1895 The Mixicologist by C F Lawlor

INTRODUCTORY.

T HIS is an age of progress. New ideas and new appliances follow each other in rapid succes– s1011 to ·meet the ever-increasing demand for novel– ties, which administer to creature comforts and gratification to fas tidi ous tastes. " The Mixicolo– g ist" is intended to meet this demand. It is with fe elings of modesty and diffidence that I approach so important a subj ect , but my long experience, and my hearty desire to produce what I hope will become a s tandard, and thus to help 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 fillin g up g lasses thoug htlessly, and pushing them 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 u seless to write on the subj ect. But I place it among the more elegant employments of life, and to be a successfu l bartender r equires the exercise of those finer facul– ties that distinguish the cultured artist from the inexperienced, and which are so much appreciated by gentlemen customers. 5