Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-08-09
WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE.
It's Wonderful Bracer for WORKOUT
Stomachs

It's Wonderful Bracer for Worn-Out
Stomachs.
Did Won ever hear OF a Worcester
shire sauce cocktail? Probably not.
Yet they are drunk by certain persons
whose stomachs require strong decoc-
ton to tone them up. | ate breakfast
IN certain popular restaurant yester-
day, and could find no Worcestershire
on my table with which to flavor my
steak. When the head-waiter brought
bottle to me be smiled aud remarked,
HWe can't afford to keep Worcester
shire on the tables any longer, sir; too
many people drink it up.
Drink it up? You don't mean to
say that any one drinks Worcestershire
as beverage. 1 should think it would
burn the roof out of his mouth
1T probably would out of an ordi-
nary mans, said the head-waiter; but
for an old rounier Worcestershire
1t straightens him up when whisky, and
gin cocktails, and even absinthe, have
lost their grip. Before we hid our
Worcestershire bottles away, | have
seen them come in, sit down at the
tables, give their order for breakf fast,
and then, as soon as tho walters back
was turned. empty their glass of water,
seize the Worcestershire bottle. fill the
goblet half full of the sauce aud down
it at a gulp. The effect is quick
and wonderful. Men who come in all
played out, shaky and dilapidated, will
straighten up and be as hungry as a
tramp by the time breakfast is brought.
Oh, there is nothing like Worcester
shire cocktail. The old FOUNDERS
would tel you so, if they would tell
you the truth. But they won't. They
are ashamed of it, and conceal their
craving. don't believe you could get
one of the Worcestershire 'fiends' to
own up to it."
Did you ever know anybody to ask
for drink of Worcestershire ?"
Never but once He is an old Gus
toner aud gives me good tips, so | will
not expose him by telling his name.
He used to look around wistfully after
the bottles disappeared from our tables,
and when he couldn't find them he
would order absinthe. But that didn't
hit the spot like Worcestershire. Pres
emily | detected him drinking the
tomato catsup. l said nothing, but the
catsup bottles were taken OF. The
next morning he came in to breakfast
as usual, and 1 saw him look for the
tomato catsup. He couldn't find it, of
course. | said to myself, What will
! you do now, old mani? He was evil
! IDENTIFY disturbed. But he ordered his
breakfast. and began inspecting the
cruets in the stand on the table. All
at once bright idea struck him. He
took out the cayenne pepper cruet,
4 literally sprinkled the water in his
goblet, and drank it down, could
stand it no longer. Walking up to him,
/ said: Mr.. --, would you like
some Worcestershire He flushed up,
for he saw that / knew his secret--no
secret, though, for he is only one of a
dozen such that frequent this restau-
rant. Yes he replied, L would.
/ Nothing picks me up like Worcester
shire. | tell you what I'll do. Sell
me bottle and keep it for me, and
when 1 come in to get my breakfast.
pour me out small glassful on the
quiet Say nothing to anybody, and /
will see that you lose nothing / did
so, and now he gets his Worcestershire
cocktail every morning, and eats his
breakfast like little man."
1t is we'll known to the trade that
one of the ingredients of many of the
sauces used on meats is asafetida. This
is the drug administered in hospitals
and inebriate asylums to patients who
are suffering from tho effects of hard
drinking. Probably the presence OF
the asafetida explains why FOUNDERS"
find the drinking Of table sauces so in
MIGRATING to their worn-out stomachs
The question is: How long will the
effects last? After Worcestershire,
what p NetU York Star.