The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-10-18
SAYS COCKTAILS
ARE BAD LURES
British Aristocrat Veno-
nous in Denouncing
Modern Drinking
.DESPISES LAW COURTS
Refuge of Proletariat,' Duel
the Gentleman's Way Out,
Sportsman Declares

LONDON.--"The cocktail is pols.
ouous. worse than that. 10 Is an in
sidlous drink which lures ita ad-
diets TO worse misery than any real
drugs have ever done!" That IN
the latest pronounccment OF Sir
claude Champion de Cresplgny, the
last OF the old Corinthians in London
and whose ancestors came over Wltu
william the Conlucror.
Sir Claude represents the last OF
the old feudal knights. Every Mon
day night. In season or out Of sea-
son. he flls--and very well fills az
that--the same seat at the National
Sporting club. when that institu-
ton puts on It's usual boxing pro-
gram.
hut is Is TO some other age that
Sir Claude belongs. a few months
ago a cousin OF his whose name
and armorial bearings are writ
large In Burko's and De, brett's
PeeragCs. offended the old gentle
man on some matter OF family dp-
putc, and law case was threat
cued. Sir Claude startled London
society and the aristoCracy by de-
clining to Join issue with his aristo-
cratic relative In court and chal-
lenged him instead to a duet.
Dcnounccs Law Courts.
THE law courts" he said. "are,
the refuge of the proletAriat. No
blemen and gentlemen must settle
their disputes on the field of honor.
with rapiers in their hands. and not
have the family secrets argued over
by middle-Class lawyers and decided
by low w-class jurymon."
SO serious was he that the king
had to intervene, but the affair had
60 be settled outside the law courts.
u was In the Sationa! Sporting
club that the International News
Service correspondent ordered a
double Martini for his friend from
Texas, and by good fortune our
seats were next 10 the one occupied
by the bold baronet aforemen-
toned.
lie spluttered over his hair pint
OF 'ruity port when he heard the
order and gave vent TO his indigna-
tion. That's the curse OF the agel"
ne doomed. concentrated dr.ak-
ing. You merely drink cocktails
because you achieve tho feelings of
drunkenness without any OF the
pleasure OF appeasing your thirst
Go on drinking these cocktails, with
their wild, hilarious results. and you
VIII have this country as dry as
America.
Good. wholesome drink never
harmed anybody. Damn! A man
il a man who can drink his stoup
Of ale or his pint OF port. but what
is there TO those fiddling thimble-
fulA OF concentrated alcohol That
: a mystery to me.
Drink for EFFECT"
Look at all you young men. You
merely take a drink for the after
sensations---nut to quench an hon
est thirst. That Is why you scorn
wholesome homc-brewed ale or
health-giving port and take TO those
po.sonous Concoctions invented by
some devil In a hurry. Bah!'
And. like all gentlemen OF his
class, Sir Claude wrote to the Times
about it. That raised the interest
ing question of the origin OF the
cocktail, and very soon the discus
sion In the newspapers became aca-
dcmic and historical.
one historian Ga gourmet, as
well) traced the origin OF the cock
tail to thu old cockfighting days at
Hampton court, when the owner Of
the victorious gamecock stood