Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-08-14

THE MIXERS INVENTIVE SKILL
ARE DEWEY COCKTAIL. MATAN-
ZAs MULE. HoBSON CANNON
BALL, LALLAH CoOLLAH, MUIR
MUIR OF THE SHELLS, TONGUE
LoOsENER BRIDES KISS, AND
LOW OF THE KINE-oLD CON-
COCTIONS STILL IN FAVOR.
Washington Post.
A little after O'clock every after
noon, when the department clerk has
left his labors for the government, the
brokers have closed up their books,
and men in hundred walks OF life
have completed their work for the day,
there are more people in the better
class Of saloons than at any other hour
of the twenty-four. All through the
morning and afternoon hours the clerk
and the business men have perspired
and fretted, cursed the weather and
the weather prophets, and taken their
only comfort in the thought OF even
ing and some cool, pleasant place
where, if the breeze will not blow, the
electric fans will. Few men drink
more than a bottle Of beer or an iced
punch during business hours, and it is
only when the time for labor is over
that the thoughts Of the thirsty turn
untrammeled to what would be the
coolest, the pleasantest, and the most
refreshing concoction the magician in
duck clothes, who knows the secrets of
spirits and bitters, wine and ice, and
has learned to blend their multifold
charms, can prepare. The summer
drink, if it would fill its appointed
destiny, must soothe the ragged nerves,
raise the spirits, cool the throat, and
leave behind only grateful sense of
physical satisfaction and mental calm.
To the bartender who regards his
business as a profession, in which he
must strive to be first, the eternal de-
mand for some combination OF liquids
which shall fill all these requirements
and still be different from the summer
drinks Of last year and the last ten
years, the evolution of hot weather
drink that has never been breWed be-
fore, and one that will draw to its
shrine on first acquaintance the erst-
while worshippers of the rickey, the
gin-fzz, and the mint juleE, is the
spur to ambition. He watches the men
from out Of town, mary of whom call
for unknown drinks, and often give
a clew to the manufacture CT some new,
unheralded and potent thirst destroye-
INVENTING NEW DRINKS.
The men who have been dropping
In daily for two Or three drinks for
years not infreQuently hit on some
combination which they find has all
the elements of popularity, and its in
PRODUCTION to their friends gives the
bartender a tip, and he soon has nam
ed the new drink, and is running it
over the bar to every man who wants
something fine and cool; l don't care
what it is But get the recipe how
he may there is never summer with
out new summer drink, though few
of them survive more than one season,
and many of them owe their brief fame
to the catchy character of their name
rather than to any claims they have
to fit in the niche where a real sum-
mer drink is always welcome
In Washington the rickey first found
fame and popularity, and not SO long
ago. Col. Joe Hickey introduced this
combination of lime juice, whisky and
settler to the thirsty of the Capital
only a few years since. It's fame has
spread and the number of rickeys that
are now consumed annually may be
guessed from the fact that their popu-
larity has increased the importation
Of lines into the United States sever
al hundred per cent. Five years ago
the rickey was unknown, and the lime,
while it was sometimes seen, was rare
and comparatively dear. To-day every
barroom in the country has a basket
of lines near the ice, and the fruit is
sold at half the price it brought before
the rickey made cargoes for whole
shiploads from the West Indies. The
rickey has found its notifications and
is now made either Of Whiskey or gin.
Half a whisky glass full of liquor
poured in a tall glass filed with
cracked ice and brimed out with seltz-
er, with the juice Of half lime and
the rind from which it is pressed
thrown in, makes the real riclley.
There is no sugar to leave a bad taste,
just enough whisky to stimulate the
heat-weakened nerves, and the soft
mineral water to carry the chill of the
ice and the life of the spirit to the hot,
dry throat and the depressed system.
Some people like gin in place of the
whisky, and others. with no regard for
copyright laws, have introduced orange