Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-08
SUMMER DRINKS.

SUMMER DRINKS.
Doctors and doctors books and physi-
| ology classes are quite without avail in
one direction, since the same state of af-
| fairs not only keeps on existing but
wakes in magnitude. Man no longer
lives by bread alone but by some bread
and the rest phosphate; and some ire
sponsible person even suggests that
| woman lives on some pickles and eclairs
as usual and the rest ice-cream soda.
For the popularity of summer drinks
/ has never been so great as it is this
year; neither strikes nor anything pres
ent seems to affect it. 1t is the bright
spot in the drug-man's day at this time
and his store with rows and rows of
/ glasS-StOppered bottles and festoons of
/ sponges and globes of colored water
! would be bowling and unfrequented
! waste without a soda fountain. Qui-
nine and castoria may be popular but
/ they do not amount to much beside the
new creme Yvette and ice-cream shake
/ before whose shrine the civilized world
sits down on a high stool. A man can
| get on without cooks as he demonstrates
when he lunches down town, Meredith to
| the contrary, out he can no longer worry
along without the marble and zine and
loOking-glaSs combination with it's bowls
| of crushed fruit sunk in the table,
which in these days is a small mint for
| the department chef who operates.
| They all agree-the men who conduct
| the soda fountains-th the pair par
excellence are phosphate and ice-cream
soda. Phosphate for the business man
| of course, who tears in on his way to
see a man and has time for nothing.
And in these lemon and orange stand
| first with cherry close third because
a good many object to the unmistak-
q stones which
| is involved.
| And ice-cream soda for the shoppers:
! they cannot resist it and they will not
try.
''Twenty-four cents for two sets Of
! collars, so cents for a stock, % for a
canvas belt and 20 for ice-cream soda,'>
| a woman says who is going shopping
| and she is very likely to add: "Oh,
dear, did want some stamps! But
| haven't another bit of change, so the
| letters will have to wait
There is no haste about the operation.
| 1t is Il twenty-minute rite no matter
how many are waiting, as the man be-
| hind the throne notes despairingly, but
/ there is such obvious enjoyment that no.
! body has the heart to say a word. Straw
berry first in flavor, then pineapple, with
q tie vote for chocolate-that is the way
the returns stand Nectar and cyclamen
and coffee and even California grape,
people have little use for just now.
| Then there are the rest First the
new ones, and they are legion; ice-cream
] shake is one of these and is prepared
| much as the prehistoric millxShake was,
only that it is infinitely better and in
! cidentally about 10 per cent. more indi-
/ gestible than plain ice-cream soda. 1t
/ is high in favor and very good none
! the less, and with it is Charlotte Russo,
! a new 10-cent drink which is a little
/ heavy but fast coming into popularity.
/ Royal cabinet and Calisaya tonic and
/ Clam-Juice shake and Holly fizz are
! some of the rest tried enthusiastically
and usually, pronounced good. kohla
| tonic is another one made from the South
American kohla nut and a little rich for
| general popularity.
| The 5-cent drinks after all are the
/ ones that stand the test, and the new ones
/ especially are continually called fors
Creme de Flip, which is a preparation
/ of carbonated cream, is one of these.
| Among the rest are the egg connections
which only a connoisseur can properly
| produce and which are works of art
when they are handled by an artist.
There are egg pepsin tonics, which are
variations of phosphate, and egg-cream
! and egg-celery phosphate and egg choco-
| late and pineapple egg, and an endless
/ list, closing with that whose musical,
reversed ALTERATION is not needed to as
sure that its popularity will never wane-
| egg-nogg.
| The medicinal properties of divers
summer drinks, so often urged as
| qualifying clause, is really one of the
paradoxes of life. People who drink five
| foaming schooners of soda and phosphate
day DO it rather in brave despite OF
| effect than for gain of good. But there
! comes chocolate bromo and sarsaparilla
phosphate and coca tonic, which is called
admirable for the nerves-aH posing as
medicine bottles and curative in extreme.
| The matted milk preparations are per-
haps as near the mark as any Tor this
sort of thing and there is undoubtedly
albumen secreted somewhere about egg
phosphate, but as nutritive element
and boon to assimilation-that is a
joke.
1t must stand as a melancholy fact to
both vegetarian and cannibal-fOr nor
body ventures a medium when the for
mer man is newfoundland the fact
upon which, out of a universe of pOssi-
bic ones, they must agree: The mental
depravity of the girl who, day after day,
lunches upon an ice-cream soda. The
type is Incredible and therefore exists,
and one has only to follow about o num-
Der Of girl clerks and stenographers be-
tween II and 1 o'clock daily to find this
out. With the hot weather the cafes
lose their charm and meat and short
cake and ham-sandwiches at noon do
not invite. So they file down to the
confectionery and drug stores and vary
the favor from day to day and consider
the cream and eggs and fruit and other
nourshment in the preparation and feel
justified! It is pernicious and destroying
and great many other things, and
| comes perilously near warranting the lit
tie brothers. saw and being one of the
things ''iust like girl" just like some
girls-that is true; and in extenuation
she says naively that it is so good and
so economical, and row and then she
e. hoo,