The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-13


of songs, the young girls dress in fashy
stockings, and the young men are attired
IN knee pants. 1t is a gala day dress pa
rade. They march in procession and sing
their songs play their music and dance
the llVelong day In Spain the young man
VINO has the honor of putting on the wood
en- SHOES ana tramping out the first juice
OF the ripened grape is the king of the
festival.
Out in California, especially in Sonomo
county, we hold a carnival in celebration
OF the day when the vintage begins, which
is at the same a per cent. PEE
riod. The festival held last year was one
of the prettiest and most artistic things
| ever saw. 1t represented the marriage of
Bacchus to Venus, ceremony which is
true aud typical of the right meaning of
the grape and its uses. The grape is glor-
fled everywhere, except by the Anglo-Sax-
ons, where wines have been used 10 disad-
vantage and to excess.
Il myself, can see nothing but poetry In
wine 1t is as delicate as a woman. 1t
has its smiles Its moods, its tempers, and
from every standpoint wine is like "a wo-
man; that is why men like it so much. In
the sprngtime; when the sap begins TO
run in the vine. II you should happen TO he
in one of those underground wine cellars
in California, you would hear a soft gurg
ling sound and the celarkeeper Is seen go
ing about with his mallet pounding and
loosening the bungs. That shows how
close a sympathy there Is between the vine
and the wine itself Again in the fall of the
year the same sympathetic gurgling and
light fermentng of the wines down in the
deep dark cellars is heard with the chang
ing of the season, and the cellarkeepers
again going about and pounding the bungs.
There is no liquid in the world so near
the human and that comes so near having
life as wine. l am a great advocate of tenn
perance and ! believe that the true solu-
ton of intemperance is 10 make wine
food adjunct The grape is an ideal nutri-
ment. The grape comes the nearest TO be-
ing a duplicate of mothers milk, contains
those essential things which the human
system demands for sustenance. II con-
tains phosphates, tannin, which is excel
lent for the stomach, albumoids and tissue
builders. IL also contains an appreciable
quantity of iron. II is simply natures
method of preserving the best quality of
the grape"
do you advocate the using of clarets
for the dinner drink, as is the custom here
in the South?" was asked.
Il do. This statement, of course, needs
some explanation, but in a general way
we are all brain workers. If after read
we Americans are apt to do, we rush to
our meals without a moments rest, then
it is necessary to have something with our
food TO draw the blood from the brain and
bring it to the stomach, where II will as
slst the digestion. AS for the alcoholic
effect of a glass of wine at dinner, IL prac-
tically amounts to nothing. Baked pota-
toes and UNDERGONE foods of all kinds,
foods badly cooked, salad, bread and hot
cakes will ferment in the stomach and
produce more alcohol than a glass of wine.
You must remember that we live on what
we assimilate and not on what we eat.
Brain workers are especially in need of
foods that will assimilate and assist each
other in digestion. If women would leave
off drinking green tea, thing which /
have been hamering at for years, there
would not be one-tenth the pale-faced,
sickly women which we meet everywhere
to-day. Green tea is dried on copper
plates; 1t has copper in its composition.
and it will tan the stomach. I would adj
wise these women to drink glass of caret
instead Of their green tea"
Mrs. Wait, do you ever drink wineY'
'sNo, / do not drink wine. If | did II
would ruin my delicate taste for testing
the liquid. Experts in every line cannot
indulge in the things which they must
test / do not drink a pint of wine In
twelve months. l never swallow wine
in testing II, unless il is a last resort in
making a technical examination for lac
teal fermentation. ] take the wine in
my mouth, and in that way / can test It's
every quality save this one thing of lac
tic tendencies. If | suspect that the sam
PIE IS in this condition, ! swallow a sip of
it, II it leaves the throat cool and re-
freshed, with "A soft and soothing effect
the wine is in a healthy condition. II il
leaves a hot effect upon the throat and
nostrils, it is undergoing Tactic fermenta-
ton. The highest compliment that can
pay the wine cellar keeper is that after
having gone through all the tests, swaI-
low a little sip in recognition of its per-
feet condition; you will at once see
smile play over his face, and he knows
that his wine is in good condition"
How about the improving OF wine with
ageY'
at is a grave mistake the public makes
in general that all wines improve with age
Here again wine Is like woman and age
does not always help il. I insist that
wine is feminine, and that all of its char
acteristcs are feminine. AS for the ug-
ing Of wine. Il will say that port and Ma
deira are improved by age, because Of the
excess Of sugar produced. Champagnes
and all high-grade clarets should not be
over years Of age for their best. Clar-
cts should not be aged in wood over three
years, then they should be bottled be-
cause they are ripe"
What Is your idea of serving wlnes?"
"Ahi that is a different story, and will
require another time but let me say that
serving wine is in itself one of the high
est arts. attained only through natural
ability and a study Of how II should be
done, just as the master artist reaches
his highest success and paints his grand
est pictures through careful and ever
patient application TO study and the ex-
ercise of his natural abilities. IL would
be impairment in me. however to say
anything about how TO serve wines here
10 this delightful old metropolis Of the
South when that art has attained the
highest degree among the Southern men.
There Is no place In the United States
where serving wine is done with so much
grace and beauty as here in New
Orleans"