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which are virtually the same as highball glasses and can be
called small or large shells. Beer also may be served in
formally in mugs or steins, covered or uncovered, decorated
or plain, or in the stubby-stemmed,tapering, slender Pilsner
type of glasses.
Ale is usually imbibed from tall, slender, very stubby
stemmed or unstemmed glasses which taper outward from
the foot toward the rim and end in a diameter not exceeding
three and one half inches.
Highballs are served in ten-ounce, straight-sided, un
stemmed cylindrical glasses, usually called "shells."
Frappes may be served in sherbet or cocktail glasses,
with straws or glass sippers to imbibe contents.
Pousse Cafe drinks preferably are served in one-ounce
crystal cylinders rising from stems almost as long as the
bowls, or in the slender, small-sized Sherry glasses, so that
the layers of colored ingredients are visible in all their beauty.
Straight drinks of whisky,gin and rum may be served in
two-ounce, flat-bottomed, tapering cylindrical glasses or in
bulging bowl and small mouthed glasses of the brandy glass
type. The straight glasses seldom rise more than three inches
from base to brim,and usually are called "ponies."
A "pony" glass, as previously explained, is standard at a
capacity of two ounces and is virtually the same as the
straight whisky type of glass.
Fizzes and rickeys, noggs and punches, juleps and
cobblers, which,by the way,were greatly relished by Charles
Dickens as a splendid Summer drink because of their re
freshing coolness; smashes, floats, lemonades, bishops and
sangarees, almost automatically suit themselves to the lo to
12-ounce goblet or tumbler, and, very often, to the highball
type of glass. Either is in good forrn.
One almost finds a guide in selecting the glasses to use for
various wines and liqueurs by this simple process of reason
ing: For rare, high-priced, sweet wines use the smaller types
of glasses such as the Sherry glass or even smaller. For
"dry" wines, the medium tulip or wide-mouthed glasses.
For liqueurs the smallest types of glass. For sparkling
wines, wide-mouthed, generous looking glasses.