The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-26
FIZZING BEVERAGES,
The Popular Summer Drinks a.
the Soda Fountains.
An Interesting Story by an Effer'
vescent Clerk-Steady AL
cohoI Drinkers.

A STATESMAN reporter last evening, on
his night tramp, slid into popular drug
store where cooling beverages were being
rapidly dispensed from q beautiful foun-
tam to a bevy of handsome young ladies
and their gentlemanly escorts.
After shaking their thirst with the delici-
Gus drinks, the merry party left and the re-
porter asked:
do you sell many of those fizzy drinks
during the dayy"
"Gracious! 1 should say. Drink after
drink is sold. Hundreds are passed over
til the rush is great"
(which are the most popular drinks ?"
asked the reporter.
"With the young men raspberry phos-
pilates, and with the ladies lemon and
vanilla. The milk shake has been a very
popular beverage, but it is losing caste.
The ladies drink lemon and
vanilla because of their supposed
identifying effect on the complexion,
and they are by all odds the most health
full of all the syrups."
"By the way we have drink for the
boys who have made night of it and
have been drinking liked drinks until
their stomachs are out of sorts. It's not
the most pleasant on earth, but for
strengthening out, soothing the nerves and
SOLDERING up fellow it cannot be beat"
ats a gill of moderately strong tea, a
tables poonful of Worcestershire sauce, a
dash of peppermint and vichy. There is
nothing like it for settling a stomach
infiamed by alcohol and for setting
fall Mi I'm ha OF 10
alcoholic drinks afterwards"
900 you ever have calls for the stronger
beverages!"
"Yes, indeed. Fellows rush in here and
want milk punches nearly every hour in
the day, but they are refused, although we
have right to sell them as we
take out regular retailers liquor
license we send all such down to Billie
aud Charles or over to the Crystal, where
the artists know just how to compound
Them"
"By the way, it's amusing to see fel.
lows come in here and call for a glass OF
soda and at the same time give the at
tendant wink. You see they read what
you newspaper fellows say about the
seductive influence Of wink a
the soda fountain, and they
try it on hoping to have some fine liquor
dashed in. Would you believe it, even tn,
ladies try the wink racket. The otheI
morning you had something in TIL
STATESMAN about winKing at the sodt
fountain and asking for soda with {
"stick" in it. Well, sir, well-knowr
lady called that day and asked for lemor
soda, and as she did so she made ludi
crous effort to wink, ard then looked al
lamb-like and innocent as possible. She
wanted brandy dashed into the glass, and
not getting it, she left the beverage un-
touched and walked out disappointed.
Sometimes they come in as demure al
possible, and in the most innocent way i'm
aginable ask for soda with a stick in it.
A new clerk we had some time ago, no
understanding the true import of thu
question and not wishing to be though
ignorant, stuck a clean pine Splinter
straight up in the glass and handed it t.
lady. She left the house very indignant
Do you know" continued the gentleman,
dispenser of cooling beverages, "ths
there are lots of alcohol drinker
in this cityH They come il
here, and, drawing from theI
pockets small flask, ask to have i
filed with pure alcohol. They like i
better than the rectifed spirits sold at tn
saloons, and then they think it is cheaper
Strange as it may appear, some of tn
hardest drinkers in this city are rsrel!
ever seen in saloon. They are men, too
who show they are.hard tipplers, in thei
bleared eyes and red faces, yet very few
persons think they are drinkers and Sc
down their appearance to some ski
disease. They are alcohol drinkers and i
is the very worst and most dangerou
form in which to drink liquor"