The Savannah morning news., 1900-08-21
DRINKS DRUNK ON HOT DAYS.
TASTES INCLUDE
PRETTY MUCH THE WHOLE LIST.

From Soda Water to Straight whisky
They Run the Whole Gamut, the
SaIOOnkeepers Say-COOIing Drinks
Are All the Go These Days, How
ever-Whisky sours and Gin Fines
Have the Call ut the Bars While
at the Soda Stands.
What do Savannahians drink these
days." The question was put by AIoru-
ing News reporter TO a barkeeper in one
of Savannahs largest saloons Every.
thing" he replied, land anything. Just
make out a list of all the popular drinks
YOU know especially those containing ice
and sugar and a little lemon. and wait
here a while and you will see them all
called for. OF course the most popular
drinks now are the long and cooling sort.
Whisky sours appear to have the cali
with me, with whisky coolers close sec
ond Next to these come the gin mix
lures Gin seems to be coming into great
er popularity as drink and gin rickeys
and gin fixes are in great demand Cock
tails are rarely called for these days.
They are too heating and too exhilarating,
and if there is anything the wise drinker
wants to avoid these days it is getting
exhilarated He wants something cooling
and soothing Still there are a great
many people who stick to plain whisky.
They contend that it is the safest
and most reliable drink, and that
used with moderation the user is
less liable to feel the effects, either
of the drink or the heat. And most of
them seem to stand up pretty well under
it, too Mixed drinks, the old bows claim,
are bad on the stomach, and the stomach,
they say is the chief thag to be looked
after this weather. / don't know but what
they are right. But mixed drinks are all
the go. and the bartenders get plenty of
exercise shaking up the connections of ice
and lemon and sugar and whatever goes
with It,"
How about soft drinks?" the saloon
man was asked.
Soft drinks are in big demand just
now" he replied. Our biggest call in this
line. of course, is for jemonades, and we
make these plain. with claret Arondack
or Apolinaris water. Soda, sarsapariila,
and such other 'bellywash,' as we call it,
is not in much demand with us except as
II CiIte6i 1OT SOlli6tillilS SlIOAlB6l' we nav e
a pretty fair demand for buttermilk, and
if the supply were more regular the de
mand would doubtless increase. Occasion
ally a customer takes glass of
sweet milk, and we use up fair
amount of this fluid in making milk
punches. but this drink is rather heat
ing such weather as this"
Between the saloons and the drug stores
it is safe 10 say that the average Savan-
nathan gets outside of as much fluid re-
fTeshment in a day the average in
habitant of any other city in the country.
While the patronage of the saloons has
not fallen off to any appreciabe extent
this weather, that of the soft drink places
has increased immensely. The patronage
of these latter places is not altogether of
the gentler sex by any means In fact,
fully half the patronage of the soda water
stands comes from the men. There is
such a variety of these drinks that 1t
would be impossible TO enumerate them
all, there are few we-known favorites
which monopolize the attention of the
crowd Coca Cola easily heads the liS-.
After this come the phosphates, chiefly
lemon and orange The mineral waters
are in great demand and now that Lii
thia, Suwanee and Arondack can be OBJ
tained at the leading stands fresh from
the ice and all you can drink for a
nlCkel, tno popularity Vi liiSSc WatCiS -
rapidly increasing. In fact, there would
seem to be a large number of people here
who drink nothing else judging from the
frequency which they may be seen at the
various stands The limeade is a popular
and healthy drink which is in big de-
mand at the stands and seems to have
outclassed the lemonade in public favor.
Whether it is wise to get outside of so
many drinks, soft or the other kind on
a ho< day is a question which every one
should decide for himself or get his doc
tor to decide for him. That they are
temporarily refreshing is true, of course,
but the ultimate benefit admits of some
doubt With such weather as prevails
now the liquid refreshments which so
down ones throat are distilled very short
ly through the pores of the skin and the
more one drinks the more one perspires.
The temptation to drink however is al
most irresistible, and as the doctors say
perspiration is healthy, 1t is doubtless all
right