A bachelors cupboard

WHISKY Into half a glassful of shaved ice squeeze COCKTAIL a little lemon peel, to which add three dashes of gum, two dashes of bitters, one dash of absinthe, and a small glass of whisky. For whisky sling, put into a goblet containing a little fine ice, two dashes of gum and a wineglassful of good whisky. Stir and strain. '' Come, gentlemen, drink down all unkindness." — Shakespeare, VELVET Half a bottle of champagne, half a bottle of White Rock, and two ponies of brandy. Mix in a jug, and add a lump of ice. " Then it's always fair weather When good fellows get together." ROYAL Mix champagne and brandy, a quart of SHANDY the former to a pint of the latter. An- GAFF other recipe calls for a third the amount of brandy, and lest it be too strong one should experiment until he has it exactly to his own taste. A Dissertation on Drinks '' There is a devil in every berry of the grape." — The Koran. LORD Peel one lemon fine; add some white lump SALTOUN'S sugar and pour over it a glass of sherry. CLARET Then add a bottle of claret — even plain CUP ■ J- • 'U A vin ordinaire will answer — and sugar to taste; also a bottle of soda water and nutmeg, If liked. Strain and ice well. If preferred mulled, strain, heat, and serve piping hot. ''Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.'' — Byron. MISSISSIPPI One glass of brandy, half glass Jamaica PUNCH rum, and a tablespoonful of whisky, quarter of a lemon, and a tablespoonful of powdered sugar, and water to taste. Mix well and ice with shaved ice. For '* linked sweetness long drawn out," use a straw in the tall glass in which it is served. '' Wine and youth are fire upon fire.'* A New Yorker, Tom Lynch by name, and said to be " one of the best," has a few words to say in regard to drinks in general and cocktails in particular. " The only really decent drinks," he says convincingly, " can be counted on the fingers of one hand. A good imported Scotch with the peat-smoke perfume, Medford rum — and what a pity it's no longer made! — a dry, very dry, Martini cocktail, a Gordon gin rickey, and A Dissertation on Drinks the best Irish whisky — those are the best drinks that a man can take in this country, or the old country either. And, as a matter of fact, it's next to impossible to get a cocktail that is a cocktail in London or anywhere else on the other side. ** Bottled cocktails? They are a snare and a delusion. Perfect cocktails are only made with scrupulous care in measuring the ingredients. A good many men think after a time that they can measure drinks with their eye; but that is what does the mischief, for no man can do that and have his cocktails absolutely uniform. In mixing cocktails I always use a graduated measuring glass which I invented myself, and in doing that I have earned the reputation of always giving a man the same cocktail he had yesterday, or last week, or a year ago. The most popular drink to-day in New York is the * H. P. W.' cocktail, which was introduced by Harry Payne Whitney at the Ardsley Club, and later at his Adirondack camp; and the good fellows who were initiated into its seductiveness agreed then and there that it should be christened after their popular host, so here we have it : "