The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1920-06-17

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There are wine takers, too. One day.
when was tending bar in a we'll
With him was a wine man who was
saying, Put in my line of wines. and
every price will be so low that you'll
increase your profits" That sounded
like false goods to me and asked him
how they did it.
oh, easy" he laughed. We've got
some chemists who are wonders. They
take a little California wine, some
water, some vinegar and potato alcohol
and turn out as nice a bottle of claret
as you want to see. We make our
Rhine wine and Sauterne by using a
little real sherry as base. To this add
citrfc acid, fannie acid (for the dry
tiavor), alcohol and water-and there's
your Sauterne. II You want sweet
wine. like Chablis. we substitute white
sugar syrup for the fannie acid. If YOU
want your wines aged. we add little
observation-disclosures glucose does the
trick too
/ learned from that man that brandy
was faxed by using wood alcohol as Il
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 ether,
acetic acid and ether. oenanthic ether
and glycerine. He used little of each,
added wood or potato alcohol. added a
few drops Of cochineal and there's your
cherry brandy! Fake booze brought
about prohibition.
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, l drew mighty little
pure beer from the tap. Beer should
be made from fermented infusions of
malt favored with hops. In Europe,
beer must he lagered, stored for three
months. Few American breweries could
keep their beer in lager for three
months. 1t would SO putrefy us to be
worthless. That is because many of our
brewers used a ferment which was moi
inspected by the government and was
not always pure. SO their beer fer.
nented ,Dttenly. TO overcome the pu.
trefication, the brewers added arsenious
acid. white arsens or salicylic acid
which latter when used a 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 IA bottle of beer fol
the experiment. Pure beer can be kept
indefinitely. even in the sun. Impure
beer left in the sunlight for few days
will g 90 crazy" The bugs in it. caused
by rotten fermentation, will, in the
sunlight, get busy and rot the beer
and it will burst the bottle. Try it il
the sun. using beer not bottled in brown
glass. For that is why some brewers
use brown bottles-not caring to risl
explosions.
Those, then. are the drinks, honest
and false. which went down American
threats.
Why do men drink? As l watched
and served men. it seemed to me thai
they drank to lift themselves" The
| alcohol gave IN exhilaration tn a,
changed dullness and WEAKNESS into 9
false flashing feeling of being alive
Then some drink for the dreamy forget
fulness, dangerous indifference to act
ualities-a poisonous and highly-prizet
mood for men to attain. Men liked tx
drink together because of the way alco
hOl let down the bars. ! have seel
timid men become bold; and men o.
| few words, hard boiled fellows
become voluble takers. Men who whel
/, stark sober could let themselves go,
| men who were In dread of convention
were utterly, different beings when the!
drank-which is why they drank. Fol
alcohol made most men bold: Mos
| timid men like the feeling of holiness
You see, have watched the effect
of alcohol and know that its frs
effect Is on the nerves; that is til,
feeling Of being lifted" the pick up.
the " glow" briefly. stimulation by alec
hol hurried the heart action. TIL
stomach glowed and felt fine; that wa
| caused by the alcohol making the bloc,
vessels expand through increased pump
! ing from the heart. That made a MAJ
think drink had warmed him up.
The brain got the Stimulation l
seemed easier for him to think. HI
glowed. That was the first effect 0
drink
1 When they had one drink. notice
that men wanted to talk. When the
had a number of drinks, they sti
wanted to talk-generally about then
selves.
/ Such boasting as l have CHANGED t
hear while serving customers drinks!
/ There were men who came into on
place, who, I believe, drank simply {
get up the courage to talk about then
selves. | have noticed that the NOR
they had to drink the less discrimin;
= ton they showed. They would buttoI
hole, anybody, buy drinks for any on
who would listen to them. The MOI
they drank, the more they prattled an
the more they lied. / observed that
heavy drinker was generally selfisl
His donat lions to Salvation Army girl
begging nuns and the like, were mo.
often inspired not by generosity, bt
by desire to show off-to give ava
money with everybody looking OH.
was lack of mental balance whic
made him throw away money he coul
not afford.
In watching men drink, formed
theory. Some booze affected men wors
than other booze. / decided that la
tended should prescribe for his custoI
ers. was a dispenser of alcohol; III
one customer could stand more alcoh
than another. A bartender who co
s Sidprnd fha lnixinu and SERVING,