The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-28

with which the Presidential campaign VIII
be pushed from on.
1t is painful fact for all right-mindaE2 bar
tenders to contemplate. that both on the
Presidential candidates are abstainers. Nc
IEinley drinks nothing stronger than settler,
while Bryan draws the line the other
side of ginger ale and sarsaparilla. The
knights of the bar are, however, finding
sOlace in the fact that their old time enemy,
the Prohibiuon1sts. will be sadly discounted
by having to face two men with such anti
Kentuckian proclivities.
TIE morning after the announcement of
McKinIey's nomination, t'McKinley's De-
light" dawned upon the world, and on the
same day that Bryan secured the plum at
! Chicago the Free Silver Fig was born.
Neither of these drinks is a temperance af-
/ fair by any means A man who knows
| whereof he speaks says that four of Me
/ Kfnley's Delights will render any one
/ blind, mentally and physically, while six
| Free Silver FIXES have been known 70
| cause immense damage. including the fol-
lowing:
| One free fight; escape in hanson cab to
avoid arrest; kicking the windows out of
the said cab later; awful clubbing from the
policeman called by cabby to arrest kicker;
one night in station house, sharing same
cell with habitual bum; one $40 fine in court
next morning, and promise to pay cabby
S33 for injuries 70 cab; subsequent bill from
, doctor for dressing wounds caused by pO-
1ceman's club; one new suit of clothes to
replace that ruined in the two fights; one
terrible family row caused by bogus eXplana-
ton of absence from home; several terrible
shocks to sel1-esteem caused by reading in
newspapers full accounts of disgraceful hap
penings; uniztnd jokes by friends; chilly
greetings by women friends of wife; one
call from minister and long lecture on folly
of intempecance; one cyclone battle with
mother-in-law, to say nothing to ruf1ed
feelings, loss of self-respect bodily pains
from policeman's club. monetary loss and
mental suffering, equal in all to $1,000
THE RECIPE.
Six drinks of a drink that can do all this
shows that the Free Silver Fig is some
thing very much out of the ordinary. Here
is the way the man who invented the drink
mixes it:
A long, thin glass is set out, with two or
three small Jumps Of crystal ice. Then the
barkeeper, making an ostentatiOus pretense
of washing and drying his hands, produces
a large, fat juicy lime. This he cuts in
half. A silver strainer is laid over the
glass lip. With his fingers the juice of
the lime is squeezed onto the strainer and
allowed to percolate through the holes and
to the ice.
Then an ordinary thin drinking glass and
a bottle of gin are set before the interested
and thirsting customer. It is the etiquette
OF the fashionable bar that in the concoc-
ton Of the "fizz'' the patron shall be the
judge of the amount Of spirits that he at
the moment requires.
The modieum Of gin is poured in upon tia
ice and lime juice, and then the bartender
water?" The selection is made and the
effervescent water is squirted into the
glass. being deity stirred in the mean
while with a silver spoon. It must be
drunk while ''hot,'' that is, while foaming.
THE FAKE UNVEILED.
One patron, who ordered a free silver
izz,'' merely to show his political learning,
took two sips from the glass. and then
placing it on the bar, said to the bartender
calmly but plainly:
You're a fake"
The bartender took the insult blandly
and the man with the glass took another
sip, and again placing it upon the bar
said:
You're a fake That's just an ordinary
every day gin rickey. I have been drinking
four of these every twenty-four hours
for the past six months. and I repeat,
you're a fake
Hush! Not so loud. You're right. I'm
a fake. But the drinks all right. amt it?
We've got to change the names of the
drinks every few months; that's the reason
I've got to stand here quiet and peaceful
with my hands at my side, listening to you
call me a fake. That's a gin rickey. sure