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The Bofo Vivafot's CcmtpaDtOfO
or
HOW TO MIX DRINKS
by
Professor Jerry Thomas
Another turn of the wheel of fate brings
to an end what once more in the exhilirat-
ing presence of a "Blue Blazer" or once
again immersed in romantic nostalgia over
an "Orange Blossom" we now charitably
call "a noble experiment". Let the dead
bury the dead! Let the family bathtub re
turn again to its humble service of housing
the family coal! Let the furtive engulfings
of "unspeakable concoctions prepared by
frowsy gorillas lounging behind the bars of
dingy basement speakeasies, slashing luke
warm ginger ale into dirty glasses half-filled
with raw alcohol "be forever forgotten!"
We are entering upon a mellower and a
more leisured age. With the coming of de
cent ingredients a cry goes up for the grand
old recipes of the royal drink-concocters of
happict days.
Some of us, but not many, still can tell
our grandchildren of the time we sipped a
"Tom and Jerry" at the old Metropolitan
in New York when Jerry Thomas was the
Principal Bartender there.The oldest living
inhabitant may even dimly recall burying
his nose in one of the Professor's Juleps in
the Planters' House in St. Louis. But there
is glory enough for all. The book in which
the Old Master confined so many of his
'' rets THE BON VIVANTS'COMPAN
ION orHOWTO MIX DRINKS,with all
of its 300 or more precious recipes is yours
to own and to use.
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Follow carefully those time-tried direc
tions and drink a toast to the Prince of
Mixers whose genial "What will it be,
gentlemen?" was an invitation to remember
and to cherish.
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