The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-14

AaAn a uaSh or BEdlASs AS OAS oA bAAS faYorite drinks. The Icelanders have : a drink concocted from the glands Of the whale that is terrific in its effect although only 10 drops are used in a glass of sweet wine or sweetened water.
 The most delicious drink, which the New Orleans ''mixologist" awards the prize, even over his beloved ab- sinthe, was sent to him in a bottle by a correspondent who found 1t in Gen. tral Australia where it was used by the natives who dared try it-having no keyholes to find. The drink is made of wild honey, mixed with pep permint gum-"just add water and serve" The taste, he declares, beats anything he ever found, with the wild taste of the honey accenting the de- licious flavor of the gum.
 ! "The Dutch.' declares the booze historian, "are perhaps the most un- i healthful drinkers in the world. They drink huge quantities of rum and gin, and this on top of diet of smoked eels, hard boiled eggs and piclzled cu- i cumbers, with much smoking is not ! conducive to good digestion" Per- l haps not-yet the writer says the 1 Dutch do better on it than they do when they attempt to fight American whiskey.
 The old warning, Don't mix your drinks" appears from a persual of 1 Neeaire's work to apply to nations as well as individuals. He cites numer- ous instances of nations figuratively going under the table, on foreign drinks that could absorb unknown quantities of their home booze with out becoming spifficated," as he poeti- cally terms it. The Australians are an example. They swallow the honey l peppermint decoctions in immense quantities, but went all to pieces un- 1 der mead from New South Wales.
 "Berbers in Northern Africa have learned this lesson," he writes. "They drink great quantities of delicious homemade wine, made from grapes, but refuse and become true Moham- medans when offered foreign drinks. They drink a mixture of sour wine with fermented goats milk, which is said it taste better than 1t sounds" One of the greatest drinks Necaire found was among the Uganda natives in Africa, called banana wine, which like cider, or Indian, is good only for a few days. The bananas, whole, are placed in a hole in the ground lined with green leaves and trampled. Then water is added, the hole covered and left for a few days, when hay is
 mixed Into 1t. Then 1t is placed in a wooden trough and water is added and the mass stirred. The liquid drips into pans, and for 24 hours is delicious, then it ferments and be- comes q rival of the famous ''dyna- mite" of the London slums, made of ether, mixed with wine or beer.
 'Musibi," which is the Uganda drink, is declared worse than the bino of the Philippines, which the natives have learned to mix with gin.
 "The Bulgarians,'' says the bar tender would make ideal customers They drink light sour wines, mixed with waters. At festivals they drink freely, but never fight, TOWN, quarrel or sing.
 'The queerest drunks in the world
 are participated in by the Koriaks and the Kamehatkans of Northeastern Siberia. Whole tribes, nuinberihgs hundreds of men and women, get drunk and stay drunk weeks at a time on the fly mushroom. They need on the fly mushroom. They need no mixing of drinks. Either to eat the fungus on drink the water in which it may be boiled means one glorious round of pleasure for week or more.
 [ ."The Buriats of Siberia acquire their passionate love of drinking from the Russians. The drink from the cradle-vodka, diluted in dozen ways They drink also fermented goats milk something like kumyss which they mix with i1toxicants I children smoke at years and drink
 before that. -.-. z--.-....s ,
 "One drink, which has been im- ported into England as q medicine, is the famous drink from the root of
 the pepper tree, made by the Ffjians and used at their great restivals, where everyone gets 'soused.' This
 drink is hot and not unlike the red
 pepper an celry drinks found among
 Spanish-A Americans. The Fijians
 also have a wine from vegetable
 like the tomato, and a bread fruit
 drink"
 The cordials open a new line. The
 most delicious is the Yorkshire Violet
 made from the crushed flower, home
 brewed. It is mixed with liquids and
 holds the delicious flavor of the flower. The cordial brewed from wild } honey in Absinnia is also delicious
 The Abysinnians make the best mead
 in the world from barley and wild ] honey. They live on the other side } of the earth, so perhaps, everything is
 backward there-at least the temper
 ance cranls rave about the drinking
 of milk and coffee, and forbid it by
 law, and the lips of any native whe r smokes are cut off.
 The Admiralty Islanders know nothing of Intoxicating drinks. The nearest they come to them is a cocoa
 nut milk mixture, served In carved tortoise shells. The contrast is fur nished by the Apono tribe in French
 Congo, which uses huge quantities oi
 palm wine. These people drink and quarrel and fight and give huge ban i, quets, at which everybody "gets { 3 beautiful bun on." The palm wine il
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