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CATCHING UP
If
one or more of your guests arriyes after
the others are already playing London Bridge or
Patty-cake, snake them to the kitchen and get
them off to a good start.
If
you attempt to do this by mere volume, the
effects will be lamentable. The mechanisms
which are supposed to transport the re.fined
alcohol to the brain will at first merely curl up
with low moans. Later, bucked up by the sur–
rounding stimulant, they will awaken and be–
gin functioning in a big way. At about the
time you bring on the roast, the belated guest
will begin jumping up and down on the ceiling
in a playful manner.
The thing to do is to give the late-comer a
moderate dose but in a heated form. Heat acts
on the villi and such things like an air-mail
stamp. Hence the following:
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