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WITTY, WISE A1''D OTHERWISE.
There's always a bunch to boost you,
While at your bank i;oll they glance;
But you'll find them all gone at the cold gray dawn,
When the fringe shows up on your pants.
-With apologies to Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Nev·er use a lemon knife without wiping it immediately afte.rward. First–
class bartenders neveI neglect this important rule.
A COURTEOUS RETORT.
Just say to all smart booze clerks who question your sense,
And .hold all your wisdom at naught :
You've been forced to turn knowledge away every night,
And yo11've standing . room only for thought.
"Why," thunders the New York
Mail,
which used to print a Bible te:i.:t at
the head of its editorial page every day, "does the bartender put the change
on the only wet spot on the
bar ~"-Syraciise
Post-Standard.
Tbere are two ways of acquiring a knowledge of mixology–
By experience and by reading.
By reading one gains the experience of others, and learning by experience
takes a lifetime.
The word "brut" as applied to drinkables means that no artificial sweeten–
ing has been resorted to.
The profession of mixology
Is an art that's being lost;
That's why this treatise is published,
Quite regardless of the cost.
Regardless, too, of other things,
For facts one cannot smother·
But what is gospel truth to one'
Seems hot air to another.
There'll rise occasions every day
When it'll be up to you
To
p~ruse
the pages of this work
And find things that you should do.
IF YOUR CHRISTIAN NAME IS COHEN.
If
you don't drink or care to smoke,
Or eat free lunch and pickles;
And some old friend is treating you,
Why! Just take a glass of nickels.
JAMES
MONTGOMERY FLAGG .