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BAWLING'S MIXED DRINKS
I see no occasion here to drag in
quotations from the Bible, nor from
that most distinguished of the modern
apostles of temperance, the Rev. D. C.
Parkhurst, of New York,who is known
wherever our language is spoken.
These quotations would fill a book;
but I will confine my efforts to telling
you what to drink, leaving it to your
good judgment when to quit. It is
generally easier to do a thing wrong
than to do it right; and in these days
when the wail of the prohibitionists is
heard all over the land, it is time to
show that the abuse, and not the use,
of liquor is giving these misguided peo-
pio a seemingly just cause for their
complaint.
So, in specifying the proper propor
tion of ingredients to use in concoct
ing any beverage,I have used the word
measure." Ordinarily this would
mean a moderate-sized whiskey glass;
but to the discreet or to the indiscreet
it may be taken as being any old meas
ure from a thimble to a bathtub.
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