Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-17

l Sidkeu out OF small due DOttleS IN the
! grain and then effervesced by a stream
from one of the spigots are in early morn
| ing demand. 1t is not alone the prosperous
| appearing roysterer who calls for the cool
] ing soda water fountain drink on the morn
| ing after. About half after seven the other
| morning big, drawny, rummy-looking
young man. clad in the dungarees of a
| workingman, walked into an avenue drug
store that boasts an ornate soda fountain
Gimme high, broad orange phosphate,
wit two straws in it, he said to the young
| man behind the counter.
The spigot manipulation put I'D one of that
| Sort crusted over with shaved Ice that
would have put the finishing touches to
| Tantalus. The unsteady looking chap gulp-
| ercising bit of imagination, hear the
| steam escaping from his hot throat as that
| orange phosphate went down. He set the
| empty glass down.
| Gimme another one o. them things" he
said, shortly
He disposed of orange phosphate No 2
| with the same expression of placid ioy
| Ihen he set the glass down and hitched
| his trousers.
where's the money! inquired the young
| man behind the counter, becoming sus-
picious
I'm goin' ter give you a run fer it,'' re-
| piied the man with the two orange phos-
phates under his belt. and he bolted out of
the drug store like a fash The Young
| man behind the counter didn't give chase
He just grinned and said to a man who wa .
| in the back of the drug store. I'm a mark
and a good thing"
A Good Thing to Repeat.
One afternoon, during the first few DAVIS
OF the hot spell in the early part of this
month, large, stout, f1orid citizen was
making his way along F street with more
than ordinary care in the picking out of
MS path. 1t may have been that the heat
was bothering him and rendering his pa
radedevious, but it is more probable that
ne mad partaken of heavy lunch of high
paiis exclusively At any rate, when a
crew OF about twenty little tots of girls
dressed alike for the most part and pre-
ceded and followed by hooded sisters came
toward F street along one of the numbered
thoroughfares, the f1orid citizen seemed to
pc moved to deep feeling of compassion.
He Strengthened himself out took half a
dozen straightaway steps for practice. to
see II he could do it, and then he walked
up to the sister in front of the orphans.
that luncheon
orphans? he inquired, raising his hat
very politely to the sister.
Yes, sir replied the sister
Like soda water, don't thew" asked the
man. keeping himself well in hand
The sister smiled affirmativey.
Just fetch 'em in here, sister," said the
big man. gripping himself in good shape
and not making break in his little part
of charity.
The sisters conferred. and then they fol-
lowed the man into drug store with their
charges. The little ones all looked big-eyed
and expectant when they were lined up at
the soda water fountain. The ladies sitting
at the counter cheerfully resigned their
seats to the tots. The stout man leaned
over to the youth behind the fountain, said
to him, ice cream soda water for the
bunch" threw down three 81 bills, raised
his hat very politely to the sisters and got
outside, where he was Immediately in diff
culties again as to his locomotion, after
having gone through his good-souled little
turn without falter
Winks Mean Nothing.
The soda fountain wink has no meaning
or significance at all in Washington. The
young men who attend the fountains know
what the wink means. but, to use the ex-
preston of one of them, 'It don't CO. New
ertheless, the swift closing of the eye is
often fruitlessly employed on Sundays by
men who are not familiar with the way
things are run down here. There are a few
ncn-acoholic. yet exhilarating, drinks
served out at the soda fountains that are
greatly in demand by men who afraid
of their wives, according to the statements
of several young men in charge of big foun-
tains. The combination of cocoa and calisa-
va seems to be the favorite tpple in this
line, and man who takes a good many of
these in the course of a day freely admits
that their chief virtue consists in the fact
that they cannot be detected on the breath
The comparatively new system now in
vogue at many of the Washington foun-
tains. whereby customers must purchase
checks for soda al the cashiers window
and present the same to the spigot manipu-
latorS before they can be served puzzles
good many of the old-fashioned patrons.
Buy your check at that window, SIR
said one of the fountain attendants in an
+ street drug store to old man who was
hopping his face with bandanna hand
kerchief the other afternoon, patiently wait
ing.
man somewhat testify. do / look If
1 might run away to get out of producing
my nickel?"
Not Always True.
1t is not alone on the street cars that
bevies of beautiful young things in COM
pany are earnestly DESTROYS of treating each
other out of their purses They seem quite
as anxious to treat each other to soda
water After they have all finished their
cooling drinks very slowly of them
rises from her seat and begins to tumble in
her purse.
NO, 1 am going to pay for this says
one
Indeed. you are not" says another, also
fumbling fruitlessly for her pocket book;
DIDN'T I ask you come in with me?"
Let me pay for it, says another girl. the
checks meanwhile resting untouched on the
soda counter. Thus it goes on for some
time, all of the beautiful young things eX-
periencing terrible difficulty in extracting
change from their pocket books unGl one
of them finally picks up the checks with re-
luctance and pays them in at the cashiers
window. amid the protests of all the others
Cost of Presentation.