1908 The World's Drinks and How to Mix Them by Hon Wm Boothby

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WITTY, WISE AND O'l'HERWJ!':E.

Do everything right, then you won't need an eraser. The man who tells you bow much he spends has a bank full of conversation money. It's more of a trick to keep your mouth .shut than to open it. The guy that hollers is like counterfeit money-no good. The world's a poker table, with an awful bunch of four-flushers playing. Here's health to the girl who will drink when she can Here's health to the girl who will rush the tin can And health to the girl who can dance the can can 'Tis the canny toast of an uncanny man.

Since man is dust it would be fine To freshen him up with sparkling wine.

Be merry while you can to-day, There may be no to-morrow. No man so sad who cannot find In ale a balm for sorrow. "The use of reading is to aid us in thinkin g."-Edward Gibbon.

All first-class mixologists keep their Angostura bitters bottle filled up to within half an inch of the bottom of the bitter-tube, so that when they bave .occasion to use this great necessity no more than a drop will ·exude a t each

A good bartender don't have to prove his wisdom. To-morrow may never come; so get busy.

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