The Washington herald., 1913-09-17
tCopyrisht. 1918. b A. D. Jacobson.y

/ l nc laltSl dQuluOu 10 llle already long
list OF insignia with which the English
man may earn the right to adorn him
self is the Memorial of Merit OF St.
Charles the Martyr"
| Appointments TO the new order will not
form part Of the Kings birthday and OF
| the usual New Year honOrs, for it is at
present OF a somewhat unofficial Charac-
ter, being controlled by a body of church.
men Clerical and layl. known as The
Chapter" who are in full sympathy with
the Catholic and Apostolic position OF
the Church OF England"
| The FIRST Chapter" of the Memorial
Order has been constituted as follows:
| The Earl of Strathmore, the Earl of
Shaftesbury. Mr.. H. s wheatley-Crowe,
: president Of the Royal Martyr Church
! Union; the Rev. Canon D. Macleanc,
! Proctor in ConvOcatiOn: the Rev Vernon
Staley, chaplain and registrar date Pro-
vOst Of Inverness CathedraD, and OF one
| alternative member, the Earl of Castle
Stuart.
Those who are selected for the honor
will have the privilege Of buying a silver
medallion in the shake of an eight-point-
ed star, with an effigy OF King Charles
! in the center, surrounded by n blue
enamel band bearing the name OF the
Memorial Order"
| The order is to be Of purely religious
character and distinction appertaining to
the Church of England" and its pur-
poses are:
| L That it shall be a special Memorial
to the sacred memory OF Charles the
First, King and Martyr, who gave his life
for the Church of England: and
=. That it shall be offered as a token
of regard and honor to members OF the
Church of England (and the churches in
communion herewith who have served
the church in some special way.
The chapter will endeavor first TO
recognize faithful service, and no distinc-
ton will be made in the choice of can
didates, but endeavor will be made to
keep the memorial membership to those
who are primarily faithful and earnest
Christians.
The Bryan grape juice campaign has
prompted the English press to discuss
drinks, old and new" Cider. which in
England is termed the best summer
drink. was eulogized as far back as 1857
| by the Royal Society as ''the richest.
strongest. and most pleasant tasting wine
| that England yields or is ever likely TO
! yield" There was no attempt TO palm il
| off as Temperance" drink According
as it is managed. it proved strong
| Rhenish, Barrack, even pleasant Canary,
sugared Of itself. or as rough as the
fiercest Greek wine, keeping as long as
three years, so that no mortal can say
at what age it is past its best. 1t was
kept until it burned as quickly as sack,
drew the fame like naptha, and fired
the stomach like aqua vitae"
The most invigoratinE of all drinks,
according to George Stevens, was the
'Abu Hamed." which he sampled when
marching with Kitchener to Khartoum.
1t was compounded of gin, vermouth,
angostura, lime juice, and soda, and its
effects were wonderful" TT spreads
bIessedly through body and spirit, not
swirling through like the Atbara, but ir-
rigating like the Nile. 1t is soil in the
sand, substance in the wind, life in death
Your sap runs again, your biltong mus
cles take an elasticity. your mummy
bones tougher; yourself has sprung up
alive, and you almost think you know
how it feels to rise from the dead"
The recipes of many old English drinks
are a secret now. Monsieur Sorbiere, in
his Journey to London in the Year
1885," mentions the names OF several
popular liquors which mystified him (as
they do us). Who for instance, knows
the composition OF "Humtle Dumtie,"
Three Threads" "Old Pharaoh" Hug
matee," "Clabmer Clown" Hot Poss,"
Blind Penneaux." or "Stiffie?''
And centuries hence perhaps the peo-
pie will be puzzling over the strange
names OF the drinks of the present day,
the mysteries of the various colored seals
and lables, the lost scarlet of the three
and other stars, and the identity Of the
pedestrian whose name and drink were
popular in all London hostelries of the
twentieth century; and photographers
will wonder who was the John Collins or
the Lloyd Sanders who gave their names
to a drink.
II you want a really mixed drink, let
me recall Cbut not recommenD the
corpse reviver'' of South Africa. You
take 1t when in search of a spree and
an early grave You go into the bar,
and into a large glass pour a little from
every bottle in the place. Mix well, and
swallow it at a draught, regardless of the
expense. South Africa, from which
comes the recipe of this champion mixed
drink, also is the birthplace of drink
named after a great man-Bismarck.