The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-09
HOT WEATHER DRINKS.
New DecOctions COncOcted at the
Soda Fountains.
Majority Do Not Cool, But
Rather Heat.
Persons Make Mistake With Sugar
or Syrup as Constitutional Parts
Avoid Alcoholic Drinks.


absorbs large quantities of that ensnaring
| compound called the summer drink Hot
weather makes man thirsty and thirsty
man wants a cooling drink. Moreover, he
| wants it favored and he wants it sweet
| womankind is likewise affected-probably
| more SO.
| People resort to the saloon, the drug
| store and the beer garden and think that
! while they are quenching their thirst they
| are also lowering their temperature, but
in this they are sadly deIuded. All alco-
| holic drinks and drinks with sugar or
syrup in them, matter how cold shaved
| ice has made them, are really simply so
much fuel added to the internal fires they
are intended to subdue.
Perhaps the most wholesome of sum-
| mer drinks, pure water accepted, are the
plain mineral waters, un1avored and I'M
sweetened.
Attention was called by a druggist to
one advantage derived from the use OF
mineral waters, and that was that they
supplied the organs of the body with the
| salts necessary to retain them in healthy
condition, salts which for the most part
are thrown off with perspiration through
| the pores of the skin in hot weather.
However, all the doctors know, it is
of no use to preach sanitary gospel to the
ever the parched palate seems to crave,
and take it often he has the price
thereof, reveling in the pleasure of the
moment and reckless of the suffering sure
to follow.
The ingenuity of the 'tbarkeep'' who
runs the soda water fountain has long
| ago been exhausted in inventing new,
mysterious compounds wherewith to be-
guile the summer wayfarer. All the COM
binations of fruits, syrups, phosphates
and carbon waters have been made over
and over again, all that is new the
| names. An old drink under new name
tastes as sweet and every owner of a
soda water layout makes names to suit
himself.
Among what are called the new soft
drinks of the season is '-mintine," the
foundation of which is a syrup made of
crushed green mint and acid phosphate.
Soda water is added, a slice of orange
hoated on the froth and a sprig of mint
stuck into it. To the casual observer a
mintine bears a remarkable family re-
semblance to the mint julep.
Another so-called new beverage bears
the pious title of Cherry Sunday" This
is made of a layer of ice cream, a layer
of crushed and seeded cherries and a
layer of cream.
Plans and specifications for the 'tally
ho'' consist of one egg, syrup made of
lemon, pineapple and orange, a spoonful
of ice cream soda water and Spr1nkling
of nutmeg or cinnamon.
''Delmonicos at g. is an importation
from the effete east. Its component parts
are syrup made of chocolate, lemon,
orange and pineapple, a spoonful of ice
cream and nutmeg on top of the soda.
Not much of variation Improvement
on the tally no.
The polar wave has alluring sound
when the thermometer does not know
whether to stand at 95 or go higher, and
has the slightly wicked spice of "claret
syrup in it's makeup. The other ingred-
| tents are acid phosphate, shaved ice, soda
water and a slice of orange. The polar
wave flows to it's destination through
| straws, and persons who have tried it
say they don't even have to close their
eyes to imagine they are drinking claret
| punch.
But all these strange concoctions are
but devices to trap the young and mex
| perienced. The veteran patron of the
soda fountain takes heed of them, but
orders his soda lemonade or his egg phos-
phate or some other phosphate as of old.
Acid phosphates continue to grow in
popularity and are said to be wholesome.
All the beverages thus far mentioned
have their staunch friends and admirers,
but towering high above, queen regent
over them all, sits her august majesty,
the Ice Cream Soda. Drinks may come
| and drinks may go, but she will stay for
ever. It is a matter of some difficulty to
classify this frothy fayorite of the sum-
| mer girl and her young man. There is
grave doubt whether chunk of ice cream
with a jet of carbonic acid gas shot into
it be properly called a drink. 1t
might be a confection, or a pudding, but
certainly nobody can drink tit must be
eaten with a spoon like mush. 1t doesn' t
make much difference, however, to what
category it belongs, ice cream soda is
far and away the leader among the 'cool-
erS'' of the drug store.
1t cannot be denied that a large portion
of the male population and a few of the
other seek to dodge the extraneous
heat by drinking mixtures more or less
| tinctured with alcohol, and these mis-
guided folk surely make trouble for them
| selves. However disguised, alcohol re-
mains the same and produces the same
effect, which is to heat the blood and be-
| fudd1e the brain.
With the hot weather there comes a
! change in the orders which the bartender
| has to fill. The customer thinks he must
| have cooling drink and a t'long'' one
| and so during the sultry July days and
! nights he abstains from whisky straight
| and gin and bitters and taxes his gas
| tronomic machinery with gin fizzes, rick
/ eys, Remsen coolers, Tom Co1linses, ap-
| polinaris lemonades, with sticks in them.
mint juleps and all sorts of mixtures, in
/ to which ice and seltzer can be incor-
| porated. For all of which he is sorry
| later.
The latest creation to be had at the bars
| is called a 'horse neck" 1t consists
| chiefly of the rind of a lemon, ice and a
| bottle of ginger ale.