Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1919 — “KITCHIN KICKS” CAUSE DRY ADVOCATES CONCERN [ARTICLE]

“KITCHIN KICKS” CAUSE DRY ADVOCATES CONCERN

Washington, Feb. B.—Every man his own moonshiner —so simple a child can make it! i ' This is the- impression One gains after talking with occupants of the “mourners’ bench” in the national capital. Although five months - remain before war-time prohibition becomes effective—after which the Constitutional Amendment will become operative, probably without -giving the mourners a breathing space—Washingtonians, at least, pear to be fortifying themselves with weird formulas for the concoction of various “kitchen kicks” and “subterranean, snifters.” And it-is not improbable that Wasmgton is no exception. . For instance, you meet one of the bld timers on Pennsylvania avenue.. You,exchange condolence with ~him. He weeps copiously as he wails a requiem for the good old days whsn “personal liberty” was simply lying, around loose in slathers, waiting to be picked up. But in the midst of the dftge his face lights up with an expression not unlike that of the drowning mariner who sights a lifebelt floating within his reach. - confides, “L got something here I’m gonno try.- Sounds pretty good.” And surrept t'ously h? draws forth from his wallet the magic formr'a As a rule it runs

along something like this: “Take two pounds of corn meal and put it in a stone jug. Then put in a pound of brown: sugar,, eleven raisins, a cake of yeast and a dash of Jamaica ginger. Fill the jug with water, put a stone on the cork and bury it ip the backyard in the dark of the moon. Let it stay for three weeks and it’s then ready to serve —if shock proof glasses are used.

“Arid they say,” is the usual, comment of the old-timer, “that it’s got a kick thntM aii—arniy mule blush for shame.” . There are many arid varied oi these recipes floating around, and it is said that the government officials upon whom devolve the responsibilialready are laying their lings for raids on “kitchen stills.” - . L But if the resultant concoctions are as deadly as the formulas might indicate, there is reason to believe that they will have little to do, and that the problem, “What shall we do with our ex-bartenders?” can be easily solved. . The answer is: “Make undertakers of ’em.”