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COMES THE DAWN
That drink is deceptive was noted many,
many evenings ago, so that it is not necessary to
do more here than call your attention to the
fact that even the soberest of men will some–
times wake up and wonder what hit him after
the second highball.
If,
after a long sleep, he
judges that it was the Himalaya Mountains, he
had better take two aspirin tablets with a table–
spoon of hot water, chewing the tablets before
swallowing.
(I know it's nast;, Mama's
Precious, but so is bad old headache.)
After a lapse of fifteen or twenty minutes, he
should take, slowly, the following breakfast:
1.
A Little of the Hair of the Dog that Bit
Him.
2. One pint of milk.
3. A half-pint of sauerkraut or tomato juice.
4. A cup of black coffee to which has been
added one teaspoon of spirits of am–
monia.
If the case is not so serious, consisting merely
of a slightly dazed feeling and a suggestion of
a headache, after some Fruit Salts, or other mild
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