1899 The Mixicologist by C F Lawlor

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This is an age of progress. New ideas and new appliances follow each other in rapid succes sion to meet the ever-increasing demand for novel ties, which administer to creature comforts and gratification to fastidious tastes. "The Mixicolo- gist" is intended to meet this demand. It is with feelings of modesty and diffidence that I approach so important a subject, but my long experience, and my hearty desire to produce what I hope will become a standard, 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 filling up glasses thoughtlessly, 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 useless to write on the subject. But I place it among the more elegant 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 which are so much appreciated by gentlemen customers. 5