New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-26

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mands the village ice cream
soda clerk, before his two
sticky glass jars.
"The menu, madam" softly whispers
your waitress at Tuyler's, handing you
long gilt list of ice cream sodas in
every language.
But whether it's College Corner,
Iowa, or Fifth Avenue, New York City,
ice cream soda is the great national
drink-grape juice advertisement; not
withstandng. And not only the great
national drink, but the great American
summer sport, indoor or outdoor, TO
order Have you seen the ice cream
soda fans rushing around town, on
other business bent, perhaps, but
drinking as they go? From Bowery to
Bronx, this huge army, trooping to the
throne of nickel and marble, where for
8 cents, i nickel, one-twentieth part of
q dollar, they are provided with civili-
zation's choicest luxury, the cup that
cheers them on.
And now, just by way Of a hot
weather puzzle, low much ice cream
soda do you suppose the people Of New
York consume in one day? Don't think
in terms of glasses, for there are all
sizes, and the figure comes in quarts,
anyway. And that figure, extracted
from the food division of the city
Health Department, who can only esti-
mate comparatively with the consump
ton of milk, mounts the dizzy height
of 100000 quarts a day-2,2OO,OO
quarts of fzz and foam and syrupy
water leave the light of day and con-
tribute their mite toward making the
summer tolerable to few million peo-
pie. Let's see; how much money is
that? Twenty-Five thousand dollars! A
neat little sum for the hokey-pokey
man and the drug stores. Long will
they prosper.
Now enterprsing people have often
tried to make their own ice cream soda;
perhaps you yourself have mixed up
snow and flavoring, or ice cream and
fruit juice, or milk and strawberries, or
some such thing and sitting on kitchen
tables have tried to look ecstatic over
the cheap and delicious substitute.
But later in the evening comes an ex-
pedition TO the corner drug store
where the man in white squirts and
mixes and shakes and pours until a
beautiful admixture is presented with
a flourish and your nice silver dime IS
eased away from you. So for that rea-
son you just decide TO your own soul
that home made soda water Is delu-
sion. even if the purchased drink is a
snare 70 keep you constantly out OF
change. And you don't try the sub
stitute stunt again-untIl the next
year
Soda water as an institution carries
many a sigh and smile and tear
with it. Lovers keep their tryst over
it's trimming foam; well-intentloned
ladies squabble indecently over the
bill. "My dear. really YOU must let me
settle this, really, my dear; dyspeptic
gentlemen hail IT, with mint. as a boon
10 recalcitrant stomachs; fond mothers
seek it as balm to disgraceful.
screaming children on the street; little
Girls fuss earnestly over the respec-
tive merits of princess Pat Specials"
and Manhattan Maid Flips, oh, the
whole range Of human emotions con-
Germs itself with ice cream soda, and
all ages and sorts are affected by its
condition.
SO as YOU drink your daily pint,
think of all your brothers and sisters
who are drinking theirs, and thus let
ice cream soda be national bond. weld
ing fast toge her all those who partake
Of its sweet and cooling benefits.