Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-01-18
EUROPEAN DRINKS.
A BicyciIst Writes Concerning Cont
mental Concoctions.

mental Concoctions.
Whilst beer and ale might perhaps
trutHfully be called the national beV-
erage of England even these days, it is
far less so than il was some years ago.
Englishmen are taking very kindly of
late to mixed drinks, and drink al
most as much whisky in proportion TO
malt beverages as We do. The mixed
drinks OF England differ very materi-
ally, however, from those Of this coun-
try. Shandygaff, a mixture of ale and
| ginger, Is favorite drink among Eng
lish athletes and freQuenters of race
| courses and summer resorts. Another
odd mixture is known as dognose.
Dognose consists of two-thirds ale and
one-third gin. The consumption of
dognose is confined chiefly to the lower
classes. Ii IS drunk mostly by old
| topers, whose stomachs have swllled
tear and porter and 'alf-and-'alf until
these comparatively mild beverages 10
longer suffice to satisfy their craving.
The addition of the fiery and penetra-
tive Old Tom makes a combination
that goes home every time in spite of
their well seasoned condition.
The custom of drinking ale at meal
| IukllSil llsio al
unfavorabIe impression among many
American lady visitors. But there Is
as much to be said in favor of it as
against it. Mrs. John Bull recipro
Gates with even more horror at our
pitchers of Ice water on the table.
| Mrs. John Bull would seem TO have
on her side the best of all arguments,
too, a roouster constitution and fewer
| leshly ills than her ice water drinking
sister.
What says Monsieur lie Frenchman
across the English channelr Beer9
Take 1t away; the barbarous stuff, ut
only for the gross palates OF Germans
and Albions- Whisky y little better;
still altogether too gross and solid for
the mercurial Frenchman. His favor
ite tipple Is absinthe. This splritu-
ellie beverage floats around in Pierre
Macelotte's nervous system, tingles the
nerves and causes him to feel patri-
otic and sans soucI. 1t causes him to
shout out IN his Imagination: 'Vive la
Fraucep' and ''On to Berlin" This
is what honest Pierre likes, and since
absinthe brings 1t about, he drinks a
good deal of it. Another beverage is
tea and rum. 1.-The ct rum'' is a IA
vorite beverage with the French Ia
dies, who drop into cafes and sip 1t
during the afternoon promenade or
when out shopping. The French table
d'hote is familiar enough to many of
US here, with its inevitable boutelle
de vim ordinaire. This win ordinaire,
or common claret, may rightfully be
considered the national beverage OF La
Belle France, for everybody drinks it.
In the common country hotels 1t flows
almost as free as water.
n Passing into Germany, it seems
hardly worth while to remind the
reader of German lager. Everybody
knows what Is the national beverage
of the Fatherland. The good people
of some German cities well nigh live
on beer. The women drink almost as
freely of il as their husbands and
brothers. The shopgirl or milliner's
assistant IN Munich will trip into the
neIghborIng beer hall at noon, and take
for luncheon a quarter mug of beer and
a piece of bread and rad.sh. In the
evening she wanders with her sweet
heart into an al fresco beer garden and
passes hour after hour listening to the
band and drinking beer. For dinner
she has probably consumed the second
or third quart OF beer since morning
and a FTankfuTter sausage sandwich.
The natural result of so much beer
drinking in proportion TO solid food
taken is to give the people of Munich
kind of 1abby appearance, and to
make them drow: Y. The whole city
seems TO be In SEMI comatose condl-
ton. The cabmen fall asleep so often
on their boxes that the municipal
authorities have found it necessary to
impose fines upon hackdrivers found
asleep at their post. Notwithstanding
the universal consumption of beer,
however. the Germans of the wealthier
class drink a good deal Of schnapps
Beer holds its own all through a us
tria to beyond Vienna, but wine and
liquors usuIp the throne again in Hun
gary. All down the valley OF the Dan
ube below Budapest the red loan
bluffs fairly ooze the rich wine OF Hun
gary. Every town and village has its
adjacent vineyards, and every village
gasthaus or city hotel has an al fresco
vine garden. Here the good people
congregate of an evening and pass the
hours away drinking wine, gossiping
and listening to the weird music of a
Hungarian Gypsy hand. AS in France,
the Hungarian peasant makes meII y
on red wine that only the well to do oI
most countries can afford to drink ad
libitum.
Beer, wine and schnapps are common
enough all down through Slavonia and
the lower Danubian provinces, but a
change takes place when one gets fairly
into the Balkan peninsula. One now
gets among the unspeakable Orientals
whose ways are not as our ways. Sher-
bet, mastlc and coffee are the bever-
ages of Bulgaria, Roumelia and Tur-
key. The former may be merely a
glass OF water in which lump of sugar
has been dissolved, or may be concoc-
ton of fruit, sugar and rose water. or
of various mixtures between these two
extremes. The drink called mastic is
said to be a preparation OF imported
Boston rum and gum mastic. 1t Is a
vile liquor, and about as deadly as the
'sbug juice" of the Rocky mountain
saloons, but makes an agreeable tast-
ing beverage when mixed with several
times its bulk OF water.
Hallway tcoffeel, however, Is the ma
tional beverage OF Turkey. 1t is
served in tiny cups, holding no more
than a couple of tablespoonfuls each.
The coffee is ground into fine -four
and used with such liberality that the
beverage is quite thick. 1t is served
scalding hot, and Is imbibed by touch
ing the lips cautiously to the edge OF
, /, the cup and slipping it out with the
! WEAKNESS of a person who has known
all too often what it Is to burn the
mouth.
A Soldiers Love; or, Back From the
Grave