Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-18

N ance Union got their heads together
over o perplexing problem. They
couldn't and wouldn't serve alcoholic
cocktails before dinner, but they nad 70
acknowledge that often guests seemed 70 OK. sx.
pect something before they went into the
dining room
az always serve q tangy fruit cocktail first.
because T find that 1t seems to take on just
that awkward little pause" one OF them voiun-
teered.
But why serve anything at all?" one OF
the women somewhat rebelliously asked. i
am prohibitionist and proud OF 1t. MY
friends know it and they don't expect any
thing don't see why should"
..But why not?" Immediately spoke up the
uractical-minded Mrs. Roxana Doran, the wife
of the United states prohibition commissioner.
James M. Doran. Here We nave perIecGy
delicious fruit juices from which all sorts OF
pleasing combinations can be made. why
relieve an awkwardness Of wait before dinner
until all the guests have arrived? They add TO
the enjoyment of every one and, furthermore.
they are excellent appetizers"
Thus the organization unwittingly inaugurated
something that has swept the country. House.
wives from Maine to Texas and from Florida 70
Oregon wanted to know how they make their
kickless cocktails.
The ever-present prohibition discussion has
made the American housewife .cocktail-con-
scious To serve or not to serve has been for
her q momentous question
shares the temperance convictions OF his wife,
and such wives. who are seriously anxious to
keep down friction In the family feel that they
either have to 60 against their own principles
or find some clever way to meet the need OF
:. those guests who look IS though they would
like to have q cocktail. Kickless cocktails have
been the answer.
alcoholic prototype. The cocktail with kick
starts of a dinner with excitement and noisy
babble. but as food Is consumed the effect wears
!. on and by 10 pm. everybody In yawning. The
non-alcoholic appetizer, however. aids digestion
and the evening wakes better and better under
the natural stimulus Of good food and good
conversation. And there are no fuzzy mouth
and aching head on the morning after.
MRS DORIAN believes that in the future the
association Of cocktails with alcohol win
lose its significance and to the coming genera
lions cocktail will mean only an appetizer con-
oOcted of fruit and vegetable juices.
At the first meeting Of the non-alcoholic food
products department Of the w. G. T. u. Mrs.
Doran, who has been chosen its national
director, decided to put her theories about the
non-alcoholic cocktail to test The cocktail
she served at the luncheon was good enough to
set all the women talking. The idea was stimu-
1ating even II the cocktail wasn't. An enter.
prfsing newspaper man put the story about the
cocktail in the paper-and, behold! SNOWFALL
started rolling down q mountain.
Since that time she has been deluged from all
parts of the United States with requests for
recipes, with the result that she exhausted all
the recipes she knew and began collecting them
from her friends and finally was forced to resort
70 asking famous hostesses throughout the
Nation for their recipes.
One homemaker to whom she was recently
introduced greeted her with the animated ques-
ton: "Are you the cocktail lady?" Followed
by the inquiry: "FIow do you make that famous
cocktail anyway"
So she is now compiling the recipes she has
gathered in q volume which will shortly be
available to the public.
The clever housewife can II she wishes, re-
produce every trick Of appearances OF gfggie-