1898 Mixology; the art of preparing all kinds of drinks ..

HAYWOOD'S MIXOLOGY.

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of your frequent visitors and politely asking those of whom you have had no opportunity of learning. Keep thoroughly posted in your business and in this way you will not fail to ac- quire popularity and success.

THE ORIGINAL BAR-TENDER.

Whence comes the bartender? The modern brewer of the cup which cheers and sometimes inebriates is a thing of beauty and a joy forever by natural in- heritance. The original bartender was the most beautiful boy ever born. Jove selected him from all beings of his celestial realm to act as his cupbearer. Ganymede took tp his office kindly, and from that day his successors have grown in num- bers, in power, in beauty and in the potency of the touch with which they inspire their beverages.

THE LITERATURE OF DRINKING.

The literature of drinking has yet to have justice done it by a master hand, but the subject is well worthy of research. Whatever author assumes the task he will find his adjectives exhausted when he comes to treat upon the glories with which the American bartender has surrounded the achievements of his art. Had the cocktail, which he alone can brew and to which he gave existence, been known to the ancients, Ancaeos might have defied prophecy, and the world would not to-day have, as an oft-quoted saying, "There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip." The legend is a familiar one. After Ancaeos had succeeded Typhys as the pilot of the Argonauts, he was told by a slave that he would never live to taste the wine of his vineyards. When a bottle made from his own grapes was set before him, he sent for the serf to laugh at his prognostication. The menial, however, made answer, "There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip." At that moment a messenger rushed in and announced that a wild boar was laying waste the vineyards of Ancaeos. The latter thereupon hastily set down his cup, went out against the boar and was killed in the en- counter. If it had been an American cocktail which Ancaeos