1906 A Bachelor's Cupboard

A BACHELOR'S CUPBOARD Correct Wines for all Occasions

— and lemonade glasses for those

his college days

of

mixed " ladies' delights," etc. The bachelor who has a menage will have his side- board well stocked with the necessary decanters, cor- dial sets, etc., but for the impecunious bachelor or he who lives in his studio nothing more handy was ever invented than the " Bachelor's Cabinet," with its sft- companiment of decanters, mixing glasses, tiny ice-box, and all the requisites for a convivial evening at home. Even when one is reduced to standing his beer bot- tles outside on the window ledge to cool and has to dust furtively the steins he has taken from their hooks, he need not deplore the lack of more expensive bever- ages or the absence of cut glass and champagne. It's not so much what one drinks as with whom and where he drinks it.

" You look at what I drink, and not at my thirst/*

How often does a man hasten to ** put

ON

SERVING

" when a friend drops in of an

beer on ice

BEER

evening? cus- tom in the Old World, where one frequently sees the German sit for a few moments with his hand about his glass to bring the contents to the proper tempera- ture before drinking. Beer should not be served very cold, as excessive chilliness destroys the fine flavor it should have and renders it injurious. Beer should not be served di- i66 this is contrary to Yet