The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-08-29

nice bottle of claret as you want to
see. We make our Rhine wine and
! Sauterne by using a little real sherry
as a base. To this add citric acid,
fannie acid (for the dry favor,) alco-
hol and water-and there's your Sau-
terne. If you want a sweet wine,
like Chablis, we substitute white SUI
gar syrup for the tannic acid. If you
want your wines aged, we add little
observation-disclosures glucose does the
trick, too"
/ learned from that wine man that
brandy was faxed by using wood al
cohol as a base, adding silent spirit
and oenanthic ether, and coloring and
sweetening with caramel Cordials
were faxed too. All the mixer did
was to line up his bottles of benzoic
acid, benzoic either, acetic acid and
ether, oenanthic ether and glycerine.
He used little of each, added wood
or potato alcohol, added few drops
of cochineal and there's your cherry
brandy! Fake booze brought prohibit
ton.
I'm going to show up most of the
brewers, too; not all, for some did
try to make honest beer. Honestly,
though, in my experience, / drew
mighty little pure beer from the tap.
Beer should be made from fermented
| infusions of malt favored with hops.
In Europe, beer must be lagered,
stored for three months. Few Ameri-
can breweries could keep their beer
in lager for three months. It would
so putrefy as to be worthless. That
is because many of our brewers used
a ferment which was not inspected
by the government and was not al
ways pure. So their beer fermented
rottenly. To overcome the putrefac-
ton, the brewers added arsenious
acid, white arsens or salicylic acid
which latter when used long time
did more harm to the kidneys and
liver than booze ever did.
Tuck this away in your mind and
try tiff you can get bottle of beer
for the experiment. Pure beer can
be kept indefinitely, even in the SUM-
Impure beer left in the sunlight for
few days will Ego crazy" The
bugs in it, caused by rotten fermen-
tation, will, in the sunlight, get busy
and rot the beer; and it will burst
the bottle Try it in the sun, using
a beer not bottled in brown glass.
For that is why some brewers use
brown glass bottles-not caring to
risk explosions.
Those, then, are the drinks, honest
and false, which went down American
| throats.
Why do men drink? AS watched
and served men, it seemed to me that
they drank to Gift themselves" The
alcohol gave an exhilaration that
changed dullness and WEAKNESS into
a false flashing feeling of being alive.
Then some drink for the dreamy for
getfulness, a dangerous indifference
to actualities-a poisonous and high
| ly-prized mood for men to attain.
Men liked to drink together because
of the way alcohol let down the bars.
I have seen timid men become bold ;
and men of few words, "hard boiled"
fellows, become voluble takers. Men
who when stark sober could "let
themselves CO." men who were in
dread of convention, were utterly diff
ferent beings when they drank
which is why they drank. For alcohol
made most men bold. Most timid
men like the feeling of boldness.
You see, have watched the effects
of alcohol and I know that it's first
effect is on the nerves; that is the
feeling of being Gifted" the "pick
up" the "glow," briefly, stimulation
by alcohol hurried the heart action.
The stomach glowed and felt fine;
that was caused by the alcohol max
ing the blood vessels expand through
increased pumping from the heart
| That made man think drink had
warmed him up" The brain got the
stimulation 1t seemed easier for him
to think. He glowed. That was the
first effect of drink.
When they had one drink, l noticed
that men wanted to talk. When they
had a number of drinks, they still
wanted to talk-generally about
themselves.
Such boasting as have CHANGED to
hear while serving customers drink!
There were men who came into
our place, who, l believe, drank SIM
ply to get up the courage to talk
about themselves. l have noticed that
the more they had to drink the less
discrimination they showed. They
would buttonhole anybody, buy drinks
for anyone who would listen to them.
The more they drank, the more they
prattled and the more they lied.
observed that a heavy drinker was
generally Mery selfish. His donations
to Salvation Army girls, begging nuns
and the like, were most often inspired
not by generosity, but by desire to
show off--to give away money with
everybody looking on. 1t was lack
of mental balance which made him