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have
lli
·covered something of int ri nsic
merit.
In this age of g reat prog ress and
many kinds of drinks, it seems to have
become the mission of almost every
dilettante to proviL1e a n ew 1hink
f~r
every other dilettante, and the r esult i s
that w e are lite1·ally entangled in
n:cshes of inextricable complication.
'fhe experienced old bar man is heart–
sick. The young man-the novice-is
dismayed; but n either of them would
te at all surprised to see, a t any mo–
ment, a truck drive up a nd clump in to
their receiving rooms a treatise on
mixed drinks quite as voluminous and
ponderous as the Chicago City Direc–
tory .
It
is safe to state that not
1
drinker
out of
100,000
could, for a lotter y
capital prize, enumerate 50 modern
drinks outside of the straight drinks.
l3ut do not be dismayed nor discour–
aged. This little volume contains a ll
the drinks that you will ever have
occasion to u se and the most of you
will never have a call for ·the great
majority of these ; but they a r e all
here,
if
needed, a nd contained in small
space.
After all, most of these modern
drinks, outside of the old standards,
are only slight variations from t he
parent mixture, ancl are obtained by
the addition of a dash of this and a
dash of that, etc., ancl they arc
ephemeral.
''Yesterday 'twas sherry, now
Tokay,''
''And every dog he has his day. ''
In this work is given r ecipes fo r
making drinks in bulk, for parties, r e–
ceptions, etc.
Any bar man who can mix the indi-