Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-06
POPULAR DRINKS
THE FOUNTAINS ARE VERY BUSY
THESE HOT DAYS.
LOCAL DISPENSER GIVES VIEWS
The New Drinks That are Now the
Fad and the Many Names They are
called-Beveraaes Cool and Re-
freshins Quench the Thirst.

Take a teeth tickler," suggested a
local dispenser of soda water smiling
ly with the air of one who offers kind
ly advice in the spirit of good fellow
ship. The individual with a feverish
thirst, famed himself with his pana-
ma and inspected YEARLY the row of
coolers as he looked, the suggestive
titles, the rhythmical puff from the
electric fans and the chick, chick of
ice was magic and soothed and com.
forted him. He took the "ticller."
There is much that a dispenser of
beverages has to do, other than his
principal duties of dishing out drinks,
he must "size up" his customer and
when sport struts in, he must sug-
gest 'Satan's Delight" or Poker
Frappe," and when a person of an
opposite occupation comes in, he
must say, will you have a sundae
or frozen phosphate or some sug-
gestion of a drink that is given a
name which has sound of proprie-
ty in it. The many connections which
are obtainable in the different places
tnat have soda water fountains are
indeed solace to the warm multitudes
on the street daily.
When Name Counts.
If good old Mr.. Shakespeare, or even
Bacon, were to step into a modern
drug store and try an adventure with
the soda fountain, they would un-
doubtedly revise that ill-considered
passage in their works which de-
mands what is in name. For SIRE
bacon my be considered saying, three
several draughts have we introduced
to our outlets and they are naught
save vapor, sweetness and encarmin-
ca water, and the one thing which
made them strange and unlike broth
ers was the name"
Since the days of Jeffersonian SIM
plicity, when to quote from an arti-
Gle in Harper's Monthly in 1872, "the
fiavors most generally used are lemon,
strawberry, pineapple, vanilla and
ginger" there has been great change
and broadening in the nomenclature
and chemistry of the soda water bus
mess. Now every onyx fountain and
several square yards OF the wall space
on either side of it are covered with
drink names, beautiful and idealistic
Woloo WAliA Wouiu navy pSSA1 SUI Y VI
a department in Mr.. Webster's COM
prehensive dictionary of the Ian
guage had they not been conceived
too late. With a few simple ingred-
tents to build on the soda artists have
improvised, cribbed, joined and been
inspired with various words for the
naming of the hundred and half
drinks in which they deal. For in
cfo ~ no cr,1,o CIV In oh
of soda from the fine stream and some
ice cream when combined may form
either one of two enhancing polysyl-
tables, all depending on whether the
first, second or third ingredient goes
names which are used are nationally
familiar, others remain in sectional
use, while still more are confined to
the house where they originated.
Most of these names spring from the
literary department which is well de-
veloped in the minds of luccessful So
da clerks; others are due to some
popular book or fashion and still 9TH
ers come from the manufacturer of
some new extract or tonic.
How They Originate.
Suadaes are made and eaten but no
one knows who was their inventor or
what the word means. 1t is yariously
spelled sundae, sundea and sundee
and is said by some to mean mixed
and to have originated in Chicago
Other experts deny this. A breezy
stimulating drink which contains malt,
ed milk is abtainable. Navarro" is
the name for another package of car
bonic acid gas done up in favored wa
ter and cream. st. Julian punch, egg
agnostura, grape cobbler, orange spray,
coffee frappe, ambrosia flipp, chocolate
bousna (Which is another way of say
ing frappe). Queen Bess, "a fruit lem.
onade), Tacoma, egg la mode, New
York beauty, Satan's delight, Delmon-
leo flipp, Scotch rose, fautaema, Man
haitian cream, creora puff, rospho roy
al, Whiterock lemonade (Which is
founded on lithia water), these are Sc.
lections from the list of new" drinks
A young man may now ask young
woman to have cold bird with him
and yet not transgress the laws Of
what is fitting for the recipient Of a Sit
wage, for the cold bird that he meant
can be had at the soda fountain fol
10 cents Then there is another concoc.
ton which is dubbed "a Dream but
it would puzzle anyone not tea faster
to tell wherein the latter, the "cold
bird" and a "Satan's delight" differ
from the short lemonade.
Drinks Have Their Day.
Drinks catch on and become the
rage" said local soda-miXer, "ant
after a while lose out to some othel
kind The nut and cantaloupe sundaes
are about the leaders now, and vol
have no idea how many We sell. The
sundae has been in now about three
years. Root beer is another thing
which seems to hit the arid spot this
summer. think the stems which
We're introduced last summer have
something to do with this, especially
when they are kept in sight in shall
of pineapple and a cherry to top off.
fine and cool and people ask what we
serve in them. Some places they sci
/ mora rnpt hoar than anythtY1o also