Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-07-10
SPEAKING OF DRINKS.
WHAT THEY ARE MADE OF AND
WHERE THEY GO.
COCO COLA Is MANS FLYORITE.
Two Classes of Drinks-Country
People Like Plain, Straight Stuff
City Folks Want Mixtures-A
Catchy Name Pays.

II the ladies only knew how much OF
their lawfully and justly-due pin-money
their husbands spend for the cooling sum-
| mer drinks SO attractively suggested I'M
der whirring electricians at every street
corner, they wouldn't be nearly so meek
in their demands for summer hats and
shirt-waists
| Little wonder II Is that when on a
holiday the man goes out with his wife
and tribe he is SO little disposed to in
| dulge in ice-cream. pineapple-snow. ice
| cream-soda, and so on. He had his
| enough the day before. and, besides, he'll
want a cool drink tomorrow for his
present cents. It is astonishing to know
and see how much men of business, stad
| and steady in their habits, indulge them
selves during business hours in these
luxurious beverages. Many times there
are these hot days when the gentle wife
Is at home or in the country enjoying the
fresh, cool breeZes and signing the ut
most sympathy for her husband, who Is
working so hard in the hot and dusty
city, could the veil of distance be pulled
few boon business friends at the soda
fountain, taking and laughing. and she
and every other care forgotten.
"You women folks don't know every
thing by a whole lot" said a husband
not long ago TO his spouse, and he was
right. The fact u.s. the men fool their
wives half to death, anyway, and the
dear creatures never even suspect it.
WHAT THEY DRINK.
A poll Of the soda saloons discloses the
fact that with the men who don't take
anything stronger, coco-cola is the ia
vorte. OF course, In great demand ara
the cocktails and the everlasting Virginia
mint julop. There are many other cool
concoctions and wines and liquors which
an orthodox individual is not supposed
to know much about These are not sold
generally over the soda counter. A soda
water man said that his customers were
divided into two classes-city drinkers
and country drinkers.
The country folks rarely call for any
thing but soda with essence of lemon
seasoning, or sometimes a milk-shake.
AS for a claret-soda? Never! This, OF
course. excerpts that class of good coun-
try people who come to the town TO paint
II, and never fail to do so.
DEMAND FOR NEW DRINKS.
The problem of the liquid refreshment
mans life is TO find new drinks-not so
much new concoctions as new and catchy
names for the old one. Shakespeare never
asked a more unreasonable question IN
his life than what is there In manner
There are positions Of mator-generals
stats. there are captaincies and heuten-
ancies and money in names. Some or the
ancient drinks are plain soda, fancy"
soda milk shake, limeade, and the nine |
raj waters, which are simply horrid. Some |
of the more recent ones are the phosphate |
get-ups. such as orange and egg-phos- |
pilates. The very latest imported here |
from Baltimore is the Kala pepsin, and |
the old drinks with the new names, sucn |
as the Dewey dram. Shafter snakes, |
Sampson the strong, and Hobson hand |
over. The war has served the maker OF |
tickling fluids a good turn in suggesting |
palatable names. The same principle |
holds good for him that made the enter
prising fakir independently rich and gave |
him q seat amongst the 400 who put the |
head of Weyler at the hole In the canvas, |
where he once had the grinning coon,
and raised the price OF the throw TO y |
cents Where is the man in all broad |
America who would not take two Hobson |
handovers to one "Blanco bumper? The |
man with the snowy apron and smiling |
knows all about this; only ne |
makes the handOver and the bumper by |
precisely the same recipe.