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COCKTAILS
The BonVivant's Companion
lobowlsof Punch at 2S. 6d. each
1.50
6 half pints of Rum at 7Vz d. each
5.7.i
I pint of Wine
1.6
After the election was over,Washington wrote Wood that "I
hope no exception was taken to any that voted for me, andthat all
were alike treated, and all had enough. My only fear is that you
spent with too sparing a hand."
Washington resigned his command December 23rd, 1783, and
went back to Mount Vernon. To his friends he offered unpreten
tious hospitality. "Mymanner of living is plain," he said. "A glass
of wine, and a bit of mutton are always ready, and such aswill be
content to partake of themare always welcome."
CHIEF JUSTICE MARSHALL
Chief Justice Marshall was brought up on Federalism and
Madeira, and he was not the man to outgrow his early prejudices.
The bestMadeira in those days waslabeled "The Supreme Court."
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
No one was better disposed towards a moderate conviviality
than Benjamin Franklin. In that old house onHigh Street where
helived anddied, there remains now, in the possession of thePenn
sylvania Historical Society, that delightful punch-keg that rolled
so easily from guest to guest, and which carried the liquor so gen
erously around Franklin's board. A curious httle keg this, pretty,
portly, and altogether unlike other punch bowls leftus from Colo
nial days. Among the china was a fine large jugfor beer, to stand
in the cooler. Franklin'swife was frugal, and it pleased him to set
aside her customary frugality on the blithesome occasions when
the punch-keg went rolling round.
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