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A
BACHELOR'S
CUPBOARD
A
Dissertation
on
Drinks
the
best
Irish
whisky
—
those
are
the
best
drinks
that
a
man
can
take
in
this
country,
or
the
old
country
either.
And,
as
a
matter
of
fact,
it's
next
to
impossible
to
get
a
cocktail
that
is
a
cocktail
in
London
or
anywhere
else
on
the
other
side.
**
Bottled
cocktails?
They
are
a
snare
and
a
delu-
sion.
Perfect
cocktails
are
only
made
with
scrupulous
care
in
measuring
the
ingredients.
A
good
many
men
think
after
a
time
that
they
can
measure
drinks
with
their
eye;
but
that
is
what
does
the
mischief,
for
no
man
can
do
that
and
have
his
cocktails
absolutely
uni-
form.
In
mixing
cocktails
I
always
use
a
graduated
measuring
glass
which
I
invented
myself,
and
in
doing
that
I
have
earned
the
reputation
of
always
giving
a
man
the
same
cocktail
he
had
yesterday,
or
last
week,
or
a
year
ago.
The
most
popular
drink
to-day
in
New
York
is
the
*
H.
P.
W.'
cocktail,
which
was
intro-
duced
by
Harry
Payne
Whitney
at
the
Ardsley
Club,
and
later
at
his
Adirondack
camp;
and
the
good
fel-
lows
who
were
initiated
into
its
seductiveness
agreed
then
and
there
that
it
should be
christened
after
their
popular
host,
so
here
we
have
it
:
"
''
There's
a
drink
'
on
the
beam
*
for
you,
lady!*
—Pratt,
THE
"H.
P.
Mix
carefully
in
a
measuring
glass
one
W."'
COCK-
part
of
Italian
vermouth
and
one
part
of
TAIL
jj.y
Gordon
gin.
Add
the
peel of
an
orange
and
frappe.
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