Show A SIDMICR GIRLS DRINK I Next to ice cream and herself the summer girl loves ice cream soda Ice cream soda is ie i cream soda the country over it Is one of those things that is the same today tomorrow and forever The health department of Washington has had it analyzed by the city chemist It cannot be said that the analysis makes one desire to have two glasses in succession The analysis I showed that the soda ice cream contains con-tains 3505 per cent of solids as follows fol-lows Butter fat 7 per cent mineral matter 103 per cent protoids of 32 per cent sugar 2670 per cent It was flavored with pineapple A sample of pineapple flavoring boiled down was found to contain water sugar and ethyl butrate It was mostly water and sugar there being as much of the latter as will stay in solution Ethyl I butrate is a decoction made by distilling I distil-ling rancid butter with alcohol and sulphuric acid A very little ethyl bu trate will scent an entire house with the odor of pineapples To make the syrup yellow a dash of analine was added The quantity was so small that it was called by the chemists a trace The dye is one of the products of the gas office and is made by the distillation distilla-tion of coal oil A halfpint of water completed the delicious compound The water is frothy by reason of the fact that it is charged under 120 pounds of pressure with carbonic acid gas Chemists may analyze and health departments de-partments declare that ice cream soda is unhealthy but the sweet summer girl will continue to take it so often as opportunity offers And the bad effects will not be noticed if ever until un-til from a summer girl she has developed de-veloped into a chaperon of unknown years |