1935 So Red the Nose or Breath in the Afternoon

nniIVKMIVG XOTES White Lady Cocktail, since "it is already the best cocktail made." ★ One of tlae most amusing letters and least drinkable cocktails cornes from H. L. Davis, author of the Harper prize-winning novel, Honey in the Horn. It is not recommended for "Chil- dren, expectant mothers and people who cry easily":

Hir.H l'ROOF RUM (ot lenst lo years old) (Abolit 2 Beer Steins) DARK STRAiNi:n iioNEY (ttie tkin, runny kind) (A Tin Dipperful, and a Llttle Over) FRESH HUCKLEBERRIF.S (çrushed tO a pulp) (A Tin Dipperfnl) MOUNTAIN ASH BERRIF.S (CTUshed) (s Tablespoons; be carefui with 'em, boys) BEST BLACK CUNPOWDER—To TaSte

"Mix (at room température) and stir savagely until it is no longer streaky in color. Each drink should be served with a toothpick impaling a dead bumblebee, a dead yellow jacket and a dead wasp. These are supposed to be eaten first to give the revelers a notion of what lies in store for them." Davis says that this drink is "Authentically American," and that he can furnish documents to prove it. "Its first appearance in our history is in the Adventures and Explorations of Captain Boyineville, as edited by Washington Irving and published about 1839. The captain originated the décoction somewhere on the headwaters of the big Missouri about too years ago for an emergency entertainment. He was confronted unexpectediy with a party of Hudson Bay Company trappers headed for a fur country that he. wanted the first crack at himself. Something was required that would take their minds from the cares of business." It appears that what the captain concocted was a Honey in the Horn Cocktail, as described above, and that the Hudson Bay's chief was "superhumanly joyful ail night and superhii- manly and titanically doleful all the next week. For ten days afterward, tradition tells us, he had only to hold his nose and agitate himself slightly to become instantly too drunk to sit on a horse."