1931 Shake'em Up a Practical Handbook of Polite Drinking (3rd printing)

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COMMISSARY

The following list represents an Ideal and

should be treated, accordingly, with respeaful

insouciance. However, admonitiops to h4s–

bands to "Just run down to the grocery, dear,

and get this little list of things-it's right in

the same block," have often resulted in Broken

Necks and the inevitable pause in the party

while the body is pushed down the incinerator.

Real Hostesses

will

feel too strongly the

duties of hospitality to wish to miss parties on

this account, partjcularly if Pater Familias finds

it necessary to give most of his attention to The

Blonde, and neglects the glasses.

Even should Pater Familias not resort to this

justifiable violence, adequate supplies in the

kitchen will simplify the Hostess's labors and

enable her to catch an occasional

the

guests, and sometimes even to take a drink.

Let each Reader, therefore, edit this Commis–

sary List temperately; accordmg to her neces–

sities.

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