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Show Front In Soda Water. The druggists who sells soda water for five cents claim that there is no great profit in it becanse ice is so dear, and people peo-ple are demanding everything but i, square meal. They make about three cents a glass on tho plain soda with the old fashioned syrups. The first soda fountain ever put tip ouly bad four syrups lemon, vanilla, snrsaparilla anil coffee and they are the most popala? yet. especially vanilla. Seventy-five ner cent, of tho people e;Ul for vanilla. Five cent soda men who furnish ice cream in the glass uake mighty little profit, as it does not take many glasses to use up a gallon. Then the cream bill is larger than you would think. Still the sales are so great that we are glad as it is. The ten cent fountains make at least eight cents a glass. New York World. |