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All Within Reach of His Arm

A good soda clerk should be polite, neat of person, and dress, and be able to serve drinks with skill and dexterity. Fruit flavors with chocolate, serve drinks with skill and dexterity. Fruit flavors with chocolate, vanilla, sarsaparilla , and ginger, should be drawn as follows: Glass must be perfectly clean; pick it up in a delicate manner; keep your fingers away from the rim; draw syrup into it first, add ice cream if wanted; hold glass up close under full stream until nearly full and then a few dashes of fine stream to finish.

Put spoon into glass, at same time giving a slight stir and serve in holder, seeing that straws are handy and that counter, especially in front of customer, is dry.

Soda, without ice cream, should be drawn with fine stream first and finished with full stream. Still drinks: Syrup first, shaved ice if wanted; place glass in front of customer and pour plain soda into it from another glass, stirring well with spoon at the same time. Serve with straw. Take hold of straw in the center or about three inches from the end of it as you put it into