Wichita eagle., 1888-07-15
MIDSUMMER DRNgHS. !
COOL PALATE TlcKLERs FOR NEW
Workers. HOT THROATS.

Workers. HOT THROATS.
A Great Variety of Fluid Refreshments for
the Heated Term-At the Drug Store
Fouutain-A Crowd OF Thirsty 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 it seem to run riot In the profusion
of drinks with which to cool the parched
tongues Of its citizens. This is good
deal due, 10 doubt, to the mixed character
of the population. each nationality having
it's favorite distinctive tippie, 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
/ Frenchnan and Spaniard to their wine
and brandy, the lrishman and Scotchman
| to their whisky, the Mexican to his
puloue, the Russian and Pole to their
J vodki, rapidly become the American citi-
zen, W uO OffUhS dlAs 'AiiiSS '>N S'SA N/AAAS3'
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
/ mancer's casket, conceallng 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 fayorite down town resort. Here
/ comes a swarthy young fellow who calls
! for orgeat.
Whats orgeat?" you ask. ''Orgeat,"
SAWS the clerk lis the temperance drink
/ of the New York Spaniard and Cuban.
/ It's made of sweet and sour pulverized
t almonds, sugar and orange juice, and is
somewhat similar to the peach phosphates
/ that southerners like"
"What've you got good for dyspepsia"
saws sallow New Highlander, who comes
up at rapid gait, forgetting to buy
check in his hurry to get away again.
Without waiting for an answer, he adds,
Gimme pepsoline" He fills up the, to
him inter1ninable, moment it takes the
clerk to fill his glass by reading the names
on a row of patent medicine bottles, gulps
his pepsoIine and is off "Lots of them"
saws the clerk in KIND Of compassionate
tone. Haven't got time to chew and
want their stomachs to do the work OF
cyclone pulverizer.
"Nerve tonic" says jaded looking
man with wink to the clerk. He gets
1 it from bottle in a 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. "lron
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.
"Oh, not enough strychnine to hurt, he
adds, in reply to your surprised look,
'just enough to brace the nerves. It's
soothing"
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, fragile fizz, a 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 Gothanl's girlish guzzlers.
crowd of women struggling for some
thing to ouench 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. SLS
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 q
check 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 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 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.