Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-08-18
MIDSUMMER DRINKS.
COOL PALATE TICKLERs FOR NEW
 YORKERS' HOT THROATS.

4 Great Variety of Fluid Refreshments for the Heated Term-At the Drug Store Fountain-A Crowd Of Thirsty Women! Girls. T New York probably beats the world for the variety and quality of it's fluid re- treatments, both for warm and cold weather, but more especially in summer does it seem to run riot in the profusior of drinks with which to cool the parched tongues of it's citizens. This is good deal due, no doubt, to the mixed charactes of the population, each nationality having it's favorite distinctive tipple, but each being by no means slow to appreciate tha virtues of the favorite Gf any other, ths 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 and brandy, the Irishman and Scotchman to their whisky, the Mexican to his puluue, the Russian and Pole to theii vodki, rapidly become the American citi- zen, who drinks anything and everything.
 THE DRUG STORE FOUNTAIN.
 The drug store fountain" with it's gorgeous clerk, has become an established
 
 city, and from humble beginnings as dis penser of soda water and mild essences only has evolved into |. mammoth necro- mancer's casket, concealing a multiplicity of strange mixtures in it's 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 undersized Chinese pagoda. Watch the stream of people that pass in and out to the favorite down town resort. Here comes a swarthy young fellow who calls for orgeat.
 Whats orgeat7" 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've you got good for dyspepsia?' says O sallow New Englander, who comes up at rapid gait, forgetting to buy 6 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 tht clerk to fill his glass by reading the name: on a row of patent medicine bottles, gulps his pepsoline and is off, Lots of them, says the clerk ill kind of compassionat' tone. Haven't got time to chew ana want their stomachs to do the work of cyclone pulverizer.
 Nerve tonic," says e iaded loolzin, man with 0 wink to the clerk. He get it from a bottle in e little closet behin the fountain and it seems to do him good by the way he smiles and smacl1s his lips "Whats that made of2' you ask. ''lro flor the blood-quinine for tho liver phosphorus for the brain and stryehnin for the nerves," says the clerk all in on breath, like man who has said 1t man times before and is little tired of i "Oh, not enough strychnine to hurt, ? | adds, in reply to your surprised lopl , ''just enough to brace the nerves. It soothing"
 A CROWD OF WOMEN.
 But if you want to see g. crowd of hC women drink, step into a big Sixth nv nue store, where they pour in fatigued shopping and cross with the heat and u shortness of their purses. People dril ice cream soda elsewhere, of course, bl not as they drink it in New York, by u ? hour-by tho gallon. At the check desl a continual thirsty line of customers; > the counter, the ceaseless sound of syrupy pour, fragile fzz, a gurglir D gush, and delicate splash as the luInl :. of ice cream flop to the bottom of u o soda water to be fished for with 0 loI l. spoon by Gothams girlish guzzlers. $ A crowd of women struggling for som T thing to quench their thirst is an 1 Is structive sight. Many of them drop u
 gliding of good manners they assume ou il side again. Watch that big enc. 5 le values her weight now, If at no oth le time. She sails up to the check desk I 9f gardless of the polite request to fall te line, throws her money down and grabs
 check intended for some ono else, sheI
 ders path through her indignant sisse
 to the counter. plants herself squarels
 the toe of patient woman who is ssl
 about to catch the eye of the clerk, s
 cures her place as she squirms, conpC
 the clerks attention, gets her d1sn
 takes an unnecessarily long time to ac
 surle it, uses her elbows freely to get 9 again. wrecks several infants in ! !
 triumphal passage to the door and Te;
 sumes the appearance of lady t
 moment she reaches the sidewalk.
 School girls generally want strawlie1
 and vanilla mixcd the older bruneTt
 coffee or chocolate; blondes, pineappP
 lemon; old women, sarsapariiia or 44'
 berry, and the widows and unmafri
 women Of certain age eschew soda va CT for apollinaris or vichy, which has nd <
 froth to prevent looking over the edge m the glass while drinking and does nos ire up the nose, making it red and the le. ast watery.-New York Tribune.