1914 Rawling's of Book Mixed Drinks by E P Rawling

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BAWLING'S MIXED DRINKS

I see no occasion here to drag in quotations from the Bible, nor from that most distinguished of the modern apostles of temperance, the Rev. D. C. Parkhurst, of New York,who is known wherever our language is spoken. These quotations would fill a book; but I will confine my efforts to telling you what to drink, leaving it to your good judgment when to quit. It is generally easier to do a thing wrong than to do it right; and in these days when the wail of the prohibitionists is heard all over the land, it is time to show that the abuse, and not the use, of liquor is giving these misguided peo- pio a seemingly just cause for their complaint. So, in specifying the proper propor tion of ingredients to use in concoct ing any beverage,I have used the word measure." Ordinarily this would mean a moderate-sized whiskey glass; but to the discreet or to the indiscreet it may be taken as being any old meas ure from a thimble to a bathtub.

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