lemon and fill the glass with ginger ale that is well Iced. SODA This Is a most Innocent drink, despite COCKTAIL its name, and one that a tw^o-year-old may not hesitate to Imbibe. Fill up a long glass, then, with lemon soda, the bottled variety, and in it dash a little raspberry syrup, and top off with a thin slice of orange. FARMER'S Mayhap you may be going to have a real, DELIGHT old-fashioned country picnic, at which rural dainties are served. They deserve to be washed down with the delight of the farmer, who swallows copious drafts of this In the hayfield on a hot July 178 A BACHELOR'S CUPBOARD Temperance Drinks afternoon. It's nothing less than the " sweetened water " with which Plupy Shute regaled his friends up in Exeter in the days when the " Real Boy " penned that famous diary. Water is the basis, ginger the flavor, and molasses the sweetener. They are mixed to taste in a great stone jug, which is corked and set In a convenient brook to keep cool. LEMON- '' Pooh! " I hear you say in disgust. " As ADE if any man couldn't make lemonade without being told." But as this book may fall into the hands of a Hottentot or Malay or some other hot-house variety of bachelor, I will set down the proportion of the juice of a lemon to tw^o tablespoonfuls of sugar and one-half pint of water✪ Lemonade as being a desirable one. This may be varied by using the juice of orange, lime, or grape-fruit, in which case, of course, it will be the other sort of Ade (not Hoosier). An abuse of ice at once destroys the effect desired, besides being dangerous. A liquid set on ice and slowly chilled is far more to be recommended than the drink in w^hich ice floats, but it is not everyone who will admit this truth. Than plain lemonade, made from the juice of the lemon, sweetened sparsely with sugar and diluted with water, and finally cooled on ice, there is no drink more acceptable and cooling in the heat of the day. It ranks before the long list of acidulated drinks and gaseous mineral waters, but it, too, falls into disrepute when too liberally imbibed. It is said 179 A BACHELOR'S CUPBOARD Temperance Drinks to be lowering in its effects, but such an assertion is nonsense, unless, as Is said, it is drunk too freely. Taking the average, it would seem the plainer drinks have a larger share of popularity, and soda and milk is one of the very first favorites. To be perfect It re- quires a can of Ice to be placed In the milk and that the soda should have lain for some time on the Ice bloc^. These are the simplest, perhaps best, and certainly cheapest of the drinks made at home by the unskilled amateur. 1 80 CHAPTER XVIII " Costly tKy tabit as thy purse can buy. But not expressed in fancy ; rich, not gaudy ; For the apparel oft claims a man.' — Shakespeare. Once It " took nine tailors to make a man," and no less a person than Byron vouched for this ancient He. Nowadays, It takes a Man as Is a Man to make a Tailor, and a Fat Bank Account to pay him.

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lemon and fill the glass with ginger ale that is well Iced. SODA This is a most innocent drink, despite its name, and one that a two-year-old may not hesitate to imbibe. Fill up a long glass, then, with lemon soda, the bottled variety, and in it dash a little raspberry syrup, and top off with a thin slice of orange. FARMER'S DELIGHT Mayhap you may be going to have a real, old-fashioned country picnic, at which rural dainties are served. They deserve to be washed down with the delight of the farmer, who swallows copious drafts of this in the hayfield on a hot July Temperance Drinks afternoon. It's nothing less than the "sweetened water" with which Plupy Shute regaled his friends up in Exeter in the days when the "Real Boy" penned that famous diary. Water is the basis, ginger the flavor, and molasses the sweetener. They are mixed to taste in a great stone jug, which is corked and set In a convenient brook to keep cool. LEMON-ADE "Pooh!" I hear you say in disgust. "As if any man couldn't make lemonade withoutt being told." But as this book may fall into the hands of a Hottentot or Malay or some other hot-house variety of bachelor, I will set down the proportion of the juice of a lemon to two tablespoonfuls of sugar and one-half pint of water as being a desirable one. This may be varied by using the juice of orange, lime, or grapefruit, in which case, of course, it will be the other sort of Ade (not Hoosier). An abuse of ice at once destroys the effect desired, besides being dangerous. A liquid set on ice and slowly chilled is far more to be recommended than the drink in which ice floats, but it is not everyone who will admit this truth. Than plain lemonade, made from the juice of the lemon, sweetened sparsely with sugar and diluted with water, and finally cooled on ice, there is no drink more acceptable and cooling in the heat of the day. It ranks before the long list of acidulated drinks and gaseous mineral waters, but it, too, falls into disrepute when too liberally imbibed. It is said TemperanceIt is said to be lowering in its effects, but such an assertion is nonsense, unless, as is said, it is drunk too freely.Taking the average, it would seem the plainer drinks have a larger share of popularity, and soda and milk is one of the very first favorites. To be perfect it requires a can of ice to be placed in the milk and that the soda should have lain for some time on the ice block. These are the simplest, perhaps best, and certainly cheapest of the drinks made at home by the unskilled amateur. 1 80 CHAPTER XVIII " Costly tKy tabit as thy purse can buy. But not expressed in fancy ; rich, not gaudy ; For the apparel oft claims a man.' — Shakespeare. Once It " took nine tailors to make a man," and no less a person than Byron vouched for this ancient He. Nowadays, It takes a Man as Is a Man to make a Tailor, and a Fat Bank Account to pay him.

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