Ice Cream Soda.—For these popular American drinks a proper “shaker” is required, but for the untravelled Briton a very fair imitation can be made in this way: Into a long soda water tumbler put a good tablespoonful of any fruit syrup to taste, and the same of rich vanilla cream ice (if preferred use plain iced cream or crème vierge), some splinters of ice, and fill up with iced soda water from a syphon held very high.