Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-05-10
COOL SUMNER DRINKS
TIE Hizz and Piurt Of the Soda
Fountain Are Heard Again.
LIQUID JOYS FOR THIRSTY PALlIES
Drava From the Ssetared sprisg and
nlrrorsd Feast. or the NASTY Bnsg-
hole OF the Cider bArrsi-How the
Rural Conn otsssars keysL


smile each day. the wayfarer looks for
relief in cooling drinks. He sees q
Haunting banner bearing the words
''Bock beer, fresh and COOL" and he
goes IN and samplesit. The first effects
are exhiIarating and refreshing, but in
half an hour ne is hotter than before.
When his handkerchief becomes satu-
rated with persplration he mops his
oozing brow with his sleeve and the
great drops OF sweat 60 chasing each
other down his back. At length ne HES
him 10 soda fountain and nnds what
he Is after, something that cools and
refresnes- the soda fountain is a lux
ury that Will never grow unpopular,
but II Is only within year or two that
Grand Rapids has had soda fountain
worthy or patronage. The oid-tash-
Toned fountain was drawn from at
irregular intervals, and the carbonated
water had time to absorb q good deal
Ut TIN before It was transferred to the
stomach of the drinker. The syrups
were superanhuated hair oils that were
often drank ia delight to be thrown up
IN disgust. The man who tended the
fountain was usually laid away. under
the first winter snow il he drank much
OF his own compound.
rosntains Of Ssauty.
Today the first-class fountain is q
thing of beauty and the dispensing of
carbonated drinks Is fine art. The
name Of the syrups is legion. The
| fiavors are all made from the pure fruit
Juices and these are combined with
| fresh cold cream, or the car
donated water in a way
10 ,tlckie the palate and cool
the fsvered blood. The popular soda
| dispensaries are preparing for an active
campaign during the coming season.
The popular drinks that seem to have
come TO stay, are ice cream soda, straw
berry fruit, egg phosphate and milk
shake. There are host of new Corners
in the way of flAvors, that look delicious
In print, such as egg toddy, egg coffee,
royal cobbler, creme de mint, cham
payne fizz and peach cream. Arend's
kumyss IS another milk soda that
promises to be very popular. The best
Of the trade comes in o smeltering day
when the street sprinkler goes up and
down and the moisture from its busi-
ness end falls with hiss upon the
parchiEg pavement; when the grass
willis and the flowers droOp, and the
corn in the garden curls and shrivels in
the blazing sun. Watch the ever flow
ing, never ceaslng stream as 1t comes
and goes. Here is q young miss who
comes tripping along as light as this
tie down. She sits down on a stool in
front OF the fountain and scans the
drink program very critically. She
| nrters Wv hat M pts and holdipp IN
glass daintily between thumb and fin
ger, she sips and sips while a dreamy
delight is visible in her fair young face.
Then she fidgets about to find her
pocket book, and having paid, she fits
away as she came.
| How the Stream Flows.
| Next comes a business man in q great
hurry. "What syrup" 81 don't care;
anything that Is cold and wet" Down
it goes. The nickel chinks ON the cool
marble counter and he is gone. Next
comes a big fat man with q nose like an
infiamed Bartlett pear. He rests his
bullying waistband against the edge of
the marble and about forty
pounds of adipose tissue seems to
overflow upon the counter. His
breath comes and goes in sterterous
gasps and snarts as he asks in rich
greasy tones for "the same old stuff"
and he winks his moist eye with pecu-
liar significance as he says it. He gulps
his drink down in large installments
and each swallow falls with dull
| splash into his caveruous interior much
as . wilted pancake falls into a half
| filled swill barrei. This man is an old
rounder, who drinks water only to
qualify his other beverages. Here
comes an old fellow with shaggy whis-
kers, IN long linen buster. His vest
IS missing and his dllapidated suspen-
ders loom up conspicuously as frail
support for a pair OF baggy trousers
tucked into the legs Of his cowhide
boots.
"By gum this here's all KILN hot,
amt it? Never seen SIGH weather in
all my born days. These here cussed
later bugs is thlckern' hops in my
gardiug, but I've been KILN on 'em
off till Pm bout melted down into my
boots. Young feller, jest gimme good
stiff dose of that ere sody water, / be-
lieve II will cool me off,
The old man puts his hand TO his jaw
shoots tobacco quid as large as but
ternut into his horny palm. and then
makes all unsuccessful cast at cuspi-
dore. He downs his dose with the air
of martyr and rather likes il when
the gas has ceased rising through his
nose.
"They amt nothin' TO the darned
stuff. but after all il maker Teller feel
cool, don't itf'' he says as be turns TO
60 away.
rhs Art OF Drinking It.
II is something of an art TO drink soda
properly, "a well as to draw it scientif-
caIly. Some people grab up glass and
gufn IL down as If there was a raging
coniiagrstlon in their interior. Then
they cough aud strsngie and shed tears
OF regret as the gas comes tIngling up
ward. Others will let a glass of coda
stand until all the gas hss escaped and
the syrup and water has become vapld.
Then they will make up face and
drink il la save their nickel aud kick
about the quality of the drink. The
experienced soda drawer fills the glass
full Of thick creamy and sparkling
mixture that when properly drank il
delightful Ia the taste and refreshing
TO the whole system. There are other
summer drinks that have . limited
patronage Fresh lager and the soul