Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-01-01
INSIDIOUS JULEP.
A TRIBUTE TO JULeP JACOB, NEGRO,
or THE WHITE SULPHUR.
mixer in Ordinary aud Extraordinary at
tho Ciub-uousc-Enec of HIS De-
coctions on q Northern Youth.

coctions on Northern Youth.
Only few Of the old-style gambling
houses Of the South remain.
One OF them, perhaps the most
widely known, il the Rambling-house at
the White Sulphur Springs. where the
girls of the South have made summer
bcauty-show since the days OF their grand
mothers, and their fathers and brothers
have bucked the tiger aud drunk the iu-
leps. This gambling house, which, OF
course, is called q clubhouse. says the New
York Sun. and is somewhat like proprls-
tary club, Is situated on the banks OF
creek which IN sprlngtime Ia q little rlVer.
A few hundred feet away ia the vhlte SUI
phur spring, and beyond the spring are
the grassy slopes of the lawn. with the
hotel and cottages back Of them. The
gambling house has existed almost as long
as the hotel and the cottages.
NOWHERE ELSE TO 60.
But its palmy days are over. Inc gam
bling now is small and the bank had to In
crease its per centage 80 as 10 make enough
to pay for the game-suppers and Juleps
and the cost of running the place. Chips
are sold as low as o quarter and bets Oh
over $40 are few. The old staff Of dealers
because there is nowhere else except hes-
ven for them to go. They would be lost
anywhere else on the face OF the earth.
The negroes we're brought up in the gam
bling house as boys. When they got older
they were put to work in the kitchen and
then served as walters on the table, until
in time they might arrive at the dignity OK
making Juleps.
Julep Jacob, who recently died, was
brought into existence by the customs OF
the South before the war, and especially
by the gambling house at the White. lie
needs no encomiums in the South, wnere
his handiwork has been known and en-
loved for three generations. but IN the
North, where the beverage from when ne
got his name is less common, bis fame as q
master craftsman should be made known:
That Julep Jacobs ancestors were owned
by the best people of Virginia he showed
by his dignity aud carriage, presence. ana
selt-respect. His last name IS known only
TO few. de was never addressed by IL.
He was baptized Jacob. and when he grew
to manhood and attained the dignity OF tho
best maker of juleps at the White ne
proudly took his name from tho drinks ne
made.
The responsibility of the thousands, OF
juleps which be had mixed had made Julep
Jacobs hair white. His face was Jet BLACK,
and the Write kIaSs gave an arlstocTauc
tone. He hsG O full Van Dyke Oeard|A
rare thing for iet-black negro, Inc
beard was frizzly and grayish waite. III
grew TO a point and was tended with great
care and pride. He was always carefully
dressed in clothes which were made 10y
some first-class tailor and did not look as
If they had bs5n worn by another owner
before. His board was carefully arranged;
and frequcn; brushing aad almost turned
the kinks Of lbs hair l to closely-knltted
white curls. HIS linen was sorupulously
clean, his ties modest and well arranged,
his shoes always g.istening.
DREAM or FABADIsP.
All these were accessories &C. his great
art OF making mint-julnps "a :hey should
be mixed. Julep Jacob could MAKE the
| frost come on the outside Of tho glas~. not
q thin film, but real ICY frost, ike the
CRYSTALS that form on tn trees IN Central
Park on a cool winters morning. IL was
J his business to see that every enc IN the
| gambling house who VIZ ted a 'ulep was
promptly supplied with one properly con;
/ cOctod To southern mon accustomed
| from their youth 10 the tastes OF luleps
| and their inside Is conquests, his mixtures
were hard TO resi- It, while to man from
| tho North who had tasted no other juleps
! than the mixed drinks which 90 by that
/ namein New York bar-rooms, Julep JACOBS
! iuleps were an enhancing dream OK fara-
disc.
/ One of the fayorite games at this gam
/ bling-house ia roulette. IL IS easily played,
because all the player has 10 do Is to put
/ the chips down; the dealer usually does
everything else. A young man from the
/ North had put down chip after chip one
evening last summer until he had lost
enough to pay for his supper, when ne
made the acquaintance OF Ju'ep jacob. lie
| happened to look around and sinlle, at
Julep Jacob, who promptly made lutsp
and put it on the roulette tHols at inc
roung mans left. The iulep was dehclous.
1t did not last long. Another smile brought
another. julep.
The jTiiep was as pretty q sight as tho
Greenbrler Mountains across the RIVER. IL
was the mountains in winter IN miniature;
The sprigs of mint waved over the top OF
the glass as the evergreen pines pow 10 the
! wind on the top of the mountain. 1 ne
tracery of frost-work on the outside OF the
GLASS was q miniature Of the snOw-drltts on
the mountain side. Thewhite sugar evenly
distributed in the bottom OF the glass re-
called the snow on the meadows at the
| foot OF the mountain.
A CUMULATIVE DRINK.
Julep Jacobs eyes smiled when he saw
the way in which his handiwork was en-
| loved. Julep followed iulep. Ii was IN,
necessary to ask-the julep glass seemed
| always 10 % Hllbu.
Now iulep is a cumulative drink. 10
piles up like the water behind dam, NTH
| the dam breaks and the flood sweeps or.
Southern men accustomed 20 iuleps rarely
take moro than six or seven on one occa-
SION. for, besides being cumulative, the
juleps have way Of postponlnS their Ell
fects and of coming on the man VINO has
been sober for some time after having
taken them, like a burst OF rain from a
clear sky.
The Young man from the North kept on
drinking iulepa until ne had taken oleYe n
or twelve. They did not seem TO have
much effect. 1t seemed as IT the mint ana
the sugar had an emollient property, ana
that a mint-iulep was device by when
the whiskey could be taken harinieSsly III
large quantities.
The party about the roulette-table ~
last broke up and went TO their rooms. IL
is usual at the White for EVERYBODY 10
slaep late. Ii is up in the mountains
where the night Is cool and everything IS
still. The young man from the North was
also accustomed to sleeping late, Inc ne1iI
morning before o'clock he woke up and
found himself 70 be in condition OF yio
lent intoxication. He was surprised; IN
fairly-long experience nothing OF ~
kind had ever happened to him before. Nc
matter how much he had been drinking ~
the evening and whatever the effects of II
the next morning might be, lnto1lcGtlon
was not one of them He mad neysr been
able to drink enough to last until break
fast-time.
NOVEL EFFECTS.
Tho mint-juleps seemed to have suddenly
assembled IN convention and 60 have pro-
claimed themselves to be in state OF III.
toxication. They sent word TO the leg'
that the legs must wobble. and 10 the
ankles that they must bend to the eyes
that they must see several things at once .,
This was alarming, and the owner OF the
ewes, legs, and ankles promptly started
down to the swimming pool to take cold
plunge. Hitherto the worst mixture o.
rum. whiskey, and champagne had alway'
succumbed 10 this treatment in 81 after
noon or an evening. Ahalf an hours cold
bath and swim. with rubbing down, nae
never been known to fail. SO he got tht
rubber OF the bath and went into the poo
The pool was usually FIVE feet deep, but
the bottom had sunk rapidly az he, diyeeo
IN. The day before the pool bad only
been forty feet wide and seventy feet long
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