Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1895 — ICE CREAM SODA IN LONDON. [ARTICLE]

ICE CREAM SODA IN LONDON.

Has Only Been Recently Introduced, bnt It Has Become a Craze. ' “The Ice-cream soda craze, which American women bave had so badly for the last few years, has broken out In London," said a traveler recently returned from abroad. “It hasn’t got a firm clutch on the English women yet, but it is growing rapidly, and I expect that in the course of a few years it will materially aid in the disappearance of the beautiful English complexion for which women of the old country are famous. An American confectioner is responsible for the production of the ice-cream soda in London. Before he settled in a place in upper Regent street the deadly mixture was practically unknown in that great city. The few English women who had been to this country and tasted it here of course knew what it was, and they lost no time in patronizing the confectioner. “The great mass of women, however, looked aghast at the combination of strawberry syrup, live soda water, and ice-feream. Those who got up enough courage to tackle it were not sorry that they had done so, and the result was that it soon became necessary for other confectioners in the neighborhood to get soda fountains and learn how to mix the drink in order to hold their trade. There are now half a dozen or more places in London where ice-cream soda is sold, and all day the fountains are surrounded by women. The scene reminds one very much of any one of our uptown confectionery shops on a hot afternoon. I expect It will not be very long before the English women will become as devout worshipers at the ice-cream soda shrine as are our American women at the present day. Heretofore the chief diversion of the English woman out shopping has been to eat Ices and cake or drink chocolate, but I predict the entire disappearance of this fashion In a very short time. Icecream soda has never failed to get a deadly clutch on the women of any country where It has settled, and it will be funny if it does not make a complete conquest of the Londoners.”