The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-03-16
The Electric Cocktail
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America apparently. and I had never
heard of it here. the british endorse
ment is so NOBLE and so scientific
that it looks good t. me-" said a good
living Pittsburger q day or two ago.
We'll, what are you talking about"
asked some of his friends Of the So
cial club, where the conversation oc-
Cured.
The electric cocktail" was the SOL
emn answer. lit is said to have been
suggested. OF invented. by Eikola Tes-
la. the great electrical i~maginator. and
that is the only suspicious thing about
Tesla has invented which have had
no practical application. This cleo
trical cocktail. however. has been en-
dorsed by Sir Thomas Barlow, Bart,
president of the ROYAL College of
Physicians. and at a medical confer
ence for city men held a few days ago
at the Mansion house in London. You
know the Mansion house is the peren-
NAL residence of all the Lord Mayors
OF all the presidents of the United
States. The meeting was being held
there under the auspices of the lord
mayor, and this is a London report
of what the president of the Royal
College of Physicians said of the Tes-
la invention:
when YOU meet a friend in the city
don't offer him alcoholic stimulants;
treat him to an electric cocktail.
You do no set. after electric slim
ulation. the injurious reaction that al
ways follows a dose OF alcohol" he
said. A battery can be carried easily
and comfortably, I believe. ana there
is no reason why they should not come
Sir Thomas . Barlow had been ad.
dressing a medical conference for city
men, held in the Egyptian hall at the
Mansion house. under the presidency
of the lord mayor, to discuss "Alco-
hol and the Young Man Of Business
There We're many doctors on the plat
form.
Sir Thomas Barlow referred to the
insidious way in which alcohol pre-
sented itself to the business man. At
charity dinners the subscriptions only
began to come when the guests hearts
were warmed with drink. In COM
mercial life orders were got and bar
gains struck because the genial way
had been prepared by standing drinks.
lie was glad to say. however, that
there was not so much treating as
formerly, and that people found soda
water q sufficient stimulant to their
charitable impulses.
If we spent the time that ever now
We devote to drinking Dr. chewing our
food. and kept the solids and liquids
as much apart az possible during a
meal. We would do better for our
selves.
Alcohol only pretends to make you
warm. In fact it robs the body of
warmth. They take 1t at the
North pole.
When YOU feel you need a refresh
or" that is natures danger signal. II
means. not that YOU wan a drink. but
probably that you have already been
drinking too much.
Young men say alcohol helps them
in work. I know that it ruins their
Judgment. The drunken man gives
himself away-his tongue is loosened,
but his good sense is shackled.
81 am free to say" continued the
sented. and the reporter gives the
following interesting statements of the
trend of his remarks:
Urging that the correct advocacy
of temperance was to point out the
dangers of alcohol. the lord mayor
(Sir Thomas Crosby remarked that
II alcohol were such a poison as some
teetotalers said he should have been
dead years ago. and yet he stood
y "N Nv hSS vi o6s ldNtIS DScI
q moderate drinker all his life.
He called that temperance, and he
could tell them he was ever temperate
now. with all the temptations which
confronted him-and he could assure
them they We're not a few.
According 10 a scientific expert, the
best electric cocktail" is a battery
fitted at one end with a sponge. to be
passed across the face when the cur.
rent is set going. 1t is the only Ger.
tain cure for nervous headaches.
You can buy for under half a
guinea" he said. "a battery 3x4xe
inches. which can be carried in the
pocket. 1t will last you a month II
you use it an hour per day.
THAT is for long drinks Your
cocktail lasts about three minutes. bu,
as a remover OF energy there is nc
drink like it. and 1t is drier than
champagne or even ginger ale."
Now there YOU are" said the Pitts.
burger as a gnality. Both Sir Thorn
as Barlow and Sir Thomas Crosby
two Thomases. neither Of them doubt.
ing. recommend an electrical cock:
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