1876 The Bar-Tenders' Guide or How to Mix all kinds of Plain and Fancy Drinks by Jerry Thomas

PREFACE.

Ih ikll agta of tlie -world, and in all countrias, men have in* dulgedin"so cial drinks." Tlioy have al ways possess ed themselves ofsome popu lar beverage apart from water and those of the breakfast and tea table. "Whether it is judicious that m a n k i n d should con

tinue to indulge in such things, or whether it would be wiser to abstain from aU enjoyments of that eharacter, it is not our province to decide^ "We leave that question to the moral philosopher. We simply conten that a relish for "social drinks" is universal; that those driiiis exist in greater variety in the United States than in any other country m th» world; and that he, therefore, who proposes to impart to these rm not only the most palatable but the most wholesome characieristcs o. which they may he made susceptible, is a genuine public bene actor. That is exactly our object in introducing this httle volume to the pu ic. "We do not propose to persuade any man to drink, for instance, a puncl^ or a julep, or a cocktail, who has never happened to make the acqti^V anco of those refreshing articles under circumstances calculated to mduc« more intimate relations; but wo do propose to instruct those whose m- timate relations" in question render them somewhat fastidious, m the daintiest fashions thereunto pertaining. "Wo very well remember seeing one day in London, in the rear of e