The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-06-12
SUMNER DRINKS:

SUMNER DRINKS:
Doctors and doctors, books and physi-
ology classes are quite without avail in
one direction, since the same state Of afr
fairs not only keeps on existing. but
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. meyer been SO great az it is this
year; neither strikes nor anything pres
ent seems to affect it. 1t il 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 q soda fountain. QuI-
nine and castOrla 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. Meridith 10
the contrary, but he can no longer worry
along without the marble and zine and
lOOking-glass combination with its 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-that 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 man and has time for nothing
| And in these lemon and orange stand
| first with cherry a close third because
a good MANY object to the unmistak-
able suggestion of cherry stones which
| is involved
| And ice-cream coda for the shoppers:
they cannot resist it and they will not
try:
| ''Twenty-four cents for two sets of
| collars, so cents for 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 I
haven't another bit of change, SO the
| letters will have to wait"
| There is no haste about the operation
1t is a twenty-1Binute rite no matter
how many are waiting. us the man be-
! hind the throne notes despairingiy. but
there is silch obvious enjoyment that no.
body has the heart to say word. Straw
berry first in flavor. then pineapple with
a, tie vote for cbocolate-that is the way
the returns stand. Nectar and cyelamen
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-rream
shake is one of these and is prepared
much as the prehistoric nlilkshake was.
| only that it is infinitely better and in
cidentally about 10 per cent more jndi-
gestible than plain ice-creani soda. 1t
| is high in favor and rery 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
general popularity:
The 5-ccnt drinks after ali are the
ones that stand the test. and the new ones
! especially are continually called for:
Creme de Flip, which is a preparation
of carbonated cream. is one of these
| Among the rest are the egg connections
| which only a connoisse1r can properly
| produce and which are works of art
There arc 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-
| ceg-nosg.
The medicinal properties of divers
| summer drinks, SO often urged as a
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 promo and sarsaparilla
phosphate and coca tonic. which is called
admirable for the nerves-ali posing as
medicine bottles and curative in extreme.
The matted milk preparations are per
| haps as near the mark as any for this
sort of thing and there is undoubtedly
albumen secreted somewhere about egg
phosphate, but as 4 nutritive element
and boon to assiulilation-that is
joke.
1t must stand as a melancholy fact to
both vegetarian and cannibal-for no.
body ventures medium when the for
mer man is mentioned land the fact
upon which. out of a universe of posi-.
BILE 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 a 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 flavor from day to day and consider
the cream and eggs and fruit and other
nourishment in the preparation and feel
justified! 1t is pernicious and destroying
and a great many other things and
comes perilously near warranting the lit
tie brothers saw and being one of the
things Just 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
economies further and lunches on a
phosphate. All of which makes one re-
member a certain interjection of little
observer of some mortals and to name
the two great philosophers of the world
Plato and Puck.-Z. in Evening Wiscon-
sin.
Mothers Weakness.