Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1909 — The United States Is a Nation Of Many Different Drinks. [ARTICLE]

The United States Is a Nation Of Many Different Drinks.

The population of the United States is cosmopolitan or rather this is a composite nation. Hence it is not surprising that “dry” conditions are difficult to compass in all the states and territories. Many immigrants bring to America recipes for the liquor -with which they hre most familiar in their native land, and so there is variety, without limit. It is said that more than six thousand intoxicating drinks can be concocted by a skillful bartender. Many of these imported compounds are so “intense” that it is fortunate that the American compounder is slow to introduce them to his patrons. For instance, there is the “mescal,” a Mexican atrocity, which goes down (it is said) like a cactus ball. Another abomination is the “cawasha", distilled from sugar cane in Jamaica, of ; which a haccent's worth is sufficient to start a feud. The “bak-no-mashalo” is a Phllipine concoction, and the “sam” is another, both of which have knocked out more soldiers in the Philippines than can be traced to the native bolo.