Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-15
DRINKS IN CUBA,

New York Sun: Whatever the faults
OF the b may be he has one great
redeeming virtue. That is temperance in
the matter of strong drinks. A drunkard
is looked upon with disgust. He is an
outcast even from his own family. a
source of pity and contempt to his friends
and q person to be avoided on all occas-
ions, whether OF pleasure or of business.
Even the weakness of an occasional in.
diligence is looked upon with contempt
ana nothing can exceed the repugnance
with which this excitabie people regard
excess in this matter. They never can
understand the amount of spirits a native
OF a colder climate can stow underneath
his belt without injury to his head, and
some of the performances of our volun-
teer soldiers, released for a few hours
from military control, left them in a state
OF establishment. A few admiring natives
in the early days of Santiago, and with
the first blush of gratitude to the great
American nation still mantling the land,
essayed our national product of the rye.
But the experiment was not a success.
ana next morning their VOWS of abstiA
nence from the devil drinks of the Ameri-
cans We're made-and in most instances
kept.
Except an occasional pony of French,
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confines himself strictly to those drinks,
designed as 'refrescos.'' long, soft and
cooling. Wine, which all over Cuba is
cheap and of good quality, he drinks of
literally. At every meal at a cafe a bot.
tie OF "Rioja Clarete' is placed at the ell
bow of the diner, and at the private
boarding house it is not an extra in the
monthly bill. The price is about 10 cents
a pint in bottle. "Nive Catalan" the bet
ter grade table wine. is dark claret col
cred, of good body and not SO acrid as the
French claret. .'sVino Blanco." a heavy
sweet white wine. is much less used. The
favorite non-aleoholic drink is "leche con
panales.' The 'tpanale" is the white of
eggs beaten with sugar until when dry it
forms a cloud-like substance, crisp, brit
tie, and similar in shape to a. mornin,
roll. 'Panale' making is a regular pro-
%fession in Havana. and a good manufac-
turer commands high wages in the cafes
| and restaurants
When the soldiers first went to Cuba
they We're much exercised over the use of
the panale. Huge heaps filled the coun-
ters of the stores and much mystified the
rough warriors. 1t is not a food and not
a sweetmeat. 1t could not be touched
without crumbling into a thousand
pieces. Many We're bought and expert
mented with before, Its use as a sweet
ener for milk was ascertained. The drink
is insipid but not unpleasant.
"~Naranjada' is composed of several
slices of oranges, a little lime, settler, ice
and sugar "Ensalada' is a curious cold
fruit stew of sliced pine. mango, orange,
lime, pear, settler, ice and sugar. OR
chata" is a mild milk punch. 'Cebada"
a favorite drink in the interior, is made OF
sweetened barley water slightly ferment-
ed. "Agraz' is the juice of unripe grapes
diluted with settler and sWeetened with
honey. "GoraDina" is a pungent fer
mented in fusion or pineapple and sweet
ened with sugar. "Yacamaya" is an aer-
ated cider, strong and heavy. In addi-
ton to these there are the ordinary sodas
and pops with which Americans are ac-
puainted at home.
There is distilled at Santiago, and there
alone, by the eminent gentleman who is
now mayor of hat city, a rum which is
famous all over Cuba, and indeed in other
islands of the sea-. 1t is the we'll kn4.1n
"Bocardi,' a pure. pale amber colored
liquid which experts declare to be an al
most perfect drink in that climate Some
of our many doctors vilely mathematical
it during the campaign, but the natives
declare it. when taken in moderation, tho
most wholesome drink of the country. IT
certainly is alluring. if not indeed fas-
cinating. The garrison at Santiago have
taken to it very kindly and under the
guise of eel misino' CBocardi and ~seltzer1
it is one of the first tokens of fellowship
at the Cosmopolitan club
General Leonard Wood has Endorsed it
and as he is a doctor as we'll as a Yer,