Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-03-27
Drinking Men.

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Eous leaned gracefully over the bar
turing the slack hours of busine ss, the
,ther day. and discussed his customers,
with q reporter.
81 rotice that men nowadays order
exactly what they want, he said, toy
ing gently with his blonde mustache,
while. the reporter transferred Glove
from the glass to his mouth. Three
or four years ago q man looked more
or less ashamed of himself when he
ordered lemonade or seltzer. His COM
panion usually demonstrated with or
made fun Of him., and he generally
offered some sort Of an apology to the
bartender for. ordering non-intox-
icating drink. This was particularly So
with young business men, clerks, and
politicians. They ordered brandy
smashes. plain brandy whisky
punches. plain whisky, or some other
heavy drink. OF course one-half of
them didn't want it. You can't stand
behind bar long before you find out
that large percentage OF the men
who are led up to the bar to drink
would rather have nothing at all than
LIQUOR of any sort. Very many men
have scruples against drinking hard
liquor of any sort. Others have
scruples against drinking hard liquor,
and others find that it goes against
them to drink brandy or whisky be-
! fore dinner. Still the majority Of
them used Ito drink their whisky
straight and said nothing. When
I first went into the business,
fifteen years ago. we used to pass out
the whisky bottle and glasses without
asking question. II the man wanted
anything else he would push the bot
tie back and give his order. In those
days if party of young mon went
into bar-room and ordered lem onade
the barkeeper felt aggrieved, and the
bystanders made fun of him. Nova
days, however, everything is changed.
No one thinks anything when two or
three of a group of men order LEM
onade, seltzer, or apollinaris at the
! bar. -,5.@ -. -.
The simon-pure American bar
room, too, is rapidly going out of
fashion. Men NO longer enjoy rush
| ing into a room, and taking drink
standing. They have more time now
| budA h0O LCA J 0NAo <tSo", A'AA t@AHS
to sit down and chat with their friends
over sherry chickens, bees swings,
etc. A place with comfortable chairs
and tables catches the customers now,
and the modern restaurants and cafes,
where they can peacefully sit out ot
sight OF the general public, do the
most business. Their rooms arc al
ways filed:
lin my opinion drinkers are not SC
numerous as they. used to be. The
man who came in for his cocktail
every morning before breakfast OF
luncheon, and the man who took fou1
or five good drinks of whisky every
day, no longer exist to the extent they
did ten years ago. The fact is, habit
ual drinking over the bar is not fash
ionable nowadays. Men drink more
at dinner than they used to, and only
drink away from home for the fun o1
the thing. The wholesale absorption
of liquor has, gone out Of style. Now
and then a party of students or clerk!
20 to a place and drink until they car
hold no more, but this is very seldom
OF course there are others among thu
laboring classes who deliberatel,
, make up their minds to get full, ant
90 about it in business-like way ans
drink to excess, but they are now com
paratively few. "-Iroy Telegram.