The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-10
TIPPING IN NEW ORLEANS.
Lots OF Sweetness and Originality in the
Creole Towns Mixtures.
From the Chicago Post.

Once upon n timc there was n gentle. sad-
eyed stranger who started out to do New
Orleans bibulously. This beginning has the
suggestion OF one OF Mr. AIDES illustrative
fables. but it is an DER true tale. The gentle
stranger had begun the day with two cups
of native beverage known as dripped coffee,
and he felt the need OF a counter irritant;
so he stepped blithely in and took unto and
into himself a sazerac cocktail. Then he
took another, and 10, he was organized. The
sazerac cocktail bears the same relation to
other cocktails which the lion sustains to the
sportive and innocent lamb. Its ingredients
are a mystery. but there is no uncertainty as
to its results. and it Is warranted to produce a
carnival which renders ustreless the pyro-
technical display OF Shrove Tuedsay.
Having reduced himself to condition
bordering on utter irresponsiblity through
the fierce recKiessness aforesaid. the stranger
rested for n few minutes and then applied
himself to a gin fzz The New Orleans gin
flzz is a sirenlike composition and is commonly
designated in the feminine gender. Relatively
it is harmless, as it is enticing, and it is much
sought after by ladies from the North whose
distin gui;hing emblem Is not white tbbon
safe suflcency. but their delicaoy and mild
ness would suggest the experience Of the
drank sixty or seventy glasses OF beer a
day without injury. but could not tell how
It you'd be IF man should make hog
Combining himself to the indigenous prod
ucts. the STRANGER next ~, aPpied MS energies
e Sea 6rsans 1ep sG met Superior n "T
to its Northern sister, AS, time i;s never
il this Agreeable asseta LEGALITY the
so ,hTs MIXTURE n and when he has finished
he the IN
W %p one s Of Mms. What very best
Easter eonfections; It seems indeed PITY PITY
busy day. and is be not investigating the
sosth re Sed RsSuE OF the sunny
In the regular order OF business it is now
time for the absinthe anisette. and again
1 poss f5F Of human ski and patience
In the Soh cb6 tsss
similar. But in New, Orleans. one begins
h1T h the ho nGs
tie pale green Iiauid which bbrsss an eostatic
81 the hro se ef Hep s' No
when I asked an old inhabltant the precise
abstnthe hour to have him reply: Any old
hour"
periments are not complete without 3 rou.
the first and only distinct disanuoiut nent;
1t seems 70 he merely nm old-fashtoned
whskev toddy. with about 9, per cent OF a
Years ago Sew Orleans was rraced by the
presence OF a gentleman, Of tn, name OF
RoNfgnac. I don't recall who he was or
what. he, did bit il APPEARS that when he
died he beq'eathed 70 his country the bev;
fiji Of rlory and vepnerati9n Personall". I
save execration. but possibly am prejii.
diced ,N
other troobles. II might be well to cons Y a
rep table physician. but If yoi vii listen
to the advice Of a Hnr old Southern ccntle-
man to whom, I once PIT the in? Try as to
his opini \ Of the Writ es OF straia hit whiskey.
yo', viii save a doctors fee, When YOU
have taken little ana no on hcd than the law
excellent. thing to sober ~ on" SO here
Tow do you feel after YOU have dono New
Orleans from the point Of view OF what the
society editors call a well-known club NAM"
Wen; the exne5imeptiny stranger vii tell
three. pounds Of chocolate creams, The
principal ingredient Of New Orleans drinks
Is s,gar, which. perhnps. IS not surprising
considering the proximity OF the sugar ocast