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daffy-diUys, the olive thingumbobs, the caviar
and chutney willy-wallys are apportioned with
loving care to just those drinks which Heaven
Intended Them For.
3. It
is
a polite book. The complicated prob–
lems of etiquette raised by the passage of the
Eighteenth Amendment are solved here. There
is a formula for disposition of the m.iest who .
arrives cold sober after the party
is
well on its
way. The Bottle for a Certain Purpose
is
described for the benefit of
Him
Who Is
His
Own Worst
Enemy~
.
4. It
is
a humane book. It suggests preven–
tive and remedial
tre~tment
for those unfortu–
nates who refuse to profit by its urbanities. It
tells what to do for the guest who Knew He
Shouldn't Have Mixed His Drinks, for the one
who has a Bad Fall while tap-dancing on the
piano, for the Clumsy Fool who couldn't broil
the goldfish without burning his thumb.
If
these can be saved, it tells how to save therp.; if
they are sodden in their ways, it tells how to
render them innocuous without resorting to the
ungentle expedient of the Left Hook.
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