Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-05

The American pays ROYALTY" say
| the whole establishment at his feet
The Englishman is watchful AND
| done SO often. The South Ameri-
can is very generous. a grand drfnker.
:, but noisy. gay to Stiffness and quar-
I relsome in the late hours. Most Of
| the painful scenes in Paris night
restaurants are caused by South
Americans"
"Our breakage is $4,000 per year"
boosted the management.
Do they save it on their bills for
champagne?
! Can the new-rich and tourists
drink up the left for account to OF
Hungary. bleeding. Belgium and taxed
England?
The depleted stocks" it seems.
! may be reconstructed more rapidly
than the so per cent unchanged
vineyards of the Marine alone could
Who will tap It?
Because, although the commerce of
1913 was simply enormous, the pro-
| duction. annually, had been. even
more so, and the stocks were con-
i tinually accommodating.
The true champagne district ,(the
Marne) grew annually before the war
some $1,000, 900 quarts of grapejuice.
the real article. certain percentage
| was lost in breakage and process OF
manufacture. There had to be de-
Quoted. equally. the vast train
! loads Of ripe grapes and expressed
juice which used to be shipped an
nually to Germany. for mixing with
the better class of German cham
pagnes. -:
OF this true champagne, France her
self consumed 1000. 900 quarts, per
year The average foreign shipments
totaled to about 26.0o0,o 1000 quarts.
Thus were accounted for at least S3.-
000. 900 quarts Of the S7.o0o.oe0 quarts
less shrinkage) of annual production
very close to a balance. Yet the
subterreanean cities of Reims and
Epernay, on the arrival of the Ger
mans, contained that vast reserve of
80, 000, 900 quarts in bottles and &c.
0o0,0 quarts in casks.
How explain it? Quite easily. by
bearing in mind that the ancient
province of Champagne (Which GER
tainly gave its name to the wine) in
cluded two other modern French de-
partments. The Department Of the
Aube. in 1913. produced, by curious
and that of the Upper Marine. $780,
900 quarts of juice. which have not
yet been mentioned. Yet when they
sought to continue marking their bot
tied production Champagne" they. Of
the ancient champagne province un-
disputably. found legal difficulties
thrown in their way by the great in-
terests Of Reims. Tw years before
the war, 1t may be remembered they
had a veritable little near-revolution
up there in the Aube.
Many of these juices were very
good, although not the true Juice OF
the Marine. and the natives had this
extra grievance that, while they were
requested not to mark their juices
champagne" the great houses Of
Reims and Epernay exercised a right
to use their own judgment, about i'm
porting the same juices into the
Marine for iudicious mixing. They
could be trusted. in their own interest,
not to deteriorate their own cnvee.
And II the great firms must be trusted.
are the little ones to be distrusted?
Does honor go by size? It didn't.
For here. observe. is the crux: The
pure Juices of the Marne themselves
and when used exclusively. without
outside admixture, require to be
blended together in certain ways. to
produce their best. Champagne Is n
bouquet of MIXING.
STERLING uEut