Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-22

Haif-warned by experience. quantities OF
Frenchmen hesitate to take him to them
In his natural tint and name. Thus the
boulevard reeks with a hundred amers.
bitters. vemouths, cocas. yuineraires and
Gunfnes. All are called apertifs, or open
ers' OF appetite; because the theory and
the practice is that their hour is that be-
fore dinner. mixed with water. on an empty
stomach. Otherwise. but for this lmita-
ton. all France would have died already
rav-ng crazy.
know younger son of one of the great
English nobies-a historic housewife. hav-
ing been put through the drink cure in
London. kept straight through three years
in Mexico while raising cattle. We'll. he
came to Paris on a certainly well-merted
vacation. In state OF physical and moral
clean mess
He sat bereath an awning Of the bouIe-
ward at the green hour" IL was so bright
and gay and innocent. There were no
upsy people. Ladies dignified the con-
course almost in pr portion to the men
ms French friend took Amer Picon.
Mhats that he asked the waiter
poured IN a red syTuo. ''Currant,'' sad
ms French friend. filling un the goblet
with two thirds of water. Its good Try
Effect on the Gold Cure Graduate.
Now, the honorable Richard / am GER
tan, saw the syrup and the water and WIS
innocent He did not know that tb.
amer greenish- brown In the bottom M
TIE goblet was the raison de'etre of the
combination. When he stirred up the in
sredlents together. they had the mild taste
of "a soft drink
mao taken three gulps of the ioctored
s.rup-ahd-water, he told five days later
leit no warm alcoholic glow to put me
va my suard-but just a gentle brighten
ing dawning hopefulness a tender on
timism.
Initiating my French friend, | poured
III httle more water to nj Up the goblet
again no" could such diluted stun do
inn,t.i WIN Two more gulps 1 noticed the
leaves or boulevard trees had grown green
er. Inc women were prettier The mon
were taller and brisker and better dressed.
All Inc coors of the street were CAV
When told the garcon to bring anofb her
Amer Picon. | was surprised AT nv rneT,sv
II, french. understood the language an..
the people. ~
with the third glass | began TO see the
| boulevard. as it were, through Il kind az
moral magnifying glass / noticed every
| tnins-and all was clear How Interestingly
| Nhen a lady passed | noticed every detail
OF her costume. how tremendously COM
bned how smoothly undulated is her hair
! now those blonde tortoise-shelI combs 1
snail buy some to take back to London.
Madeleine-Bastille, three white horses
I Batignolles-Odeon. automob ie-omnibus cab
/ NO. 1854, compagne Crbaine urbanity
| totallty. times 4 is ~ \ times II is *
l remember picking up a Paris bust
ness directory from the table beside me- IL
| seemed splendid reading"
what happened to the Hon. Richard aft
erWard Is too much Anglo-Saxon for tie
| present purpose. He abused a subtle drink
| through lneXperience. Frenchmen do not
IhoSe who take three goblets have worked
| up by slow degrees from one.
Time to Ask for Money.
Such is their habitual self-controI: they
slow up with dilutions of pure water at the
| moral magnifyer stage and toddle off home
! to their dinner in state of mild expansion
! Their wives find them kindly. optimistic.
and make small objection II is the time
| to ask them for money.
Why not? The comparatively new ex-
| portation vermouth, two goGlets of which
caused 4 friend of mine from Washington
| to hear the song of little birds distinctly
| has for base the essence of the remedies
pres. chemically represented by salicyIic
aldehyde-a cubic demicentimeter of which,
placed on the tongue OF a dead dog will
cause it to lift up its head and feebly wag
its tail.
The Amer Picon has nine OTHER essences
besides the Remedies Pres There are
cocas in which the infusion OF the COO.
| leaves is overcharged with coo liue. A mn
begins 10 give away money when he has
drunk two of ttem. They are d-ugged alco-
hols, absinthodes, alCohoiats. alcoholaturcS
and tnctures that must be drunk diluted
with pure water. Only the inst nctiYe par
simony. the hlbitual self-watching of the
French has permitted them to play with
this green fire. Its slow work is unseen-it
Is hidden by the pride of fami les given
other names by doctors, but the long effect
is race degeneracy. STERLING HELLO.