Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-09-04
"WHITE PLUSH"
A New York Drink and the Origin
of It's Name.

OF It's Manic.
"What is the reason for the big de-
mand for milk' This place does not
resemble dairy"
.Oh, everybody wants white plush
lately. It's caught on great"
"And what is white plush?'"
what is it? Well. you ought to be
labeled! Where do you live? Jimmy
with the tone of man explaining
curiosity1 here is gentleman what
don't know what white plush IS.
WHY. it's the new drink. thought
everybody knew that"
But what is it made Off
..Oh, inst milk and whisky. l never
knew a drink that caught on so quick,
or got so popular as white plush has,
All the swells drink it. 1t makes
very GOOD booze too-palatable. and is
n first, class all-around drink. If fell
low hasn't eaten anything 1t is very
nourishing; takes the place OF food.
! Then. if the man has been up all night
whooping things, white plush is
better bracer than cocktail. 1t slips
down, easy. you know, when fellow
finds it pretty hard to swallow any
thing. Then, too, it's good day
drink, for it doesn't leave breath,
and a man can talk with his employer
or a temperance advocate without CIV
ing himself away. As an evening
drink it has its advantages also. You
can make them either short or long
and as nobody knows how much whisky
you are drinking you have no need to
get fnll unless you want to. 1t is
great snap for that,
How DID white plush first get into
the market?'
ooh, by accident. Just as all the
fancy mixtures, do. There are some
mixed drinks that are stand-bys, and
are always popular. such as cocktails,
punches. and juleps; but every little
white there will be a new racket sprung
on the public that will have a great run
for awhile, and then get knocked. out
bv another About month ago white
plush got its start this way; There VISA
a country buyer down from New Eng
land some where, and a party OF dry
goods men were trying to make 1t
pleasant for him. So they took him
into a swell bar room down town, and
were going to open sour wine. Same
old story, YOU know; get him full as
q balloon, and then work him for big
order. 1t turned out that this country
man was not such flat as they thought
him. Though he had been swigglng
barrels of hard cider and Struggled
Canada whisky for the last twenty
years, he pleaded the temperance bust
uess on them, said he never drank, and
he guessed he'd Just take a glass oil
water if they would git him one, as he
was kinder thisrty walkin' round Sc
much. Well. that was a setback fol
the bows. They knew he had lots OF
money to spend, and he was one Of
those unapproachable ducks that have
got to be warmed up before you can dc
anything with him.
- Oh, take something they said
take some milk
well, l guess a glass of mill
would 90 sorter good, said he.
"Some one suggested kumyss and
, told him what it was. As they did MOI
have any kumyss in the place they gave
him some m TX and seltzer. That
about the same thing. One of the boy:
. rave the bartender n wink and he pu
, a dash of whisky in it. The old mar
ER Maase tt 6 Set &9pztq thRt i He though
next round the setter was left out al
together and more whisky put in
, They kept on giving it to him until HI
, got pretty veil set up. It's very in
, sIdious and seductive drink. Pretty
: soon the countryman got funny anc
, tipped his glass over on the table. A:
, it spread around he sad:
, " Gosh, it looks like white plush
don't it?'
(" so il does said the boys. Give
the gentleman another yard of white
, plush, here, and the name has stuck Il
, it ever since. "-NeU York sun.