1895 The Mixicologist (First Edition) by C F Lawlor

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MIS is an âge of progress. New ideas and new appliances foliow each other in rapid succes­ sion to meet the ever-increasing demaud for uovel- ties, wliich administer to créature comforts and gratification to fastidious tastes. “ Tlie Mixicolo- gist ” is intended to meet this demand. It is with feelings of modesty and diffidence that I approacli so important a subject, but my long expérience, and my hearty desire to produce what I liope will become a standard, and thus to lielp my fellow workers, and also to elevate the tone of our profession, prompts the undertaking. These, I trust, are sufficient reasons for my at- tempting to write the following. If to “ tend bar ” consisted only in filling up glasses thouglitlessly, and pusliing tliem out to customers carelessly, it would not be proper to speak of it as a polite voca­ tion and a fine art, and it would be useless to write on the subject. But I place it among the more élégant employments of life, and to be a successful bartender requires the exercise of those finer facul- ties that distinguish the cultured artist from the inexperienced, and whicli are so mucli appreciated b>" gentlemen customers.-

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