The Savannah morning news., 1901-08-14
THE NEWEST SUMMER DRINK.
Military Cup, a Nectar of the Gods
and How to Make 1t.

and How to Make 1t.
From the st. Louis Globe Democrat.
A cup of cold water is an excellent
thing, but there are better ones in
midsummer.
The woman who will not drink any,
thing she can get in summer, and the
man who will not drink everying in
sight when the dog days are here are
both of them, separately and collec-
lively, misguided souls.
Each spring the ingenuity of the bar
room physician is taxed to provide new
summer drinks for his patrons. Fortu-
nately for him most of them are of a
kind that demand quantity rather than
quality. For the former he can toss to-
gether ice, water, whisky, a lemon and
berry and call it By a new name.
For the latter he must invent some
| thing novel and good and must serve it
in an exclusive way.
Before the invention of the ice shak-
err the summer drink was but crude.
The ingredients were not properly
mixed, nor were they cold enough. One
felt as though slipping melted ice at
the close, while the beginning was soft
and insipid. Now it is all shaken to-
gether in one well-fiavored mass and
slipped or drunk outright. as the palate
and the condition of the parch or the
stomach may suggest.
The drink of the summer is called
military cup. 1t is not a temperance
drink, but it is of the sort that can
be made temperance by those who do
not approve of claret and some of
the other ingredients of the cup
1t takes cracked ice, or shaved Ice,
though cracked ice is better, a cut-in-
two lemon, a bottle of claret, a ST.
phon of settler, and few other things
dependent upon the audience.
The girl who can not mix a summer
drink, and the latest drink in particu-
lar-the military cup-can not hope to
be a social success. Should she have
drifted along to this stake in her sum-
mer career and not have learned It,
let her at once take lessons and be-
come an adept 1t is quite easy to
learn summer drink mixing, and in a
few days one can even become an ex-
pert, for drink mixing is like chatting
dish cooking; it can be mastered If one
goes at il heart and SOUL and, to the
majority of women, it sort of comes
natural" as our New England cousins
would say.
The girl who is going to mix summer
drinks should dress for her task. Her
| waist TluSl pretty bub Spolb-
able II must take a dash of lemon
with impunity and pass unscathed I'M
der a vichy bath. 1t should be quite
proof against chance squirtings and
leave the girl free to go on with heI
task without worry.
! TO make the summer drink let the
girl who is to do the work provide her.
self with the tools. A cook without a
mixing spoon is not more helpless than
! the summer drink mixer without her
| glass, her ice hammer, her bowl and
! her bottle. There are ever so many
things for the up-to-date drink mixer
to use. She should have the inverted
tin cups, for the shakings of the fluid
she should have a tiny ice shaver; she
should be able to command a baby
lemon squeezer, and she should know
just where to reach for the brandy bot
tie, the whskey flask and the char
| treuse as we'll as the claret.
For the benefit of those who do not
believe in nontemperance summer
| drinks IL can be stated that these
| things sound much stronger than they
really are. Halt wine glass of brandy
| distributed through a gallon punch
| bowl of cracked ice and lemon and
sugar will not do a full-grown man