Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-10-06


There are a half dozen or mere places
at which soft drinks are dispensed,
and they run the year round. There is
long list of iced drinks to be had
at any of the soda fountains ST the
CITY. but coca-cola is the greatest sell
er on the list, it being preferred by
both ladies' and gentlemen 1t is not
only a cooling drink, but is one
of the most invigorating. This
invigorating properly is SAID
to be composed of drink MUIR
ious to the health and mental facul-
ties if ndulged in With any regularity
for any great length of time. One or
the leading soft drink dispensers Ct
the city says that he sells more coca
cola than all other drinks combined.
There is also an impression among
MANY that the soda water used in
the soft drinks is injurious to the
health, but very high authorities en-
the subject say that when properly
made and dispensed are not at all
harmful
ldh9ei IN iIIlpQ' T ISS.
One danger that does lurk in the
II soda fountain is due to impure ice.
In the fountain is located not only the
sirup containers, but the coil Of pipe
Z threugh which the water is conveyed
4 to be cooled.
q There is now, however, strong
tendency to sanitary reform in the
construction of soda water appliances.
A new style of fountain is made which
= abclishes the stationary and invisible
sirup container and restores the silup
to the old-fashioned bottles Of the
fathers. which are stood in pockets
along the frcnt Of the fountain and
from which the sirup is poured in full
+ view of the customer into the glass.
Most All Sirups Impure.
So far as the SODA water sirups are
concerned they ale almost uni
versally impure. In any but the best
places they contain no fruit juices
but are mere limitations. The soda
water supplies establishments do
large business in imitation essences,
composed entirely Of different ethers
and other drugs. There is no shame
O: secrecy about this traffic, but on the
other hand respectable druggists in
& sist that these ether combinations are
ME healthful than the real fruit
# sirups.
great danger grows out of the use
~Io CT.
q These sirups are almost invariably
& made by the dealer clt of concentrated
Il sirups of all flavors, made and sold
{ by the wholesale, by the supplies es-
E tabishments All that is needed to
make them ready fcs use is to mix
Il them with the requisite amount of
simple sirup. This plan obviates to
IL great extent the danger of fermenta-
& ton, and still it is admitted by the
q most experienced soda water men that
II there is 10 soda water sirup that does
u not contain a prcserVative.
ID The preservative used in second
Il rate places is salicyic acid. the eff
B fects of which on the stomach and on
digestion are extremely unpleasant
II and injurious. A great deal of the
# dyspepsia which some people expert
" ence after drinking STA water. es-
I pecially at night which they attribute
& to It's sweetness. is due to the dose Of
q salicylic acid Which they have swal-
II lowed and which totally suspends the
# digestion of the contents Of the stOm-
q ach,whatever they may be, for several
hours.
Soda Water Distinctly American.
s Sc.la water is distinctly an Ameri-
# can beverage. Bottled carbonated
# drinks, such as are known in this eoun-
Il try by the undignified name of pop
Y are common enough in all the Euro
pean countries. but soda water foun-
n tains are almost unknown there. Pos
III sibly there my be four or five of them
& in London and Paris but they are kept
by Yankees exclusively for the delecta-
8 ton of their own countrymen.
~ The reason OF this is that America
II is the only ccflntry in the world in
III which plain water is a respectable
M drink 1t is related that an English
sS man who made tour of France in
XII his own carriage was asked if the wa
Ia ter was good and replied that his
M horses did not complain. 1t is related
III also that an Englishwoman who was
& visiting in America wrote a letter