The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-08-06
SUMNER DRINKS.
What the People Cool Themselves
With i'm Hot Wealth.
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hot afternoon, don't know much about
the number and variety of the con-
cOctiOns that ingenious citizens have
devised for the purpose of taking the
cobwebs out of the esOphagi of weary,
perspiring mortals, when the mercury
is soaring somewhere considerably
higher than fourth place, and the eggs
are scorched before they are laid. The
barkeeper in any liquid refractory,
making the slightest pretensions to
completeness can mix some.
thing less than 1000 seduc-
tive, cooling, liquids, the
composition of which are a profound
secret to those who drink them, and
the "boy who tends the soda fount
which squirteth empty air" knows of
more drinks than cider and lemonade,
but it is doubtful if any one man
knows more than half the hot weather
beverages that different dealers adj
vertise. There are a great many new
ones every year. The style In drinks
change as they do in hats and dresses,
and many new ones come in every
year. They aren't so much different
from the old ones, as a usual thing,
but new ingredient or two are added
to an old mixture, and, with a new
name and very likely another nickel
on the price, it goes out as a "new
and popular drink"
THIS YEARS STYLES.
The styles this year are not mate
rally different from those of last
season. Beer will remain as popular
as ever, but will not be cut lower
than last year. although some dealers
sell larger glasses for five cents.
Fips, juleps, cobblers, punches, cock
tails, egguoggs and thousand other
peculiar compounds are at the finger
ends of an accomplished barkeeper,
and all find plenty of buyers among
the different classes of people
who frequent the bar room. But
there are dozens of non-intoxicants
that arc sold in quantities surprising
the knowledge of man at every stylish
bar. Buttermilk is sold to hundreds
of thirsty people every day. As
many more drink plain milk. while
hot. tired business men drink lemon
ade to truly alarming extent. One
bartender In all his white jacketed
GOODNESS leaned lazily against the bar
and said in answer to question:
"Well, lemonade will continue to be
the favorite summer drink. Every
body drinks lemonade, from the sappy
young man with a few Struggling
hairs on his upper lip, tennis blazer
hanging over his scrawny frame and
q cigarette in his mouth, to the fat,
red-faced individual whose clothes fit
him too soon. Lemonade is cool snd
refreshing, and people know what
they are drinking, and it is a kind
Of old reliable drink. Some take
claret in it; others want dash of
bit stronger"
ICE CREAM SODA.
A druggist who has one of the
finest soda fountains in the city
'aid he was having a great run
On ice cream soda. You see nearly
every drink foundry has some speci-
atty of some one thing. There are so
many soda and mineral waters and
drinks, and there is 80
much competition, that it is impossi-
bic to have the best of each and all,
70, by particular pains and care in
selection and preparation of materials,
zach soda dissemination manages to get
! reputation for the excellence of |
some one drink, and depends upon
hat to draw his trade"
The cost of soda fountain is some
hing surprising to people who have |
never had any occasion to inquire into
It. There are fountains in this city
hat cost from $500 to 81 900 and any
number of them that are valued at
$500 and S400. Some idea of the
extent of the soda business can be |
gained from the cost of these foun-
aims.
"a man can't afford to run a $1,000 |
'oda fountain unless he is selling some
'oda, remarked an Ohio street drug
yist. ''There is one man in this city |
Who must sell $40 worth of sweetened
wind in single day sometimes. By |
he way" he added, "that 'sweetened
wind gag is rather whispered now for |
people won't pay for bubbles any
more, they want syrup and soda and
hey are going to have it.
Dealers in summer drinks don't de-
bend on women and children for their
principal patronage, as was formerly |
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