The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-19
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COLD MILK In THE CITY.
HOW milk SHAKES" AND NICE
BUTTERMlLK ARE SWALLOWED.

Park row and opens for business. If it's
cool day he may wait long for a Gus
toner, but if it's sultry the wheels have
hardly ceased turning when he Is sur
rounded by a thirsty crowd and Is fur
ried with orders of:
lone buttermilk!"
Gimme a shakeI"
phosphate in Miner
"Sweet milk-quick!"
There are seven milk shake wagons
located at different points within a quar-
ter of a mile of the city hall, and the
business is q large and growing one.
Each has permit TO occupy special
location, and an intruder would find
warm reception if he attempted to
crowd in.
A stranger looks upon it as queer
business. A resident might wonder how
they do business at all, with so many
soda fountains buzzing all around them.
The ice cream trade comes from the
boys. There isn't man in all New
! York, well dressed or ragged, who dares
stand on the curb and scoop cents
tumbler with his tongue, as the boys dc,
to say nothing about clicking the glass"
after the solid has disappeared. 1t is
| different with the milk shake business.
WIEN MEN DRINK.
Let your collar begin to '1op," the
perspiration TO trickle down behind your
ears, and your,cuffs to grow hmpsy, and
nine men out of ten will think of glass
of cold milk before anything else. There
is never ending tide of humanity pass
ing between that wagon and the figure
in bronze on its stone pedestal. Half Of
them are thirsty. Half of them smack
their lips as they think of the treat Of
fered at their elbows~
| Now see how curious human nature
| is. It takes bit of nerve to detach
| yourself from the crowd and stand up
| to the wagon and quaff your drink. You
half turn, hesitate, go on, and are yexed
with yourself for lack of moral courage
A dozen others go through the same per-
! Torrance after you. Then comes a man
who doesn't care copper for public
opinion, and he turns in and says:
Milk shake, eh? Gimme one, and
have it cold!"
| And from milkcan as clean as tin
can be kept the man dips out big half
| pint of milk as fresh and pure as you
would find it in the farmhouse cellar,
pours it into tumbler, adds strawberry
or other flavoring, and claps on a cover
and places it under the agitator A
dozen turns Of the crank and it Is
"bobbed" until thoroughly mixed, and
he rakes in your nickel and hands you
something which goes right TO the spot
and causes you to whisper to yourself:
"Ah, mel But that does me good!"
! And sheeplike the crowd has followed
! YOU, and a score of men and boys and Of
/ fee girls are ranged along the wagon
and holding their nickels aloft. Butter
milk has the first call, perhaps because
| it is only three cents a glass, but the
milk shake is the old standby and win
/ ming new customers every day. IL is
/ solid from top to bottom. There is no
froth to blow off. The powdered CHINA
mon or nutmeg gives 1t an agreeable
flavor, and you hang on to the last swal-
! low In a grudging sort of way never
1 known even to sweet cider.
HOW MEN DRINK
The milk shake man knows the public
! demands cleanliness and purity, and he
complies He knows that men are hur-
ried, and he's lightning in his move
ments And he's bit Of philosopher
too. When l was talking with him the
other day he said:
''If l wanted TO study the different
phases Of human nature I'd watch the
| people right here. Out Of fifty no two
act alike while they drink. You can
very often guess at a mans profession by
! the way he empties his glass, and 1t Is
| also pretty easy to tell where he halls
| from.
I've seen a Kentuckisn empty that
/ glass at three swallows, and I've known
| a Canadian 10 be ten minutes getting
/ away with it. A broker makes about
/ FIVE gulps to get 10 the bottom Of the
/ glass. a lawyer or doctor takes a swal-
low and then stops to think. \ reporter
will drink half and then stOpt Jot down
something, and 50 J. goes.
"No one can be mistaken in farmer.
You can hear the liquid 90 clurgl clurgl
clurg! as it strikes his Adam apple, and
+ when he reaches the end of the string be
/ planks the glass down with one hand,
/ wipes OF his mouth with the back Of the
4 other and declares:
"'Sayl III be gaul-dsrned if that amt
/ gosh fired good New York World
He Found Him Out.