The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-08-04

OF ali American drinks the mint
iulep" and the cocktail take first
rank in public favor. and ''mixologists''
have met signal failures in all their
efforts to mix the fluid in manner
which can tickle the throttle so de-
lightfully as these two world-famous
connections.
The genesis of the mint julep has
been the subject of discussion in news
papers on various and sundry occa-
sions. and some writer's have stoutly
maintained that it is the invention of
eminent scholars and statesmen of the
present day. Others go little more
literally and say the julep came into
popularity within the past century.
1t is not difficult to trace the history
of this enhancing and seductive beV-
erage back to the middle of the six
teenth century. In the memoirs OF
Jeremy Lane (Salem, 1649), reference
is made to a drink compounded OF
mint herb and heating spirits, Whicn
is grateful to the palate when cooled
in a stone jug at the spring, Whle
the Boston Gazette of August IL, 1885,
contains a local item in which occurs
the statement that the "droWneoed
man was known to have drunk several
goblets of a mixture composed or Hol-
land gin favored with mint before ne
fell off the wharf The Gazette ADDS
that this should be an example 10
those who have lately formed the haolt
of imbibing with too much frequency
what the publikans and tavern-keepers
call mint dewlip."
"Julep' is evidently a corruption OF
the proper name, and one which is
due to the heaviness of the pronoh-
citation of those who formed the nab
Bit of ordering it.
MeMaster, the historian, in one OF his
books. quotes from the diary OF an
Fnglishman who Travelled in Virginia
early in the eighteenth century and
who makes mention of drink nav
ored bv bruising mint" How LONG
prior to this the Virginians had en-
loved the bruised mint and liquor
viii. perhaps, never be recorded, but
the nresent day imbibers in the good
old state stick to the mint juluep with
bulldog tenacity. They were drinking
the seductive connection long before
Daniel Boone penetrate into the IN
ternofnable forests of Kentucky, &c
which state some writer's have endeav-
ored to award the claim of the birth
Mace of the mint julep. If history
must decide. the mint julep orig
| mated in Massachusetts although
# is generally believed to be southern
product.
That cornwall institution known as
the cocktail was ushered into this
world of trouble during the days of thu
American revolution, and the origin o.
the peculiar appellation given this es-
san+ia1lv American oncoction, which
has gone the length and breadth of the
civilized world into the clubs where
r,ep-and women, be il acknowledged
congregate, makes interesting reaolns
During the period of the reVolutloi
ono Patrick Flanagan, a jolly ana pop
Mar freshman, enlisted in a company
of Virginia cavalry. He had re'ehti-
married an Irish girl who was lhtehsel'
A,,,arican in her sentiments, ana Wht
,,-as determined to go with her Patrici
,,-T,,rever she could. The officers were
,..sovr,ed of her intentions, and in IN
.,.i+ of finn encouraged her. but sh'
made herself useful in so many wy
that she became recognized as d heT re-,
sarv adjunct TO the company a.,
husband died, and the colonel OF IN,
co1npanv asked the young widow wl,a
she would do. now that her nus o an
vas gone. She stoutly declared ina a
n ",t1 would part her from her De
led company if they would allow ne ne
- remain. This so pleased the oILl 's'e =,
49, IN a few days she was inforine'