Show HOT DRINK HABIT The American Is gradually learning the art artof of oC drinking said the communicative communicative bartender bartender It has taken him a along along along long time but he Is now no beginning to come t to his senses lIow How do we notice It Oh in a great many ways For In instance In- In stance Just as on one Illustration there Is the decline of or the time hot drink habit It H. used lsd to be that Just jUt as soon as the raw chill chilly days set In there would be bc a call lot lor hot Scotch and amid various punches with hot water Behind every bar l you would Ee see pee a highly polished silver sil sll- Il- Il ver vel or 01 nickel boiler with an alcohol lamp burning under It Men would come In In shiver a lIlt hit shrug their thell shoulders shoulders ders and call c for fOI hot The They would sip It and go out again Sain into th the chill all air antI and ten chances to one catch a n severe cold The habit Is dying out and Its It's a good timing thing The water hot-water tank is no longer lone ver very much In ill evidence evi evi- dence deuce and men are learning a thing or om two I could cite other Instances In of my theory theor that Americans are learning learning- how to drink but hut what's the use use Th They y are arc evident e to any anyone one who keeps hi his eyes ces open Philadelphia Record |