The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-08-18
Sunday a Favorite With Many
Different Names.
ICE CREAM SODA THE STANDBY.
More and More Lemonade Is Drunk
Mint Phosphate New and Salts
facrory-A New Orleans Deli
cacy Has Great Run.

matinee girl is drinking soda water at the
tseassore, or in the mountains, or II, by
uEiucky chance, she Is spending the sum-
mer III the city. she has found some place
near her uptown home. where she can get
good sofa. and she has educated the soda
water dispenser of that particular place
snto an understanding of her peculiar
taste Less aristocra;ic inaidens and per-
spring shoppers of ali ages do patronize
the downtown soda fountains iaTishiy-: but
It is the man who is the mainstay of the
soda water business in New York at this
season.
The man aren't very strong on ice cream
soda They count the fact unto themselves
for righteousness: but, in reality. It isn't
q matter Of principle. A man will expert
rnent with Welsh rabbits and other uniloly
connections. in the wee sma, hours. with
out the slightest consideration for his
stomach He draws the line at ice cream
soda, not because. as he usually contends,
it Is enough to ruin any digestion, but
merely because he doesn't like it. Most
of mans morality may be traced to that
same excellent basis. The men drink phos
pilates and lernona1es, and call for bromo
settlers will, suspicious fervov. and take
kindly to calisaya, AMI k6la and other
pick-me-ups which seem 10 be bbnlous
Postscripts. rather than square drinks.
Then, too. the men are addicted TO soda
that must be drunk in seclusion. in order
10 obtain its true flavor. and whose con-
sumption requires retirement behind closed
doors. When soda OF this variety is, on
rare occasions. sold over the counter, and
drunk in the open, the drinkers face as
tsunes an expression Of satisfaction and
well being beside wafch the ice cream soda
expression of the matinee girl is sullen-
There is, apparently. no feminine wink
that corresponds TO the masculine drug
store wink. although the perennial tastes
of hard drinking among New York women
wollia lead ene To look for such a develop
ment.
The fact Is. said a soda water clerk
who was questioned about the matter,
you couldn't trust 4 woman or tell when
she would make a, break and give the
whole thing away We've had plenty of
women come in and buy little bottle of
whiskey or brandy, at the other counter,
and then walk over here, get a plain soda,
and drink the two together. That's one
way OF getting around the difficulty.
CHOCOLATE A E,ANORITE.
Coca wine, calisaya and ginger are fav-
orites with women. VINO in this day of
nerve tension show deplorable tendency
to depend upon stiTnulants. in order to
keep going; and, on enc day last week in a
Pharmacy MOTEL for its soda fountain, for
Iy-two glasses Of broIno settler were sold
TO women; but it is a reasuring fact, in
fegaTE to the eternal feminine, that choc-
olate ice ,ream soda Is still the staple ar
ficle of diet Twenty chocolate ice cream
sodas are sold 10 one drink of any other
kind at the soda fountains. Strawberry
ace Cream is n good second. and after those
two come the rank ana tiie. with settler
lemonade making a fair run for place 1t
seems, according 10 expert testimony, that
more lemonade is being sold at the soda
fountains this season than ever before
The sellers do not pretend to explain it.
That is problem for the philosopher
Perhaps the American public, IN spite of
anti-;lnaerialist testimony to the contrary,
Is growing wise with age. Buckwheat
cakes are langIishing: and, if lemonade
eupplants ice cream soda, dyspepsia may
have 10 seek fresh fields AMI pastures new.
To offset the rational lemonade tendency,
there are innInerable signs of persistent
6eprarity. Lemonade is the fashionable
drink but the young thing who will be in
the swim, and yet considers il a departure
from principle and precedent TO drink any
thing wholesome, appeases her conscience
by having vanilla ice cream put in her
lemonade.
ut began just about a month ago" said
clerk at the most popular soda fountain
In the city. Il don't know who started it,
but all of a sudden the fad was here,
and the girls We're calling for lemonade
with ice cream in II. We We're worried at
ffst-thought the girls would be sick be-
fore they could get out of the shop and
would make a sort of McC;urISs of the
place-but bless you, ii seemed to agree
with them. The same girls come back for
the drink day after day. and don't show
any signs of i'll health, so we've stopped
WORRYING
what's Sunday" asked the reporter.
searching for light on feminine taste
A Sunday? Wei, that's something that
Started in Chicago; but every town, has a
different name for it. It's only ice-cream
with fruit syrup poured over IL but 1T has
moro names than a Spanish baby The
girls cala it Sunday ard White Wings and
1iohsea and Sunshine and Dewey. Now.
Whenever any one comes IL, and asks for
something we never heard Of W., serve a
Sunday, and nine times out of ten it's the
right thing
CAFE FRAPFE.
Cafe frappa and the frappe are having
an unusual popularity this summer. and
are sold at most of tho soda fountains
There should be no soda in them, but iced
coffee or tea is sugarea. creamed and
served in long glass with two or three
inches OF whipped cream a; tia top Mint
phosphate is a new thing at some Of the
soda fountains. To any one who has
hnown the deiectable MINI. juep. mint
phosphate Is q hollow mockery- suggesting
a,s: not fulfilling Eiysian possibilities. Sill
leaving mint juier out of the question, the
phosphate deserves a good word on its own
merit; It is made by mixing plain phos-
sihate and, presumably. creme da nenthe
though about that creme dc menthe the
discreet clerk maintains q cheerful 81
fence. The mixture Is put IN claret cup
glass full of cracked ice, a silica of lemon
Is added, aud handful of fresh mint
sprays is bruised and tucked into the top
Of the glass. The drink looks deiiciously
worth considering on q sarra day Yet it
worth considering IN a torrid day Yet it
can be drunk IN the oaor of sanctity sur
rounding the soda fountain where winks
are OF no avail.
Z ii seems rather an odd thing that no en-
terprising New Yorker has imported the
soda fountain triumph through which a
New Orleans druggist has made a for
tune. Several years Dgo when the iesiti-
mate soda-water business seemed TO be
lansuishing and the druggists fountain
receipts We're falling off. he sat himself
down and evolved a new idea. Delicious |
little nutmeg melons are cultivated near
Sew Orleans. The druggist bought case |
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