patent medicine bottles, gulps
his pepsoline and is off ''Lots of them, :"
says the clerk in q kind of compassionate
tone. Haven't got time to chew and
want their stomachs to do the work of a
cyclone pulverizer
Nerve tonic" says a faded looking
man with wink to the clerk. He gets
it from bottle in little closet behind
the fountain and it seems to do him good,
by the way he smiles and smacks his lips.
whats that made OFF, you ask. Iron
for the blOod-quinine for the liver
phosphorus for the brain and strychnine
for the nerves" says the clerk all in one
breath, like man who has said it many
times before and is little tired of it.
ooh, not enough strychnine to hurt, he
adds, in reply to your surprised look,
lust enough to brace the nerves. It's
SOothing."
A CROWD OF WOMEN.
But if you want to see crowd of hot
women drink, step into big Sixth ave-
nue. store, where they pour in fatigued by
shopping and cross with the heat and the
shortness of their purses. People drink
ice cream soda elsewhere, of course, but
not as they drink it in New York, by the
HOURLY the gallon. At the check desk,
continual thirsty line of customers; at
the counter, the ceaseless sound of a
syrupy pour, a fragile izz, gurgling
gush and q delicate splash rs the Jumps
of ice cream flop to the bottom of the
soda water to be fished for with long
spoon by Gotham'S girlish guZzlers.
A crowd of women struggling for some
thing to quench their thirst is an in
ctr,In+iv-o cirrl+ Mony of tbo,11 11.o,1 bo
gliding of good manners they assume out
side again. Watch that big one. She
values her weight now, if at no other
time. She sails up to the check desk re-
CARELESS of the polite request to fall in
line, throws her money down and grabs a
cheek intended for some one else, Shout
ders path through her indignant sisters
to the counter plants herself squarely on
the toe of patient woman who is just
about to catch the eye of the clerk, Sc
cures her place as she squirms. compels
the clerks attention, gets her drink
takes an unnecessarily long time to con-
sumo it, uses her elbows freely to get out
again wrecks several infants in her
triumphal passage to the door and reas-
sumes the appearance of q lady the
moment she reaches the sidewalk
School girls generally want strawberry
and vanilla mixed; the older brunettes,
coffee or chocolate; blondes, pineapple or
lemon; old women, sarsaparilla or rasp-
berry, and the widows and unmarried
women of a certain age eschew soda water
for apollinars or vichy, which has no idle
froth to prevent looking over the edge of
the glass while drinking and does not fizz
up the nose, making it red and the eyes
watery-New York Tribune.
Mental Organization of Criminals.
Dr Henry .Mandsley, of London, in his