1906 A Bachelor's Cupboard

A BACHELOR'S CUPBOARD What to Pay for Wines stituted by many, and comes at $1.50 the quart for the best grade. Gins run from 70c. the bottle up to $1.50 for Levert & Wlldeman's best, while Booth's Old Tom gin brings here about 70c. also. Brook's London Cordial gin is a good brand at $1.25 the bottle. Brandies should be bought with care, and " the best's none too good." Columbian 1800 at $7.00 the bottle may be a trifle high for some purses — but oh I to see it's wonderful flame dancing over your coffee is worth sacrificing something else in favor of this. How- may be bought from the old California at $1.00 the bottle all the way up the scale, with De Luze's Blue Seal at $3.75 a most satisfactory medium to strike between the two. Whiskies? I won't presume to specify. Every man may have his own particular brand, but I'll suggest, for an imported Scotch, the Machrinish Niblick brand, bottled in Glasgow. It's quite the smoothest Scotch I ever tasted, and if " Mountain Dew " is anything like that, I'd willingly slumber amid the Scottish hea- ther of a summer's night. The Honourable Artillery Company of London ordered White Horse in large quantities on their homeward voyage — not because one of their number was an owner in the company, but because they liked it best. Black & White was a close second, though, and some affirmed that Dewar's was the " rippingest Scotch ever poured." For Ryes, the best old Blue Grass may be bought at ever, it

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