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MIXED DRINKS.
a knowledge of the art of selecting and combining the
cordials, wines, cremes and liquors is really beneficial
or absolutely essential.
I have been in this line of business many years, an
active and observant worker,commencing my career
with Messrs. Cbapin & Goi*e. Amid the ebb and flow
of life in the palace of conviviality, between drinks, as
it were,I ba-^ taken a great many notes mentally, and
I now commit them to paper to be launched out upon
the sea of literature, a craft bearing the secrets of the
saloon as revealed in book form, comprising the art of
"tending bar," the mystery of mixing drinks, the
etiquette of the saloon, the conduct of bar clerks and
proprietors, the literature of beverages, and many tab
ulated statements and scraps of information never
before published, but very useful to the man behind
the counter.
It is with some feelings of modesty and difiidence
that I approach so important an undertaking,but my
long experience, my profound interest in the matter,
my hearty desire to serve my fellow workers and help
to elevate the tone of a worthy profession, are good
and sufficient reasons for my attempting authorship.
If "tending bar" consisted merely in filling up glasses