The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-09-14
FASHION IN DRINKS.
old-Time Bartender Disappears with
Old Beverages.

brooklyn Eagle
The change in drinking habits during
the past quarter of century Is as. great
as 1t Is i'm any other matter VI public
concern. The man VINO would enter a
barroom today and ask for sherry
cobbler would be stared at. If he we're 20
ask for a mint julep. and was one vino
has ideas on the subject, he would be
more likely torbe profane than delighted
over 1t. An order for a port wine san
garee would send the modern blrkeeper
to. the dictionary, and call in the winter
days for "a hot apple. = a Tom and Jerry
or "a hot spiced rum would lead to re-
marks on the part of the barkeeper about
the Paleosoic~ age. and the number. o.
the dead ones walking around not prop
erly informed as to the date of tneii
demise. Yet but quarter of century
ago all of these drinks were commonly
served from behind the bar.
In tn. winter time 4 large china bowl,
in which reposed the beaten eggs and STU
gar, which. when the liquor was poured
in. mad. the toothsoale Tom and Jerry,
was one of the ornaments of the bar,
surrounded. rs it was, with tempting
china mugs. Those are never seen in
these latter days. nor the baked arcles
kept warm for the hot apple toddy These
Is no demand for Them apparently. Bran
dy smashes have given way to gin
rickeys and whiskey sours to high balls.
Indeed. hot Scotch whistles, wilich pow
erful and comforting beverage of cold
and stormy night were so popular a few
years ago, are rarely called for now.
Cocktails still hold place in the popular
regard, but with amendments and modifi-
cations that would make the old imbiber
and concocter sad. They figure as Mar
TINS and Maintains, poor substitutes
in hA ind 0f old dri fny ha
architectural cocktails of o,ir youth, with
their foundation of bitters and syrup,
elevation of GIN wh!skey or brandy. as
within or taste dictated, coping Of twisted
leman peel and cornice Of brown sugar
about the brim. All of these artistic mix
past. The demand at the har is for beer
or straight whiskey. varied only by an
| occasional call for high balls. ~, II
With these vanished drinks have gone
| also the old time barkeeper, who was al
once guide. philosopher and friend to the
community and with whom you began
the day, in confidential consultation as
to the best method of correcting quickly
| the condition of your stomach consequent
| upon indulgence in his skill in mixed
drinks the night before, An entirely diff
ferent type has succeeded him-one who
makes the bar a frigid barrier agains;
intimate social interc ourse--one to whom
a mixed drink Ia an abomination and
who ignores the shaker for the use of.the
stirrer-one. who looks upon the old time
mixer with his skill and address in, toss
ing a drink from one glass to tiiother
until it formed a rainbow in front of
him, as. we do the efforts of an aero
| bat-very pretty but of no use. The old
barkeeper is lost in the leveiing In
huences of tht time.
In these days one might as well drink
| in one place as another but in those
halcyon days when we destroyed our
stomachs and invited indigestion and
was an individuality and we went to
| one place for our Tom and Jerry, where
the presiding genius had reputation:
to another for our whlskey sours. an
other for our smashes and yet another
for our cobbiers and punches. There
must be many left who remember the
hot Scotches of old Cobweb Hall and
how we made excursions to the old New
York Fl otel bar to drink one of the Ma
jor's mint juleps, as much pleased with
the solemn CIR, with which the artist
constructed 1t and the intense and re-
spectful interest in the proceedings man.
ifested by the Southerners who made the
their abiding place as with the result
itself. The habits are sadly changed.
There may be less indigestion. hut then
there is legs of the picturesque in the
habit and custom of drinking