Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-07-07
MIDSUMMER DRINKS.
cool PALATE TIckLERs FOR NEW
Workers. HOT ThRoArs.

A Great variety Of Fluid Refreshmenss ser
the Heated Tsrm--At the Drug Store
Fsunt&in--A Crowd Of Thirty Women.
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 good
deal due, no doubt, to the mixed character
Of the population, each nationality having
its >favorite distinctive tipple. but each
being byno 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
rrenchman and Spaniard to their wine
and brandy, the Irfshman and Scotchman
to their whisky, the Mexican to his
pulque, the Russian and Pole to their
vodki, rapidly become the American citi.
zen, who 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
dty, and from humble beginnings as dis.
p,nser of soda water and mild essences
only has evolved into a mammoth NEGRO.
mancer's casket, concealing 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 IL looks like an
undersized Chinese pagoda. Watch the
stream of people that pass In and out to
the favorite down town resort. Here
comes swartby young fellow who calls
for orgeat
Whats 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 IL
somewhat similar to the peach phosphates
that sou ,herners like"
"What We you got good for dyspepsias"
says a s..llow New Englander, who comes
up at II rapid gait forgetting to buy q
check in his hurry to get away again.
Without waiting for an answer, he adds,
"Gimme pepsoline." He fills up the, to
him interminable, moment it takes the
on row of patent medicine bottles, gulps
his pepsoline and Is off Lots Of them"
says the clerk In kind of compassionate
tone. Haven't got time to chew and
want their stomacbs to do the work of Q
cyclone pulverizer.
Nerve tonic" says q jaded looking
man with wink to the clerk. He gets
1t 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 1t.
"Oh, 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 IL you want to see a 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 II in New York, by the
hour--by the gallon, At the check desk.
continual thirsty line Of customers; AZ
the counter, the ceaseless sound of q
syrupy pour, fragile fizz, gurgling
gush, and delicate splash as the Jumps
Of ice cream flop to the bottom of the
soda water, to be fshed for with long
spoon by Gotham's girlish guzzlers.
A crowd of women struggling for some.
thing to quench their thirst is an in.
structive sight. Many Of them drop the
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-
gardless of the polite request to fall In
line, throws her money down and grabs O
check intended for some one else, shoul.
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 unpecess sarily 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 lady the
moment she reaches the sidewalk.
School girls generally want strawberry
and vanilla Mixed the older brunettes,
coffee or chocolate; blondes, pineapple oi
lemon; old women, sarsaparilla or rasp.
berry, and the widows and unmarried
women of certain age eschew soda water
for apollinaris 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