St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-20
THE DUDES DREAM"
a Harmless Cocktail Made for Modes
Drinkers ia Charleston.
From the Charleston Times.

| Drinkers ia Charleston.
From the Charleston Times.
''Gimme a dream,'' said dude who wore
painfully tight pantaloons, pointed-toed shoes,
and four-inch collar, as he leaned over the
counter of fashionable bar-room the other
day and gently sucked the German-silver
knob of his ffteen-cent cane. A reporter,
who was toying with light gin toddy at the
same counter, out down his glass, struck an
idiotic attitude, and watched developments.
When a delicate specimen OF the human
species skips lightly up to the counter OF
ba--room and boldly asks for DREAM" the
natural inference is that he is either lunatic
or that he wants dose of alcoholic poison
strong enough to put him to sleep, "perchanee
to dream" at once.
The artist who mixes the cocktails behind
this particular counter, however, did not
seem to be at all disconnected. He started
to work, and in few minutes placed before
the dude champagne-glas about half filed
With thick liquid substance resembling an
egg beaten up. Into this he poured a white
fluid from bottle labeled "Apollinaris wa
ter" Then the stuff in the tumbler began
upon it in idiotc admiration for a second or
two, and then taking the glass in his han
put it to his mouth and
GULPED 1T DOWN.
He then pulled out fve-cent initial hand
kerchief from his coat pocket and departed
with au injunction to the artistic cocktail
mixer TO chang her up.'
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a sign displayed over the battery of bottles
in the black walnut sideboard, on which was
the legend, 1.-THE Dudes Dream, Is
Cents In reply to his inquiries the bar
keeper condescended IN explanation, as he
proceeded by mixing ''dude's dream"
That's my own invention" he said, 'and
a mighty good invention it is. l think of APP
plying for patent for it. How l came to
invent it! I'll tell you. Business, you know,
has been terribly dull Of late. To be sure, we
have the old soaks,' who come regularly for
their medicine, but there's very little money
in them. They generally come in, call for
whisky-straight, take bath, put down ten
cents, and go out. When they get through
with their bath they don't want any more
whisky for three or four hours
But" expostulated the innocent reporter,
edo you also keep a bathing-housr, herel"
''Yelng man," replied the artist. don't
you know what whisky bath isl Well, I'll
tell you. You see there suckers all over the
world. Some bar-rooms beat
THE SUCKERS
By using very small tumbers, but We don't;
we give regular sized whisky-glass. When
gentleman comes in he don't like to stick
his nose into a thimble, and most gentlemen
likes to weaken their whisky with .polinaris
or settler = polinaris and scltzer is very
popular nowadays. Some like ginger ale in
their whisky they say it tastes like cham
payne. Very few drinks brandy and soda
nowadays. Well, YOU see, We keep regular
whisky-glasses. glasses that will hold more'n
Il gill, p'raps. A sucker will fill up that glass
with whisky, gulp it down, shove his dime
on the counter, and get out. That's what we
call bath Sometimes when We strike
such customers we don't say anything.
There's no use kicking. but we get even with
EN- by just getting Dig towel aud putting il
down on the counter longsiIe the glass.
They know what that means, and it makes
'em feel small and mean.
"Well, as / was saying before, that's not
the kind Of business that pays. What you
want in a respectable saloon like this is run |
OF customers who drink
FANCY DRINKS,
and drinks lots of 'em. To keep this custom
We have to be alive and get up new and en-
ticing mixtures. All the old drinks are
played out. There was good run on fixes
in the summer, and Tom and jerry went
of pooty well about Christmas time. People
began to get tired Of the old things, however
and things looked blue. Dudes generally
drink pony beers, or settler iemOnades, or
sasp'rilla, but there's no nourishment ia
hese, aud 1t puzzled me to get up something
recherche for the 'iewness day So, one
night after a very dull business, | Thought so
much about it that | went TO sleep dreaming |
about new drinks. That's how | caught on
to the dudes dream, and this is how make |
it up Watch me close, but don't give it |
away"
The voluble artist then took a large glass. |
into which he poured a tablespoonful OF |
lemon juice To this be added two teaspoon |
fuls Of sugar, which he mixed well together, |
then about half wine-glass Of Chartreuse |
and then an egg was broken into the mixture. |
Some ice was added and the whole was shaken 1
up for a minute, after which it was strained |
aud poured into q champagne glass, which it |
about half filed. The glass was fIlled IN then
with Apollinaris water aud ''the dudes
dream was Il reality.
ATS not so very nice TO you, | dare saw
continued the artist as the reporter discun-
timed his unsuccessful attempts Ia take in
''the dudes dream" but it's immense To
the dudes. They can drink up weeks wages
In dreams aud not bave a swell head. The
only liquor in It is thimbleful OF Chartreuse
and the EGG in n is bread and meat. It's a
boss tipple, tell you, and it's my own in
veutiun."