The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-02
GIN TIZZ.
A Popular Drink, but Not Good for Stomach
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A Popular Drink, but Not Good for Stomach
Joe Howard, in Philadelphia Press.
/ have a play-bill of June, 1852, on which
Adelina Patti figures as prima donna III Italian
opera That's thirty three years ago. Think
of that. She dosen't show it. AS l passed oy
her dressing room last night an indiscreet waiter
made a remark concerning the weakness OF q
gin hzz he had q moment before served to her
dainty ladyship. Gin fzz, by the way, is the
drink of the day. The hotter the hour, the
longer the fiz, and as summer in all its sultIlness
has been precipitated upon US this week, so came
with it the evils and the pleasures of the dog
days, wilted collars, enervated physiques, GIN
fzzes and a longing for salt water. Personally,
l never liked the taste or smell of gin. 1t was
associated in my mind with low people, cheap
dissipation and vulgar taste. OF late, it has
largely taken the place of whisky as a fancy
beverage. Gin and settler. gin and milk, ana
gin fZzes are ordered a thousand times a day
where in former years they were asked for once.
was standing at the door Of one of our great
grocery stores to-day and noticed more than a
dozen demijohns and soda boxes on their way to
an express wagon. A clerk told me there was
gin. Zine Old Tom" in the demijohns and plain
soda in the cases. "What forl" said l. "Gin
fzz,n said he. He told me his orders for both
were constant and his shipments to private GUS
toners in the country were so great and so regu-
lar that the expresses called half a dozen times
81 day for the freight.
Personally 1 am full of faith. So is the race.
The best proof of it is the alacrity with which
men with the stomach-ache spring to try every
new remedy. / may exaggerate, but l don't do
it Intentionally, when / say that l have tried at
least fifty remedies. Every fellow l meet has
the same trouble and is naturally anxious to re-
lieve his friend. Let me, as one who has been
through the mill and been tolerably we'll ground
by its sharp and piercing teeth, give you some
good advice.
First and foremost, avoid brandy. whisky and
gin. They allay the pain temporarily, but they
excite, exasperate and infame the stomach, and
worse remains behind. Avoid all cholera medi-
cines," which are all made of laudanum, pep
permint, red pepper and camphor. They, toe,
allay the pain, but the later effect is excessively
unpleasant. They are a delusion and a snare.
In this case. as in nearly everything in life, the
simplest and easiest is the best. Take a spoon
full of the essence of ginger in a wineglass of
water, the hotter the better, and make it palata-
BILE with a little sugar. 1t acts like magic, and
after a few trials the pain and all unpleasant
symptoms disappear, and you are hunki-dori.
Aside, however, from the disputed point of what
careful, prudent people just now are suffering
with this weakening and demoralizing trouble,
and the further noticeable fact that so many
men die suddenly from it's effects.
This-I beg pardon for moralizing a trifle-is
due, must be due. to the evil habits of our day
and generation. We rise late, drink a great deal
of hard liquor. smoke constantly, drink late at
night and go to bed hours after the proper time.
When the hour of prostration comes we have no
physique to fight it with.