New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-07-17

r,iise OF an aggressive champion or beer Sui-
but beer may also contain sugar. Indeed now
that II occurs TO u.s. we think we remember see
ing long table Of the constituents OF Things
which was fairly boiling over with figures ana
that in Il beer between beef and biscuD was
credited with a small percentage of sugar Beer
then is no drink for hot weather, and our tenn
perance friends, who do not habitually use IL as
a beverage (as noted above). quite right In
avoiding 1t.
There remain sundry other drinks. The soda
water fountain Itself yiedeth a vast cloud OF
these but the most Of them liffer little from Its
legitimate product. or course, In Iowa, and
some other Prohibition States, the soda-water
fountain $50 It Is said often gives forth strange
fluids which 'twere well not 10 consider too
clriousy: but we shall conflne our examination
to the domestic fountain. avoiding the Wild
varieties which may infest distant common
wealths There are also lemonade and ice cream.
which latter. for present prophylactical purposes,
We may consider as drink. This. We take 1t. Is
the most deadly Of the lot. since II not only con-
tains sugar but heating fats as we'll. Az for
lemonade, It would certainly be discouraging
work to try to feed any sort Of furnace fire with
lemon Juice: but alas. lemonade always contains
also a large admixture of sugar. substance
which seems TO leave It's deadly trail on all sum-
mer drinks, even on beer. which is looked upon
with dsfavor in Prohibition circles (as previously
explained, probably on account Of the sugar
There remains odd drink, known TO some,
and called mint Juep. There are not wanting
those who stoutly maintain that this Is a huid
At for the gods We do not know. Certainly we
make bold to think that they do not refer to
this drink as dispensed IN the Bowery where we
learn. from incendlary oilcloth signs. that within
may be obtained "A big mint julep with an egg
in It. five cents" But again. as In soda water,
we find sugar: yet with this advantage. that
iulep water. being compounded to order. rather |
than kept In stock. the sugar may be reduced 70 |
a minimum or omitted altogether. Thus pre-. |
pa red tulep would seem TO be a wholesome sum- |
mer drink The mint plant hath most excellent
SAVIOR and seems good for human consumption
So too do the lemon Juice and the other minor
ingredients tsay those who favor jueps) seem to
be purposed by benefcent nature FOR the use Of
man in no, weather In short say those that
have partaken thereof. julep water is OF nature
30 mild and benign and proportoned to the
human constitution as TO cool without chilling,
to cheer but not TO excite-we pilfer and adapt
our language from no less parsonage than
bishop. though should say that he wrote or
another fluid: but on the other hand. he wrote
before the discovery Of the julep
We would not for moment be thought 10 adj
vocate the general Use Of iced jueps in hot
wea Their for DO nothing of the kind. We are
simply giving further currency to rumors which
are floating about. There may be grave objec-
Ions to the drink. II. as some authorities main
ain. II Is taken through a straw we should say
hat there such objections. Straws are
ooked upon with suspicion In many circles.
,ear ago a church sociabe was broken up In
Connecticut because two straws and a red rasp-
perry placed in each glass OF lemonade
'ntil the mint juep purges itself OF the straw
I were well to regard II cautiously as beer Is
egardod by some temperance people. a fact
which may already be- familiar 10 the reader.