KEEPING UP THE STANDARD.

Dunstan Times, Issue 784, 27 April 1877, Page 4

KEEPING UP THE STANDARD.

The proprietor of a Broadway soda fountain has had, up to a week ago, a malicious-minded young man in his employ. A month ago when a man, with a white neckie and solemn look, entered and said he would take pineapple snip in his, the young man substituted brandy instead, and was rewarded by hearing the good man say; “ Keep that pineapple up to that standard, and I’ll come over from Jersey at least once a day to patronise you.” He came again and every time he wiped off his chin with a tender motion and benign expression, and whispered that Jersey City soda fountains -were over forty miles behind the times on pineapple snip. But when he dropped in again the other day he found a new young man at the fountain. He wiped his heated brow and called for his old favorite, hut, after a sip or two at the frothy beverage, he set the glass down and inquired if he didn’t order pineapple sirup. “ You did, and you got it,” was the reply. “It can’t be—can’t be, young man. I have had soda water here for the last four weeks, and the young man always drew the pineapple sirup out of that faucet up there.” “ He did ; why, that’s brandy !’ exclaimed the boy. The good man looked at him a long time, a shade of ' sadness gradually stealing over his face and he put down his nickel and went out he said : “ That other young man is on the high road to degradation, and yet I wonder why they can’t make piifeapple sirup with something of that upper faucet flavor to it.”