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THE GENTLEMAN'S COMPANION
THE JAMAICAN BLACK STRIPE, another
lliARTENER
from that
TROPICAL PARADISE, that MAY BE SERVED either HoT or CoLD
If
served cold: work
2
tsp strained honey into
1
tbsp boiling water
until well dissolved. Add
I
jigger Jamaica rum, shake with cracked
ice, pour into stemmed cocktail glass and dust with nutmeg. Fur–
nished us by Emerson Low, Esq., gentleman, student, Rhodes Scholar,
author and delightful dilettante, who, now that he is married and
possessed of child and responsibility, is not nearly so diverting, it pains
us to say.
THE BAVARIAN "BRIDEGROOM'S CUP," a MEMORY from the
GAY DAYs when THERE WAS TIME in which to LIVE a LIFE-& LAUGH,
&
LoVE,
&
SING,
&
DANCE, in MmnLE EUROPE
We have a lovely friend, a girl, who married a Bavarian "von" who
is our idea of what a "van" ought to be; and at their wedding
in
New
York he introduced us to this delightful drink-which is doubly nice
on a hot summer's day.... Take the biggest crystal goblet we can
find, then chill it. Fill it
1/3
full of ice and turn in
Yz
bottle of good
Rhine wine-well chilled-and
1
jigger of
kirsch.
Stir for a moment
with a silver spoon, then garnish with a handful of crushed lightly
sugared ripe strawberries-also chilled; only put them in with a spoon
-3 tbsp total. Bedeck with a sprig of green mint, if in the mood.
There we have it.
THE BROKEN SPUR,
q.
CLASSIC FouND in the PERGOLA of LEON
ELLIS, 2d SECRETARY of the AMERICAN LEGATION in PEKING, in the YEAR
1932, and before a BUFFET DINNER of UTTER CHARM
Imagine Peking then, just before Japan had screwed up brass
enough to defy Britain, and the rest of Europe's Legations, and ours
too by the wayl-and had quietly occupied most ' of Imperial North
China while everyone sat back like a lot of spineless ostriches with
head in sand, and another lot of spineless men who violated their own
sacred signatures behaved like a lot of schoolboys playing grownup
around the League of Nations table at Geneva throwing dice with an
unfortunate and
colorado maduro
gentleman named Haile Selassie,
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