The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-18

orlhk bottled beer IS to invite all sorts of
diseases. The bOttling establishments are
generally in low quarters of the CITY mas
" dens, hlthy, foul. rancid. contaminated
beers oioat more than they did when there
was Tess chemistry and more hops. less
corn ana more barley. Persons of seden
tary habits should eschew beer. II is
good for the laboring man. There are as
many peers as planets, and those that are
III 10 drlhk may be counted on the fingers
of one hand
ciaret punch, properly made, is the
coolest drink. A mixture of one part claret
an" TWO parts water makes a fine internal
SloeIl LIZ rave plenty of cracked ice. There
are ~ Varlties of black grapes cultivated
IN the United States, most Of which wt1l
produce claret wine as good as ANYTHING
outside or AuStrla-Hungary The wine
snobs who decried the American brands
are rapidly dying out. Our wines have
as much character as any in the world
Avoid homemade wines. North Carolina
produces the scuppernong of which a de-
hclous sweet wine Is made. With age il
resembles Madeira. Georgia has the mus
cadine along its river bottoms but | have
never heard of wine being pressed from
that most luscious of native grapes The
muscateL or muscadel, is made of a less
worthy grape of Malaga. Some of the
home made Virginia claret which / have
not fit to wash clothes in New Jersey
grows splendid grapes, but the wine in
dustry there Is in its initiatory stage. Cali
fornia? Well, since the introduction of the
old Zinfandel grape by Mr.. Harazthy the
Golden State has taken on a claret hue,
and large part of the world is now sup
piled with it's fermented juice of the vine.
How is 1t possible that we can always
buy foreign clarets of our dealers when
the entire Importation is only 1000 eco gall
Ions year, while California alone sells us
the rest of the United States-over 10000
600 gallons? We are great wine bibbers
along the Atlantic seaboard, and the total
consumption Is about 100000 gallons an
nually of which one-tenth IL imported.
We are beginning TO ask for California
Wines, and demand that no foreign mix
lures be palmed off on us. A few years
ago we were ashamed TO let our guests
know that we had Zinfandel on our tables
but bought empty Chianti bottles and filled
them out of gallon demijohns of native
logwood juice as a petty deception.
Our national beverage is soda water
There are 10000 soda fountains in the Uni
ted States, and one in Chicago-Plows
you all remember well-sold as much as
$4,000 worth of carbonated beverages in
a single year. There is a drug store in
Broadway near John street, where more
than dozen clerks are employed to draw
and serve these beverages. The place Is
packed from morning 10 night, and the
sales probably exceed $4,000 annually
Soda water cannot hurt man or child.
With pure syrups il is wholesome
There are vast profits IN soda water
Hudnut, under the old Herald building. at
Broadway and Ann street, made million
out of ii, besides supporting his pharmacy
which paid Mr.. Bennett an enormous
aI f-l.
at the same business. though he is bound
to admit that his fortune is aided and
abetted by a liquid which is the butt Of
half the jokes in Park row. Perry, / be-
heve, is a Southerner a Virginian, and
member Of the New York Press Club. That
means lot, not only to the club, but to
Perry.
Time was when soda water apparat.
uses were the belongings OF The drua
store. Then they crept into the confec>
tionery, and from that have beaten their
way into nearly every kind Of shop ana
business under the sun, from the barroom
TO the department store, from the fail
grounds to the fashionable club from the
boulevard tent TO the dining room of the
millionaire. Soda water tastes as well
with dry goods as with drugs and candy.
Beware of some Of the so-called settlers,
settlers, vichy and carbonics which are
peddied from house to house and sold a
cents a siphon The gases are bad. They
distend the stomach, and when drunk in
quantities late at night cause Nightmares.
They contain substances that should not
go into the internal economy. Vichy, once
only the name Of a town, is become the
generic name of all sorts Of carbonated
waters, and recent chemical triumphs have
produced quality that far surpasses the
natural product of the Grande Grille.
Puits-Carre, or L'Hopital
What's the matter with drinking a little
plain water now and then. Croton Is good
/ used TO drink gallons and gallons of il
unhltered and undiluted, and my health
was as sound as a pine knot, but the doc
tors spread abroad the special edlct that
81 must be boiled, and / followed their
fool advice. / haven't enjoyed drink
Of water since the boiling and filtering
business began at my house. The water
has no taste of water, but metallic pot
flavor that Is sckening. All the delicious
little microbes have been killed, and the
resultant soup, which we might call mi
crobes broth, is unpalatabe. / have lust
gone back TO plain, fresh water microbes.
bacteria and all. and life is again worth
living. While drinking boiled water
hateful there was M Ifuipy nj