The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-14
e1RL' AT THE SODA FOUNTAIN
Vichy and Ammonia the Fad Drink OF
the Girl OF the Period.

! the Girl OF the Period.
From the Washington Post
| "Give me glass of vichy, put In tea
spoonful Of ammonia, please"
The soda fountain clerk didn't look In the
least shocked, but turned on the vichy
| faucet and put in liberal dose of ammo
mia, and as he placed it before the girl she
| bubblod all over with apparent delight
and, with the most immensely blase air, in
formed her escort that there was the nectar
OF the gods, and the only proper thing to
drink.
The gods would have been shocked prob
ably If they had heard her. The idea of
Jupiter and ali the rest of the OIympian
citizens quenching their thirst on vichy and
ammonia is only equaled by the suggestion
that Cleopatra and the rest of the famous
beauties may have been victims of the pie
craze
The young lady's escort seemed to still be
susceptible TO the attractions of good, old
fashioned soda, and ordered vanilla soda
with look half of shame at his.own weak
ness and half in pity that the gods were not
still dealing out old-fashioned nectar fla
vored with vanilla and strawberry for
modern girls
This problem of what to drink is puzzler
IN New York, but here in Washington there
are few temptations In the way of seductive
calculated to make girls mouth water and
her Imagination run riot among all the
dreams OF liquid frigldity she ever heard
or. The Washington girl has been faithful
to the soda fountain, the medieval fountain
with ginger. sarsaparilla, and strawberry
and lemon, for many years, long after the
girls OF other cities had turned their backs
on anything SO antique, but now the young
| men are finding out that there is something
else In her mind whom she leans ND against
the sweet, sticky counter and reads the
legends.
The real up-to-date girl hes forsworn
| soda, except when she wears a pink gown
| or happens 70 run up against coufection-
er's where ice cream is dispensed fascinat-
| ing enough to tempt the Venus Of Milo to
step down from her marble footstool and
| lean over the counter with the rest of the
| girls. The up-to-date Washington girl
| yearns for cooling streams Of rosy soda,
| but her kno Wedge of what is good form
| stands like stern fate, and she turns her
back on the tzg OF the seductive saccharine
soda, and dWellS with vichy, moxie and
! other denominations calculated to make her
| wish she had not been born before the soda
| fashion was out of date. And the boys,
they rather laugh in their sleeves now, for
| no girl has ever yet been found VINO had the
| appalling nerve to face more than one glass
! OF vichy. She will stand up and VOW that
| her thirst is of such elephantine Dimensions
that nothing less than two glasses Of COM
| pound OF soda and syrup will Quench 1t,
| but half way through one glass of vichy she
signs inwardly, and in a whisper asks her
self why they don't serve vichy on the after
| dinner coffee measure.
There are several things that are nice on
which a real oldfashioned girl hasn't for
sworn coaxing little combinations can fasten
| her thirst and know it will be Quenched.
| One of these Is something that is peculiar to
Washington, and IL properly made reminds
one of all the seductive fAvors and slluring
scents OF the Orient. It is marshnellow
| soda. 10 an epicure in soda there is moth
ing TO equal the bouquet Of that conc oction
The Washington girl who wants to find
| something to stimulate her, and at the same
time cool off her palate, and do it effectu-
| ally. turns her attention to the claret
lemonade that soda fountains evolve. There
| is a claret lemonade and claret lemonade,
| but that which comes out Of the fountain is
much more apt to tickle ones palate than
the kind discovered at winter receptions.
With all the magnificent fruit drinks that
| can be concooted by a skillful man. it iB
| queer that some one doesn't start place
! for ladies where they can sit down and en-
| Joy life through straw that does not inA
| ebr1ate. Here is the rule for fruit drink
that is perfectly magnetic. 1t is In season,
| too, which makes the recipe rather appro-
| prlate. Take red raspbeCries, crush them
well till they fall to pieces, mix that with u
| little shredded pineapple and add a fleck of
orange juice and slice OF orange, lot of
cracked ice, some whole raspberries to soil
| on top, little soda water, and flavor the
whole with maraschino. Then add good
| sized square of watermelon, and no matter
| what the depth Of your despondenoy, life
will turn all colors Of the rainbow. 1t is as
! pretty as q picture, and every one who
comes within sight Of 1t will be consumed
with curiosity aud envy. 1t is a work of
art to mako one of these successfully, how
| ever
The new drink is a combination of lines.
| Girls like lines and this catches their tickle
fancy. Phosphates hold their own.
What do girls drinkr repeated a soda
fountain genius "Why they drink any
thing that comes out Of the fountain But
| they run principally to strawberry, lemon
and vanilla. with gushing contingent still
| devoted to the interest of chocolate. They
drink lemon and orange phosphate, but the
| vichy habit is gaining on them. Now vichy
may not taste SO good, but it would be
much better for the girls if they would all
| become devotees of that drink"
! Life without soda would be a positive
| bore. 1t Is necessary to happiness on DAYS
! when ones only desire is to have Green
lands icy mountains ground up into small
! bits and injected into ones veins in
allopathic potions The summer girl with
out the soda fountain would never seem
natural, and every lover of that delightful
species OF the feminine genius will gladly
see the soda girl resume her simple liba-
tions.
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